Contents -- Foreword by W. S. Merwin -- Acknowledgments -- ONE -- Bellwether -- Dramatis Personae -- Wave -- The Hobos -- Dreadful Chapter One -- Envoy -- Octagon -- Ace -- Prisoner of Conscience -- Leather-Stocking -- Dreadful Chapter Two -- Proof -- Shady Grove -- A Prayer Against Forgetting Boys -- Seventeen -- Progress Report -- Ontology -- Pontiac -- Dreadful Chapter Three -- Strait -- Quantum Cowboy -- Beck -- Analog -- Siding -- A Condensed History of Beauty -- TWO -- Pegasus -- Antimatter -- Dreadful Chapter Four -- Allegory -- Affirmation -- Future Booth -- Raptor -- Dreadful Chapter Five -- Seven Chimeras -- Act V, scene iv -- Calumet -- Complaint -- Dreadful Chapter Six -- Like a Tree -- THREE -- Exodusman -- Missive -- Canis Apologetica -- Dreadful Chapter Seven -- The Bootleggers -- Feud -- Schism -- Look Away -- Airlift, 1971 -- Braves -- Eclipse -- Raid -- Relief -- Reserve -- Dovetail -- A Dream of Ash and Soot -- Pilgrims.