Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Poems 1960-2008 -- [Therefore, set forth over the black river] -- Shadow and Light -- Itinerary -- By the Lake -- Utensils -- Driving to Fort Bragg -- Dog in the Forest -- History -- Columbia 1960 -- Ten Philosophical Asides -- Marginalia: Whitehead -- Quotations -- Analects -- From Delete -- "Come Live with Me" -- : It : -- From Writing The Silences -- "Come Sunday" -- Birthright -- Notebook -- This Morning -- Aftershock -- Visiting Hours -- The Parachutist's Annunciation -- Holding On -- …a divertimento… -- Footnotes -- A Funeral of Memory -- The Winter Garden -- A Treasury of Darkness -- Introit -- Over the Shoulder -- Meanwhile -- Poems 1946-1957 -- From A History Primer -- Seascape -- From September Elegy -- From At Caesar'S Gate -- A Reminiscence -- Birthday View Opening on a Garden -- Notes.