Controversy

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Royal Silks
4. The Commissioner’s Wife 3
5. Patiala 5
6. Silver Cloud Tea Estate 8
7. Haridwar 10
8. Mussoorie 11
9. On the Antalya Road 12
10. Family Portrait 14
11. Moths 15
12. Suttee 17
13. Bed Tea 20
14. Written Under Bark
15. Afternoon Tea in Wales 23
16. Pigeons 25
17. Kingston 27
18. Laki Penan 29
19. Shalimar Hotel 31
20. Connie’s Story 32
21. Tree Rings 34
22. San Sebastian 36
23. A Family 38
24. Huckleberry Breeze 40
25. The Bone Machine 42
26. Ancestors 44
27. Controversy 46
28. Shallal 48
29. Along the Water Paths
30. Salmon Spawning in the Adams River 53
31. In Those Days 55
32. Ste. Anne de Bellevue 57
33. Maidens with Green Hair 58
34. Granville Island 60
35. Swimming into the Forest 62
36. Changeling 63
37. Poem for Seals 65
38. Sunflowers 67
39. Sky Dance 68
40. Her Story 69
41. The Third Wife 71
42. A Blue Jug 73
43. Listening 74
44. Old Women 75
45. Intertidal Heart 76
46. Garments of Light
47. Aperture 81
48. I Follow My Body Like a Path 83
49. Kasauli 84
50. Exile 85
51. A Few Words to Omar Khayyam 87
52. Konya 89
53. Caravan 90
54. Thanksgiving 92
55. Hallowe’en 94
56. Lost Pasture 95
57. God Sings to the Elephant’s Baby 96
58. Too Far 97
59. Bone Song 99
60. Madonna of the Stairs 101
61. Note 105
62. Acknowledgments 107