Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix
4. INTRODUCTION 1
5. Ancestors
6. PROSE
7. My Father’s God 9
8. The Actor Prepares 22
9. The Night Maggie Saw God and Sal Barnum Too 29
10. Sizes 35
11. An Etruscan Catechism 41
12. Lamb Soup 54
13. Marco’s Marcoroni 73
14. The Guest 76
15. POETRY
16. East River Nocturne 93
17. On the Square 100
18. Autobiography 101
19. Tea at Aunt’s 102
20. Cento at Dawn 104
21. L’Esiliatu (The Exile) 105
22. The Cellar Twenty Years Later 106
23. Minotaur 107
24. The Garden of the Apocalypse 108
25. In the Golden Sala 109
26. Father’s Days 111
27. In Tunis I Walked through Halfaween 112
28. Shinto Mama 113
29. Spanish Steps 115
30. Nana’s Earrings 117
31. The Sacred and Profane
32. PROSE
33. Against Gravity 119
34. My Friend, Angelo Ralph Orlandella 132
35. That Winter Evening 141
36. Sanctifying Grace 153
37. POETRY
38. Luisa and Buffalo Bill 165
39. The Concept of God 169
40. My Father at Eighty-five 170
41. The Caves of Love 171
42. Linens 173
43. Love and Anger
44. PROSE
45. The Two Uncles 175
46. The Prince of Racalmuto 182
47. Wild Heart 189
48. A Conversation with Camille Paglia 195
49. Big Heart 209
50. Permanent Waves 220
51. Perfect Hatred 233
52. POETRY
53. Inside the Inside of the Moon 241
54. Why I Drive Alfa Romeos 245
55. Walking My Son on the Beach 246
56. The Skeleton’s Defense of Carnality 247
57. Birth and Death
58. PROSE
59. A Marvelous Feat in a Common Place 249
60. Where It Belongs 255
61. Unraveled 259
62. Mama Rose 270
63. Cairns 275
64. Card Palace 283
65. POETRY
66. Planting a Sequoia 295
67. É si riuniscono, questi vecchi . . . 299
68. Grandmother in Heaven 300
69. Art and Self
70. POETRY
71. Cape Clear 301
72. Language Lesson 304
73. Lizard-Tree 306
74. Athletes of God 307
75. Libretto 308
76. Books, how silent you are 311
77. Requiem for a Practical Possum 312
78. Self-Portrait as Woman Posed on Flowered Couch 314
79. Happenstance 315
80. War Song 316
81. About the Authors 317