Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 6
3. I. PERSONAE
4. The Chinese Insomniacs 11
5. The Gesture 12
6. The Rock-Plant Wife 13
7. Reading Aloud at Dusk in Spring 14
8. Mr. Mahoney 15
9. Pondicherry Blues 16
10. The Arrivals 18
11. Elective Affinities 19
12. Carney Elegy 20
13. Country Drive-In 21
14. Linkwood Road 22
15. The Fiction Writer 23
16. Margins of Choice 24
17. The Travelers 25
18. The Leopard-Nurser 26
19. II. POEMS
20. The Gondolas 29
21. Good Fortune of Pigeons 30
22. The Provider 31
23. The Things 32
24. There She Is 33
25. The Dream Habitués 35
26. Two Escudos 37
27. The Shell Eyes of Idols 40
28. Language as an Escape from the Discrete 41
29. Simon 42
30. Tears 43
31. Winter Forecast 45
32. Spread of Mrs. Mobey’s Lawn 46
33. Rainy Night at the Writers’ Colony 47
34. Breaking and Entering 48
35. Ascetic’s Soliloquy 49
36. How We Learn 50
37. The Monosyllable 51
38. Finally 52
39. Border 53
40. Short Views in Africa 54
41. III. NOTES TOWARD TIME
42. Notes Toward Time 61
43. A Motel in Troy New York 64
44. Bulletin from the Writer’s Colony 65
45. Power Failure 67
46. The Clock 68
47. For Murasaki 70
48. Trial Run 71
49. Arachne, Astonished 73
50. Food 74
51. The Fittest 75
52. The Night Watchman 76
53. It Is the Season 77
54. Figure 79