Natural History

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Acknowledgments v
3. Contents xi
4. I.
5. The Shallows 3
6. Everyday Things 4
7. Book of Hours 6
8. Dream Lecture, June 7
9. Sex and Herodotus 9
10. Pastorale 11
11. Natural History 13
12. Queen of a Small Country 14
13. Melon Rind, Brain Coral 17
14. Magnetic Fields 18
15. The Garden of Acclimatization 19
16. Of 22
17. II.
18. And 25
19. Dream Lectures 26
20. Passage Overland 32
21. Two Rodin Torsos 33
22. Habit, Those Yards 35
23. The Corner of Delicious and Jonathan Streets 37
24. Long Island Real Estate: Great Neck 39
25. Full Gutters in Beverly Hills 40
26. Piranesi in L.A. 42
27. The Roman Baths at Chesters 44
28. Grounds 45
29. The Rich's Laundry 47
30. Chekhov in Translation 48
31. III.
32. There, There 59
33. Tristan on Radio 60
34. Eurydice in Asylum 62
35. To Market 64
36. Graces 65
37. Second Movement: Adagio 67
38. Laundry 69
39. Life Drawing 71
40. This Underwater Room Where You Swim, Scaled 73
41. Precipitation 74
42. Exposures 76
43. To Speak of Water Music 80