Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. 1.
5. Time In a Brown House 3
6. The Pink Car 5
7. Thirteenth Round 7
8. 2.
9. Summer 1935 11
10. The Man Who Is Not at the Table 13
11. Olivier Bergmann 15
12. Poetry Failure 17
13. The Sunny Ridge 19
14. Head Wound 21
15. Scale 23
16. Summer Planning 25
17. 3.
18. Strawberry Milkshake 29
19. Contents 32
20. Cotton Club Classics 34
21. Nights at Ruby's 36
22. 4.
23. Against Realism 41
24. Lunch with Big Steve 43
25. Trumpet Player, I963 46
26. The Beloved 48
27. Not Us 50
28. 5.
29. The Schuylkill 55
30. A Good Thing 56
31. 18,000 CDs 58
32. Campaign Promise 59
33. Shnordink's Butterfly 60
34. Big Picture 62
35. New Thing 63
36. 6.
37. Separated Father 67
38. Divorced Fathers and Pizza Crusts 69
39. Heavy Trash 71
40. The Fedge 73
41. 7.
42. Parkersburg 77
43. The Issue Here 79
44. Seven Baskets 80
45. Seven Boxes 83
46. Schnetzer Day 85
47. 8.
48. You and Yours 89
49. Dennis Pravy Speaks 91
50. Sourdough 93
51. Landscape #11 94
52. Nebraska Novel 97
53. Bookstore Dazzle 99
54. The Opaque 101
55. Route 302 104
56. 9.
57. Why Must We Write? 109
58. The Missing Poem 111