Title Page -- Dedication -- EXCAVATIONS -- The Night Guard -- The Fieldworker -- The Scholar -- The Smuggler -- The Physical Anthropologist -- The Cartographer -- The Cook -- The Photographer -- FIRST PRINCIPALS -- Aubade -- Adam's Prayer -- The Birds of Paradise -- Exodus -- Lowly -- Off-Season -- Soliloquy -- Four Rivers Flow from Eden -- Delivery -- Catch -- Refrain -- JOURNEYWORK -- Front Story -- Islands -- The Ship Examined -- Penelope in Heavy Weather -- Seadog on Ithaca -- Penelope Dreams of Geese -- The Girls -- Wayfarer -- Lookout -- Back Story -- What the Sirens Said -- Odysseus on Watch -- Argos -- You Are So Strange -- Translations -- Vessel -- Envoi -- Acknowledgments -- Copyright Page.