Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents ix
3. Metaphor 3
4. Seeing Red
5. Controlled Burn 7
6. Delivering The News 9
7. Steers 10
8. Twist 11
9. Land Of Youth 12
10. The Goal 16
11. Ornithology 17
12. The Other Foot 22
13. Three Cows 23
14. Cold Shoulder 24
15. Feline 25
16. Synchronized Swimmers 28
17. Perfect Fit 29
18. Tall Tales 30
19. Memory 31
20. How It Ends 32
21. Letting Go 33
22. Outside The Wake 34
23. Thaw 35
24. Weathering 36
25. Hermit Crabs 41
26. Seeing Red 42
27. Envoi 43
28. Sailing from An Island 44
29. The Wide World
30. The Rising 47
31. Sleight of Hand 48
32. andré kertész: Two Photographs 49
33. Cortona 50
34. Au Chat Noir (1883) 51
35. Blue Note Cats 52
36. Up at Minton's 54
37. Serge Chaloff 55
38. Stars Fell on Alabama 57
39. Mythology 58
40. At Mcnello's 63
41. Time Was, When I Sported 64
42. After Ó Bruadair 65
43. Maynooth, 1822 67
44. An Slatóir 68
45. Dánta Grádha 69
46. After Petrarch 71
47. Red and Green 72
48. The Fall 73
49. La Tzigane 74
50. Partners 75
51. Smoke Signals 76
52. Ellipsis 77
53. Bedroom Suite 78
54. Notes 85
55. Acknowledgments 87