Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The City -- Jeffery Tallcott -- Peter Joyce -- Tanney Bronson -- Nora Omen -- William McCarthy -- The Factories -- Fluoroscope of Evening -- Workshops in Labor -- The City with Empty Closets -- Letter to My Brother -- Forge Plant -- Termites in the Floor -- Ignorance Escapes from the Tomb -- Under the Heel -- Live Cemeteries -- The Reign of Beasts -- Photograph of Starved Child Dumped in a Burial Cart -- Fishcutters -- Folksong -- A Little Autobiography -- This House -- Excerpts from "In the Arriving" -- Excerpts from "The Square Root of In" -- The Other Side -- The Garden of the Apocalypse -- The Gold -- Spades -- Aria -- The Theia Mania of Charles Olson -- In the Wake of Night I Beheld the Generations -- Dialogue with Thoreau -- Moon Soliloquy -- The Flood Time of Fishing -- A Song of Rage -- Council Meeting -- The Bulldozers Get the Fishermen's Institute -- Pharaoh Otto Bosselman -- Mural of the Harbor -- Angel of Death -- Blacklisted -- Blessing of the Gasoline Tankers -- Cativo -- Ballad ov da Cut -- Torch Moynahan -- Fort Defiance -- Rag Picca: Trowaways -- Da Summa Creche: Da Castagnaccis -- Duntouchables -- Da Loss ov da Capt Cosmos: Cosmos Marcantonio, John Burnham, Benjamin Interrante, Salvatore Grover, Vito Misuraca, Jerome Pallazola -- Divinin Rod -- Patty Welch's Dream & Mimi Dreamin -- One -- December 26, 1969 -- January 23, 1970 -- September 3, 1970 -- September 29th of the lost year -- August 5th, another lost year -- August 7, 1976 -- November 3/1977 -- Gloucester A.D. 1973 -- Charley Olson -- The Ghost of Rocky Neck -- At the Brink -- A Preface to the Art of Fishing -- We Are the Wildflowers -- The Winter of Ideologies -- Sea Medicine -- Stale Supper -- The Holiest of Holies -- The Olson Strain -- The Salt Marshes of Our Lady -- Mount Ann -- The Date -- Answers -- Wraith Reading.

The Big Question -- Ellis Island Rediscovered -- The Interrogation -- Visa -- A Poem Is Made Of -- The Gas Poem -- Hunger -- The Gold Miner -- July 4, 1776, Sign of Interdependencies -- Foreknowing -- Journey to Raiano -- Love Song for the Jews -- Miriam -- Excerpts from "IHS" -- Song of the Amaranth -- The Rocks of Wisdom -- The Alchemy of the Poem -- Rhapsody of the God Fish -- The Whole Song -- A Fact of No Time.