Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Foreword vii
3. Contents xi
4. This Morning Here 1
5. On an East Wind from the Wars 2
6. On an Old Advertisement and After a Photograph by Alfred Stieglitz 3
7. Philodendron 4
8. Imperial Song for Warmth 5
9. Prison Song 7
10. The So-called Wild Horses of the Water 8
11. Landfall 9
12. Sixteen Lines on Marching 11
13. Love Song: I and Thou 12
14. The Natural Enemies of the Conch 13
15. Importation of Landscapes 16
16. Portrait 17
17. Oasis 18
18. What Happened? What Do You Expect? 19
19. On Hurricane Jackson 20
20. Poem 21
21. The Branches of Water or Desire 22
22. Memorial Service for the Invasion Beach Where the Vacation in the Flesh Is Over 25
23. Portrait 27
24. Mockery Against the Irish Censorship 28
25. Weeds as Partial Survivors 29
26. The Mirror Perilous 30
27. Letter to Eve 31
28. Against France: On the Algerian Pleasures of Entity 32
29. Funeral Oration for a Mouse 33
30. I. Enigma: Calm: Addressed to the Air 35
31. II. Comment on I 35
32. How We Heard the Name 36
33. Morning Song 37
34. Orpheus 38
35. Tribute to Kafka for Someone Taken 39
36. Notes Toward a Spring Offensive 40
37. Transcribed Conversation in Praise of Cows 41
38. Actual Vision of Morning's Extrusion 42
39. Life Comparison 43
40. Cooled Heels Lament Against Frivolity, the Mask of Despair 44
41. On Being Unhappily in Love with Reason 45
42. Portrait from the Infantry 46
43. On an Architect 47
44. Letter to Donald Fall 49
45. Thesis, Antithesis, and Nostalgia 50
46. Triptych 51
47. General Prothalamion for Wartimes 52
48. On the Elk, Unwitnessed 53
49. Grace for Thursday 54
50. Stutterer 55
51. Holiday 56
52. On the Supposed Immorality of Orchids 57
53. Memories of Verdun 58
54. Wall, Cave, and Pillar Statements, After Asoka 59