Hearsay

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. One
4. A Window Seat 3
5. Hide and Seek 4
6. Remembering Father and Son 5
7. Monologue for Two 6
8. Sizes 8
9. Words Across a Ouija Board 9
10. Before We Had Words 10
11. She 11
12. Visitation Rites 12
13. Question and Answer 13
14. The Departure 14
15. The Visit 15
16. Two
17. Love Among the Ruins 19
18. Saturday Matinees 20
19. The Kiss 21
20. Hearsay 22
21. A Second Chance 23
22. Sleeping Froggy 24
23. From Album Leaves 25
24. Egyptian Funerary Statue: IAI–IB and Khuaut Fourth Dynasty, 2530–2480 B.C. 30
25. Sweet and Wholesome as a Carrot 32
26. Three
27. Sketches 35
28. Wes 36
29. The Parrot-Beau 37
30. By His Own Hand 39
31. A Minor Role 40
32. A Writer for the Forward 42
33. Portrait in Ink 44
34. First Things in Leviathan 45
35. Filippo’s Palace 47
36. Four
37. February Letter 51
38. Dining Alone 52
39. Try Not to Say It 53
40. Triage 55
41. Western 56
42. Two Good-byes to Shirley 57
43. A Very Fine Cat 59
44. A Bad Few Weeks 60
45. The Ripples 61
46. Pushkin Insomniac: Two Translations 62
47. Introduction and Allegro 64
48. Last Things 67
49. Five
50. Traffic 71
51. Late Nite Checkout 72
52. Howard’s Questions 73
53. The Night Garden 74
54. The Noodle-Eaters 75
55. Emigres’ Café 77
56. Expatriates’ Lunch 79
57. Children’s Massacre: 20.4.99 80
58. September 11, 2001 81
59. Black History 82
60. from The Sayings of Fabius Minimus 83
61. The Morning After the New Millennium 84
62. Recombinant DNB 86
63. West End 87
64. Six
65. On the Proposed End of Poetry 93
66. Poetry at Night 94
67. My Chary Muse Defended 95
68. Dropping Bricks 96
69. The Contortionist 97
70. Occidental Errors: Seascape, Song Dynasty 99
71. Chardin: The Jar of Apricots 100
72. Naked Men Fighting: A Drawing at Tributed to Raphael 101
73. Tapio Wirkkala at the Design Exchange 104
74. A Kind of Life 107
75. Sharing With Martin Luther 108
76. Epilogue: At David Mason’s 109
77. Acknowledgments 112