Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Helen Vendler ; Opening Remarks ; [what direction will you take when the universe collapses. you who when you go must go someplace.]
  • [my father and me making dresses: together]
  • [my father and me in hollywood: fading and rising starlets]
  • [darling can you kill me: with your mickeymouse pillows]
  • [writing for a young man on the redline train: “to his boy mistress”]
  • [gardenhose dilated with rain: a puff adder]
  • [my lot to spin the purple: that the tabernacle should be made]
  • Tender Mercies
  • Quarantine
  • Boonies
  • Missionary Man
  • Mass for Pentecost: Canticle for Birds and Water / D. A. Powell