Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents ix
3. Fiery Moments
4. Last Train to Wyncote 5
5. Yes, They Must Have Been Blossoming Apple-Trees 7
6. Rigor Mortis 11
7. A Very Big Fish 13
8. These Roses, Those Thorns 15
9. You Spoke of Grapes 17
10. Resisting Analysis
11. Smudged; I Am Love 21
12. Of Fire, of Ash 24
13. Magnolia 26
14. Who But the Dead? 28
15. What Slender Birds
16. Refusing Persephone's Bowl of Fruit 33
17. Ins Rechte Licht 36
18. Given to Unnatural Lust 39
19. The Air Thick with Gadflies 42
20. Sipping a Glass of Chianti 45
21. So Many Fishes, So Many Loaves of Bread 48
22. Its Own Troubadour 51
23. un-UNKing the UNK
24. Not in Her Lovely 55
25. I Held Out My Hands 58
26. Among the Ruins 64
27. Angels Have Feasted 68
28. Beauty Made Me Stronger 68
29. Newsreels
30. Hilda in the Orchard 73
31. Wolf Is a Wolf 76
32. His Head, a Pomegranate 78
33. Richard Mansfield’s Last Performance 81
34. Insane, Always – 83
35. The Myth Can Not Be Localized 88
36. Conversing with the Dead
37. Conversing with the Dead 93
38. The Myth Turned 96
39. Notes 99
40. Acknowledgments 105