Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Table of Contents v
3. Foreword vii
4. Biographical Note viii
5. Introduction ix
6. A Poem for You, Leaving Winnipeg 1
7. anaeurysm 3
8. “& we are skinbags of heated water dreaming” 4
9. in his tangerine skin 5
10. the love song of j l krafchenko or the trans canada in (trance crypt 6
11. Sonya Orlowsky 8
12. Paul sd 10
13. Exorcism 11
14. I think “ego”; ergo I am 13
15. labiarinth 15
16. anatomy of love 16
17. prairie romance 17
18. behind the door 18
19. moon musings 20
20. holy cow 24
21. inner ear 25
22. my eye 26
23. melodious rhyme 27
24. he replies to his critics 29
25. breathless 30
26. “In Germany cooley is a migrant labourer” 31
27. “Wished we had the camera for David” 32
28. winnipeg in winter 33
29. a series of shocking pre-positions 34
30. “mother tongue” 35
31. “this on remembrance weekend” 36
32. “bodies are” 37
33. jack’s dictionary of cunning linguists 38
34. blood brothers 42
35. red men ace 43
36. echolalia 44
37. the red emption of blood 45
38. “& not that he’s wrong” 46
39. “& a crate of apples could i suppose” 48
40. “& listening to night sticky with sweat” 49
41. after words 51
42. Selected Cooley Poems: Sources 59
43. Books in the Laurier Poetry Series 62