Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Life Pig xi
5. One
6. The Hebrew Ouija Board 3
7. The Hiawatha Recitation 5
8. The Look 7
9. Trajan’s Column 10
10. Moon Landing, 1969 13
11. Ghost of the Old Arcade 15
12. Let Me Hear You 17
13. Thanks for Nothing 19
14. Two
15. Vantage 29
16. The Killing 30
17. Low Tide 31
18. Green Thought 33
19. Toward Language 35
20. Stele 37
21. Frieze 40
22. Dog Heart 41
23. Scat 43
24. On the Greenway behind My Old House 45
25. In the Hotel Room 47
26. Present 49
27. Three
28. On the Beach 53
29. Her Closet 55
30. Dressing Table 56
31. The Bedroom 58
32. The Pig 60
33. Heavy Snow 62
34. Goodness and Mercy 63
35. Sweetness and Night 66
36. Accident 68
37. Mother Palinode 69
38. The Weeper 71
39. The Last Outing 73
40. Archimedes 75
41. The Sibyl’s Nursing Home 77
42. Terminal Restlessness 79
43. Enough 80
44. Visitation 82
45. Coda
46. Death Hog 85
47. Notes 87