Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Foreword ix
4. One
5. Donation 5
6. Becoming Kansas 6
7. That Crazy Moon 8
8. Andante Con Moto 9
9. The Shoulder Where it Belongs 12
10. Of Being and Essence 13
11. The Execution 14
12. Logo 15
13. The Borgo of the Holy Ghost 16
14. Easter in Belgrade, 1999 18
15. A.D. 19
16. At John Brown’s Grave 20
17. Diva 22
18. The Broken Gull 23
19. Two
20. Obsessive 27
21. Limelight 28
22. Mismaloya Bay (Mexico: 1977) 29
23. Speaking in Tongues 30
24. My Father’s Son 32
25. Broken 33
26. Our Lady of Abundance 34
27. For Barbara & Vincent 35
28. Against Stevens 37
29. I Saw the World End 38
30. Nietzsche at Bayreuth: 1876 39
31. Das Lied Von Der Erde 40
32. Brindisi 41
33. The Goldberg Variations 42
34. Chronic 43
35. Blessing 44
36. First Morning Light 45
37. An Exercise for Lovers 47
38. What to do What to Say 48
39. Three
40. Creation (Rodin) 51
41. ICI (Joan Mitchell) 52
42. Apology (Willem de Kooning) 53
43. Gray and Green (Mark Rothko) 54
44. Autumn Rhythm 55
45. Pieta (Michelangelo) 56
46. Annunciation (Fra Angelico, Cell 3, Convent of San Marco, Florence) 57
47. Late Reading 59
48. Where i Would Not Go 61
49. My Brother’s Ghost 62
50. Just by Deciding it 63
51. Just the Facts 65
52. All Roads Lead to Kansas 66
53. Roses 68
54. At the West Street Piers 69
55. Heaven Reassigned 70
56. What Comes Through Hearing 72
57. The Dead 73
58. About the Author 74