Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Thresholds
4. The Coiled Shell 3
5. George Washington Crosses the Delaware in P.S. 140 5
6. Phonebooth Nostalgia 7
7. In Memory I Lie 8
8. White and Black 10
9. Murano Glass 12
10. Missed Connection 13
11. Field Reports 14
12. Waiting Room 15
13. Sonnets to Orpheus, 1:21 16
14. The Basswood Bedstead 17
15. Four Brick Houses 19
16. Holdings 21
17. Openwork 23
18. Transplant 25
19. Repurposing 26
20. Roommates
21. Navigating Springwater Township 31
22. Framing the Cosmos 33
23. Who First 35
24. Transmigrations 36
25. Proserpina 37
26. Commuter, on the Wing 39
27. Grounded 40
28. Creature Longings 41
29. Serpents on a Walnut Crosier 43
30. Embrace 45
31. The Gate 46
32. Approaching the Soul 48
33. White over Blue 49
34. Old Soul 50
35. Placentia Island 51
36. Paper Covers Rock 54
37. At Home with the Family 56
38. Sonnets to Orpheus, 2:1 58
39. Shared Accommodations 59
40. Flyways
41. Polar Visions 63
42. At the Corner of Oil and Beef 66
43. Tweet 68
44. Sacred Space 69
45. The Guide Speaks 71
46. St. Francis in Manhattan 74
47. The House of Myth: In Memory of Northrop Frye 76
48. Fresco Magic 79
49. Club of Rome 82
50. A Brief Tour of Murano 83
51. Detroit 85
52. Reincarnations 86
53. Mandelstam's Notebooks 88
54. Renewals 89
55. Middelburg, Zeeland 90
56. The Tree on Rue Descartes 91
57. 1001 Nights in Burano 92
58. Two Long-Distance Flyers 94
59. Noli Me Tangere 95
60. The Kingfisher Petroglyph 96
61. Enchantments 98
62. Notes 101
63. Acknowledgments 103