Contents -- Part I -- Ode to Anglo Saxon, Film Noir, and the Hundred Thousand Anxieties that Plague Me like Demons in a Medieval Christian Allegory -- Who Do Mambo -- Working at Pam-Pam's -- Ode on Laundry, Lester Young, and Your Last Letter -- 9 Sonnets from the Psalms -- A Birdman to You, Baby -- Ode to Airheads, Hairdos, Trains to and from Paris -- Mambo Cadillac -- O'ahu Mambo -- Part II - Lingo Sonnets -- Aloha, Dad, Au Revoir, Goodbye -- Caliban Passes His Driving Test on the Ninth Try -- Betty Boop's Bebop -- Desdemona Resuscitated by Sir John Falstaff, EMT -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton Writes the Dictionary -- Friday Slams Crusoe -- Ganymede's Dream of Rosalind -- Hope Revived: The Road to Baghdad -- I Find an Entrance to Hell -- Jane Austen Rewrites Hamlet with Interruptions by Russian Poets -- Karen, David, and I Stop across the Street from the Pitti Palace -- Lysistrata Lectures the Gods -- Mr. Nollie Hinton Talks to Me while I Test-Drive His 1955 Studebaker -- Nietzsche Explains the Übermensch to Lois Lane -- Olive Oyl Thinks about Quantum Theory -- Punk Puck or Robin Goodfellow with Fender Stratocaster -- Queen Mab Blues or Quick, Run for Cover, She's Reading Horace Again -- Raskolnikov Rates the Plays -- So Says Cleopatra, Reincarnated as a Hippie Chick, circa 1967 -- Titus Woos Titania -- Ulysses Talks with Freud about the Underworld -- Venus and Dogsbody, a Match Made in New Jersey -- Whatever orAs You Like It, Part Two -- Xerox My Heart, Three-Headed Dog -- Yorick's Soliloquy -- Zeus, It's Your Leda, Sweetie Pie -- Part III -- All-Night Lingo Tango -- Ode on Dictionaries -- Ode to Odor, Ardor, and the Queen's Chickabobboo -- Ode to Diagramming Sentences in Eighth-Grade English Class with Moonlight, Drugs, and Stars -- Ode on My 45s, Insomnia, and My Poststructuralist Superego -- Ode to Fear.

Ode on Cake, Catcalls, Eggs with a Minor Scary Reference to the End of the World -- Ode to Little Boys -- Ode to White Peaches, Pennies, Planets, and Bijou, the Dog -- Ode on the Letter M -- Notes -- Acknowledgments.