Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Birthday -- I. -- A Sunday in God-Years -- A Reckoning -- 1. The Debt -- 2. Ruminator -- 3. No Trespassing. Violators Will Be Prosecuted, etc. -- 4. Meanwhile -- 5. Reward -- 6. The Subscriber -- 7. Catalogue -- 8. Two Wills in Old Virginia -- 9. Apologies -- 10. Spear-Side and Distaff -- 11. Brown Study -- 12. Field Guide to North American Guilt -- 13. Before the Age of Aerial Bombardment -- 14. Gibson -- 15. Eighteenth-Century Boisseau Farmhouse -- Fitz Patrick Boisseau -- Genealogy -- II. -- A Genius for Silence -- Stones Grown into His Footsoles -- Found Poem -- Outskirts of Lynchburg -- Monstrance -- The Sad Book of Fun -- The Good -- Sandcastle Guarded by a Cicada Shell -- Not to Mention All This Ferrous Fructiferousness -- Time Done Is Dark -- Larger than Life -- Night Valley -- Bird Shadow on Window Glass -- Recriminating Rags of Sunlight -- Hard Weather -- Pertinacious Seedheads -- Inkling -- After a While, Time Passed -- A Porchful of Presbyterians -- Flying with the Eyes of a Satellite -- & if & if -- Ode to the Tongue -- Die Zwei Ist Zweifel -- III. -- Across the Borderlands, the Wind -- South Dakota Field Trip -- When I Consider -- Notes.

Michelle Boisseau is professor of English at the University of Missouri- Kansas City where she also serves as associate editor of BkMk Press. She is the author of three books of poetry, No Private Life; Understory, winner of the Samuel French Morse Prize; and Trembling Air (University of Arkansas Press), a PEN USA finalist. She is coauthor of the popular book Writing Poems, now in its seventh edition.

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