| Foreword | p. 9 |
| Introduction | p. 15 |
| "Bored" | p. 21 |
| "Nocturnal" | p. 23 |
| "Mr. X" | p. 25 |
| "Schadenfreude" | p. 27 |
| "Sunday, Tarzan in His Hammock" | p. 29 |
| "The Woman Who Loved Things" | p. 31 |
| "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" | p. 33 |
| "Girl Writing a Letter" | p. 35 |
| "Terminus" | p. 37 |
| "The Infusion Room" | p. 40 |
| "Sestina" | p. 43 |
| "Thirty Years Rising" | p. 45 |
| "Film Noir: Train Trip Out of Metropolis" | p. 48 |
| "Sometimes I Get Distracted" | p. 50 |
| "Terminal Laughs" | p. 51 |
| "In the Clearing" | p. 54 |
| "The Printer's Error" | p. 65 |
| "For a Brother" | p. 68 |
| "Salutations to Fernando Pessoa" | p. 69 |
| "Another Day on the Pilgrimage" | p. 71 |
| "Asparagus" | p. 75 |
| "Undead White European Male" | p. 77 |
| "A Still Life, Symbolic of Lines" | p. 80 |
| "Being Pharaoh" | p. 83 |
| "Permissive Entry: A Sermon on Fame" | p. 88 |
| "If So" | p. 91 |
| "Days of 1992" | p. 93 |
| "St. Peregrinus' Cancer" | p. 96 |
| "Prospects" | p. 98 |
| "Unearthly Voices" | p. 99 |
| "Against the Literal" | p. 103 |
| "Seventeen" | p. 104 |
| "Apocatastasis Foretold in the Shape of a Canvas of Smoke" | p. 106 |
| "All Wild Animals Were Once Called Deer" | p. 108 |
| "Sonogram" | p. 113 |
| "On a Line from Valery" | p. 114 |
| "1975" | p. 115 |
| "Falling Water" | p. 117 |
| "Troubling the Water" | p. 129 |
| "Getting the Message" | p. 132 |
| "Bridget" | p. 134 |
| "My Night with Philip Larkin" | p. 137 |
| "Refuge" | p. 138 |
| "What You Find in the Woods" | p. 141 |
| "Fracture Santa Monica" | p. 143 |
| "My Mammogram" | p. 145 |
| "And What Do You Get" | p. 149 |
| "Exchange of Fire" | p. 150 |
| "Shooting for Line" | p. 152 |
| "The Interior Prisoner" | p. 158 |
| "Late Night Tete-a-Tete with a Moon in Transit" | p. 164 |
| "Have You Ever Faked an Orgasm?" | p. 175 |
| "Toys" | p. 179 |
| "Old Mama Saturday" | p. 181 |
| "How Light Is Spent" | p. 183 |
| "How Late Desire Looks" | p. 185 |
| "The Night Before His Parents' First Trip to Europe His Mother Writes a Letter 'To Our Children'" | p. 187 |
| "Outsider Art" | p. 189 |
| "The Age of Reason" | p. 190 |
| "Transit Authority" | p. 192 |
| "Threads" | p. 194 |
| "The Present Perfect" | p. 197 |
| "Avec Amour" | p. 199 |
| "Manufacturing" | p. 204 |
| "Brotherhood" | p. 208 |
| "Museum Piece" | p. 210 |
| "The Nursery" | p. 212 |
| "Scatter" | p. 214 |
| "The Nose, the Grand Canyon, and the Sixties" | p. 217 |
| "Walt Whitman Bathing" | p. 219 |
| "The Shape of History" | p. 221 |
| "San Joaquin Valley Poems: 1969" | p. 222 |
| "Homage to Ryszard Kapuscinski" | p. 225 |
| "The Cradle Logic of Autumn" | p. 229 |
| "Blue Guide" | p. 231 |
| Contributors' Notes and Comments | p. 239 |
| Magazines Where the Poems Were First Published | p. 283 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 286 |
| Cumulative Series Index | p. 290 |
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