Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. I
4. Directive 3
5. The Branch-Breaker 4
6. Bleed 6
7. The Opening of the Field 7
8. Laughter = Ipecac 8
9. Development 10
10. The Humans 12
11. Aunts 13
12. Goat 14
13. Scorsese Teaches His Kid to Crosshatch 15
14. Under the Skin 17
15. Ars Poetica 18
16. Flash 19
17. Saltspring Ferry 20
18. On High 21
19. II
20. Pelt 25
21. There Was Light 26
22. Half-Pastoral 27
23. Other Side of the Orchard 28
24. Brute 29
25. Rock Garden 30
26. Cold Pastoral 31
27. In Plain Sight 32
28. Micro-Gothic 33
29. Low Tidings 34
30. The Bottom of the Sea 35
31. Resolution 36
32. Very Rare 37
33. Extra-Real 38
34. Bucolic 39
35. Cone, Twig, Camel 40
36. III
37. Pre-Election 43
38. The Opposite 45
39. Here Comes Some Beauty 48
40. Day Off 49
41. Vesper 50
42. Give 52
43. No Charge 53
44. Teardown 54
45. Opportunistic Mystic 56
46. Concentrate 57
47. White on White 58
48. Snap 59
49. Better to Die of Too Much 60
50. Super, Natural 62
51. Franciscana, Santa Teresita 63
52. Blast Radius 64
53. Apology 73
54. No Chaser 76
55. IV
56. More Truly and More Strange 79
57. Decreation 80
58. Never Changes to Stop 81
59. Fawn 82
60. Unforgetting 83
61. Deism, Penticton 84
62. On Comfort 85
63. The Most Intimate 86
64. Washington 87
65. Verges, Now and Forever 88
66. On High (II) 99
67. Notes 101
68. Acknowledgments 103