Waiting for Happy

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. Introduction xiii
5. Yoke in His Youth
6. At the School for the Deaf 1
7. Mutterings over the Crib of a Deaf Child 4
8. Like the Hully-Gully but Not So Slow 5
9. My Family Is Unhappy 19
10. The Wrestled Angel
11. The Sentry of Portoferraio 25
12. Black Lightning 28
13. The Lace Maker 29
14. Lying Alone in the Dismal Winter Mornings 30
15. The Freaks at Spurgin Road Field 34
16. Finch the Spastic Speaks 35
17. In Body, a Passenger, and Rumpled
18. Charwoman 47
19. Veteran)s Hospital 50
20. Visit to the Institute for the Blind 52
21. Stutterer 54
22. The Game 55
23. The Stroke 56
24. The Eye (Part II) 57
25. Beam in the Eye
26. The Ones That Are Thrown Out 59
27. Average Waves in Unprotected Waters 62
28. The Street 69
29. Beating and Beatitude 80
30. Silences 88
31. The Glen 90
32. The Grasshopper)s Burden 101
33. The Sacrifice 113
34. An Unrung Bell
35. The Handicapped 119
36. How Stump Stood in the Water 122
37. A Late Elegy for a Baseball Player 123
38. Seated Nude 124
39. Wrestling with Angels 131
40. After Being Paralyzed from the Neck Down for Twenty Years) Mr. Wallace Gets a Chin-Operated Motorized Wheelchair 132
41. Recovery Song 133
42. Stumpfoot on 42nd Street 134
43. 9:00 A.M. at Broadway and Walnut on Your Birthday 136
44. Bleeder 137
45. Waiting for Happy 139
46. Saint Flannery 144
47. Pizarro Teaches the Mentally Retarded to Swim 145
48. To One Deaf 146