Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. A Thousand Words
4. Self-Portrait: Threads from an Art Forger’s Diary 3
5. Doe in a Mint Green Clearing 13
6. Leaves or Paper or Wood 17
7. Edge of the Fountainebleau Forest 23
8. The Pink Undertones 28
9. The Drapes Floating All Around Me 31
10. Take It Back: An Ode to Shrimp Woman 35
11. A Thousand Words 39
12. Dead Skin Dust 43
13. Even Venus had to Learn to Love her Face 47
14. Ode to the Woman on the Bravo Espresso Coffee Can in Which I Store My Pens 50
15. The Captives Remain Serene 53
16. The World, Green and Disarming
17. All the God-Sized Fruit 59
18. By the Still Life Painter’s Wife 62
19. Aftermath of the Still Life 64
20. Detail of Tulip 66
21. Inventing Great Schools of Fish 68
22. Still Life with Greasy Noodles: A Travelogue, a Work Poem 71
23. Poses of Statuary 75
24. Out of the Sumptuous Chaos 78
25. Into the Kitchens of the Burning City 81
26. The World, Green and Disarming 84
27. The Artemisia Gentileschi Poems
28. Fringes of Plot 89
29. What a Woman Can Do 93
30. A World Without Glass 96
31. Cooked Water 98
32. Perspective 101
33. Shade Garden of Your Bones 103
34. Emerald, Amethyst, Opal 109
35. Notes to the Poems 111
36. Acknowledgments 113
37. List of Illustrations 115