Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Table of Contents v
3. Foreword vii
4. Biographical Note viii
5. Introduction xi
6. Days: Construction 1
7. Picketing Supermarkets 2
8. Wayman in Love 3
9. The Country of Everyday: Literary Criticism 4
10. The Factory Hour 6
11. The Old Power 8
12. Industrial Music 10
13. Factory Time 12
14. Garrison 15
15. Friday Night in Early September at Morris and Sara Wayman’s Farm, Roseneath, Ontario 21
16. White Hand 23
17. Silos 25
18. Paper, Scissors, Stone 27
19. The Face of Jack Munro 29
20. A Cursing Poem: This Poem Wants Gordon Shrum to Die 1971 43
21. The Poet 46
22. Defective Parts of Speech: Official Errata 47
23. Did I Miss Anything? 48
24. The Man Who Logged the West Ridge 49
25. For William Stafford (1914–1993) 51
26. War on a Round Planet 53
27. Cup 55
28. Epithalamium for a Former Lover 56
29. Calgary 59
30. Postmodern 911 61
31. Mt. Gimli Pashtun 64
32. Air Support 68
33. Whistle 70
34. The White Dogs 73
35. Minutes 75
36. Breath 77
37. Work and Silence 79
38. Acknowledgements 87
39. Books in the Laurier Poetry Series 91