Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Coyote xiii
5. One
6. Bit: An Ode with the Rolling Stones Playing in the Background 3
7. Unsolicited Elegy 4
8. Lovers 6
9. Ode to the Wind 7
10. For Orleans 9
11. Two Easy Odes 10
12. The Blue-Eyed Giant, the Miniature Woman, and the Honeysuckle 12
13. Her Choir 14
14. Dallas Skinheads 15
15. Two
16. Medicine Show 21
17. The Blue Balloon 22
18. The Toad 23
19. Between 56 and 57 24
20. Grief 26
21. XI 27
22. You Were Not Hanged, and It Was Not Science 28
23. Crying 30
24. 1621–1627 31
25. Three
26. To Love Thrown Like a Rope 35
27. Dilettantes 37
28. Dinner Party in the South: A Vision 38
29. Damned 40
30. Medicine Show 41
31. It Happens 42
32. Several Histories 43
33. Embers of an Ode 45
34. Father to Son 46
35. Four
36. To the Sound of a String as It Snaps 51
37. Medicine Show 54
38. Debate with His Heart 55
39. Quatrains 57
40. Ah! Birthday! 58
41. Fragment 59
42. Made of Coral 60
43. Ballade 62
44. Veritas 63
45. Notes 65