Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Acknowledgments v
3. Contents ix
4. The Triumph Of Love
5. The Funeral Day 3
6. Three Songs from Paintings 4
7. Songs of Innocence 7
8. Ballet Academy 8
9. Ariadne 9
10. Paolo and Francesca 11
11. Waiting for Birds 12
12. On the Will to Believe 13
13. Learning the Table 14
14. Teratocarcinoma 15
15. The Homecoming of Bran 16
16. King Mark's Dream 18
17. From the Diary of Willard Gibbs 19
18. Photograph from Luzon, 1899 21
19. His Kind-Hearted Woman 23
20. Leonce Pontellier 25
21. Rich Blind Minotaur Led by a Girl 43
22. Winter: Hunters in Snow 44
23. In the Subway 45
24. After the Thunderstorm 46
25. Pueblo Fairgrounds
26. The Zeppelin Watchers 51
27. Robert Falcon Scott Enters Paradise 53
28. The Plague-Maiden 54
29. Andrew Ramsay at the Somme 56
30. Plains of Peace 57
31. Sonnets for Mary of Nazareth 66
32. Nocturne 69
33. St. Francis and the Wolf 70
34. Trucks on a Hill in Winter 72
35. Thomaston Dam 73
36. Notes 75