Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Table of Contents v
3. Foreword xi
4. Biographical Note xiii
5. Several Points of Attention Regarding Nelson Ball xv
6. From With Issa: Poems 1964–1971 (1991) 1
7. From The Concrete Air [1971–1972] (1996) 13
8. From Bird Tracks on Hard Snow (1994) 21
9. From Almost Spring (1999) 29
10. From At the Edge of the Frog Pond (2004) 36
11. From In This Thin Rain (2012) 45
12. From Some Mornings (2014) 54
13. Uncollected Poems 64
14. Me and My Poetry: An Autobiographical Essay 75
15. Acknowledgements 83
16. Books Books in in the the Laurier Laurier Poetry Poetry SeriesSeries 85