Intro -- Contents -- Was You Born Here? -- All Short-a Appalachia -- The Black Dog of the Blue Ridge -- A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Car, of Dale Earnhardt at Daytona -- Living with Ballads: Sidna Allen -- The Hundredth Summer of the Chestnut Blight -- Ghosts for Dinner -- American Viscose Plant, 1929 -- Clampdown -- Tiffanie -- Drinking Bottled Water -- Faculty Parking Apocalypse -- The Shower Curtain Swans -- Disney Ride Song of the South -- Moved, Lost Your Number -- Fearing the Loss of My Hounds -- Crop Cults -- Living with Ballads: The Nutshell Bed -- Fire Baton -- The Crocodile Dream, Every Seven Years -- Magic City Mortgage Co., 1951 -- Idol Meat -- The Consolation of Philosophy -- Pets, Ending with My Folks' First Dog -- Barry on Porch, Barry in Parking Lot -- A Scratch -- An Essay in Criticism -- Surf with P. B. Shelley -- Amazed at Gray Light -- A Good Half Hand -- The Banks of Hell -- Fancy Gap -- Beating My Head on a Curb in California -- Silicon Valley, 1998 -- The Confirmation Gift of a Cat's Eye Headlight -- Duchess -- Beginning with a Line by John Berryman -- Locket Icon -- Richmond Breastworks -- Montani Semper Liberi -- Praise -- Lumber Room -- Public Transportation -- Living with the Bureau of Public Debt -- Notes.

Elizabeth Leigh Palmer Hadaway lives in Kingsvill, Maryland. She was an instructor at Virginia Commonwealth University and worked as an historical interpreter at Agecroft Hall in Richmond, Virginia. She was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University and has received scholarships to the Breadloaf and Sewanee writer's conferences.

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