Contents -- Editor's Note -- Foreword -- Call and Answer -- Lady Freedom among Us -- Your Beauty Is Overwhelming -- Green -- On Reading a Biography of George Washington -- End of the War, 1949 -- Kubota to Miguel Hernandez in Heaven, Leupp, Arizona, 1942 -- Night in Blue -- This Place is Here -- Tienanmen, The Aftermath -- In Mystic -- All Hallows Eve -- History Lesson -- An Essay on Liberation -- November 11 -- Parable of the Jew without a Name -- Tahrir -- Unrest -- Summer of '09 -- Reading about Rwanda -- The Freeways Considered As Earth Gods -- The Squash Man -- The Bridge of Intellectuals -- Dialogue (Of the Imagination's Fear) -- Nelson Mandela's 90th Birthday ["Live in the Body, Long As You Will, Madiba"] -- War Is Never Right -- Athena Looks On -- Jerusalem: Easter, Passover -- Boy Shooting at a Statue -- Angels -- To Salah Al Hamdani, November, 2008 -- After the Fact -- The Book of the Dead Man (The Vote) -- The Museum of Stones -- Rules Governing the Exchange of Prisoners -- Language Acquisition: No and Yes -- On Election Day -- Shoo -- Second Thoughts -- Becoming Milton -- World Cup -- In Prison -- Now -- On the Ordination of a Zen Monk -- Extraordinary Rendition -- Staff Sgt. Metz -- Ex-Embassy -- August 6, and again on August 9 -- The Allusion of Seduction -- Dear Prudence -- Asphodel -- Dark Thirty -- Teacup Manifesto -- Fatwa -- What's Fair Is Fair -- Poverty -- The Gatekeeper's Children -- More Poetry -- The People of the Other Village -- Wait -- Afterword -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- List of Contributors.