Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Constellation 1
4. Romance on Reading Meng Chiao's "Sadness of the Gorges" 4
5. On Climbing the Big Pagoda in Changan 5
6. Map 6
7. Signature 7
8. A History of Style 9
9. A Choice of Color 10
10. Message to the Pagans 11
11. Ars Antiqua 12
12. After Leopardi 13
13. Danae 14
14. Swallow Song 15
15. Baucis and Philemon 16
16. Poem 17
17. Ode, Garrance 18
18. Monet 19
19. Debussy 21
20. Monet at Giverny 22
21. Paris 23
22. Parisian Rondel 24
23. From the Forest 25
24. Photograph by Kertesz 26
25. Photograph of Bonn at Christmas 27
26. The Snow Leopard 28
27. Atget 29
28. Spinoza 30
29. Breton Landscape 31
30. Ma Mère L'Oye 32
31. China 33
32. Hasidim 34
33. Psychopomp 35
34. Two Poems in Autumn 36
35. The Sun in Winter 38
36. Trace 39
37. The Rock Garden 40
38. Soon It Will Be 41
39. An 18th Century Motif 42
40. Divertimento 43
41. Huntress 44
42. She Has Waited 45
43. How Their Fingertips 46
44. Good Luck 47
45. The Minor Risk of the Snail 48
46. Mother of Eros 49
47. Wind 50
48. Music 51
49. The Garden in Winter 52
50. November 7 53
51. The Perfume 54
52. A Photograph of Zapata 55
53. Paideuma 56
54. The Father 57
55. La Règie du Jeu 58
56. Sainte 59
57. Sacred Love 60
58. Figura 61
59. Nothing to Terrain 62
60. Prelude 63
61. Delicatessen 64
62. Texas 65
63. Rime 66
64. The Moon 67
65. The Greek 68
66. Measure 69
67. What Is This Now 70
68. Young Master 71
69. Vermeer's Woman Asleep 72
70. The Roman Portrait Bust 73
71. Casanova's Mother 74
72. Ballad of the Beautiful Ladies 75
73. The Life in Art 76
74. Ousia 77
75. Evening Star 78
76. Ontology of the Wind 79
77. Erebus 80
78. Stoned 81
79. To Choose 82
80. From Tacitus 83
81. Hard Labor 84
82. Louis Zukofsky 85
83. Psalm of Africa 86
84. Alexandrian Idyll 87
85. The Spring of Bandusia 88
86. Soracte 89
87. 1717 90
88. D'Orfeo 91
89. The Coachman's Dream 92
90. To Mallarmé 93
91. To Baudelaire 94
92. To Roland Barthes 95
93. Light of the World 96
94. Simplicitas Syntactica 97
95. Tomb Murals of the Han and T'ang 98
96. On Hearing The Musical Offering 99
97. Begin Anywhere 101
98. March 17 102
99. And Yet I Hardly Notice 103
100. Poem 104
101. A Certain World 105
102. Postscript 106