Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Dung Beetle 1
5. The Little Field of Self 4
6. In My Own Language 6
7. A Rewriting of the Shore 9
8. If All I Do Today Is Change 11
9. Two Figures 15
10. You Take Me to Where 17
11. Guile 19
12. Oh Let Me Be Quiet and N"ear 20
13. Acedia 21
14. This Is the Voice of this Life 22
15. Diapause 23
16. Light Against the Wall 24
17. Silva 26
18. Theology 28
19. Eating Apricots 32
20. Coda 33
21. New World 34
22. Lying on the Bed with the Window Open 37
23. Odd Pieces 39
24. Passion 41
25. Rain 42
26. What Was It? 44
27. A Mild Turning of the Earth 46
28. Abbey 48
29. Stereoscope 51
30. While You Were Away 52
31. Epigraph 54
32. Catalogue of Notebooks 55
33. If I Could Ask You 60
34. Afterword 61