Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Acknowledgments -- Credits -- Contents -- Introduction -- Author'sNote -- Frontmatter -- The Cross -- Dead Christ -- Ecce Homo -- Crucifixion/Hudgins -- Ona Theme from Julian's Chapter XX Levertov -- The More Earnest Prayer of Christ/Cairns -- Gethsemane -- "Christ Bearing the Cross" -- Gospel Poem#2/Craig -- Facing It -- The Crucifix/Berrigan -- Canticle for Good Friday/Hill -- The Feast/Citino -- At the Piano/Hudgins. -- Transformation -- Easter 1984 -- The Say-but-the-Word Centurion Attempts a Summary/Murray -- The Emperor Has No Clothes!/Norris -- Christ as a Gardener/Hudgins -- Sabbaths: 1979 II -- The Handing Down -- An Anniversary/Berry -- The Monastery Orchard/Norris -- Alatus -- The Beacon/Wilbur -- My Farewell/Cairns -- Doctrines of the Strawberry -- The Nature of the Candle -- The Analysis/Citino -- In Memoriam/Berrigan -- Genesis/Hill -- The Way of Pain -- The Slip/Berry -- Gospel Poem#1 -- Gospel Poem#3/Craig -- Metamorphoses/Hill. -- Death -- Coming Forth/Cairns -- Last Rites -- The Corposant/Citino -- Three Elegaic Poems/Berry -- Surprise -- The Martyr -- Prospect of the Interior/Cairns -- Dream Songs Concluded -- Eclogue and Elegy/Eichner -- In Memory of Jane Fraser/Hill -- In a Churchyard -- To His Skeleton/Wilbur -- Death beds/Dillard -- Testament/Berry -- The Blue Light -- Desert Run Scenario/Norris -- The Apprentice Eats Glass/Craig -- "Planxty Irwin" -- Something of the Flowers/Hopes -- Asa Childin the Temple -- What Light Destroys/Hudgins -- The Cave/Hopes. -- Injustice -- Mary Kroger/Erdrich -- Letterfrom Santa Cruz/Eichner -- Astonishment -- Prague/Berrigan -- Of Commerce and Society -- Shiloh Church/Hill -- Watching Dark Circle/Levertov -- Observations and Experiments/Dillard -- The Morning's News/Berry -- Whole Wheat/Citino -- Litany/Craig.

The Misery Cord/Murray -- The Task/Levertov -- October -- Birdbones -- The Swimmers IHopes. -- Presence -- Hewn Hands/Craig -- The Savior/Erdrich -- Animal Nativity/Murray -- Pictureofa Nativity/Hill -- The Cestello Annunciation/Hudgins -- "She Said Yeah"/Norris -- AWorld Without Objects/Wilbur -- The Glass Man/Cairns -- Feast Days/Dillard -- Midnight Gladness/Levertov -- Waking Here/Cairns -- The Presence of God -- The Apprentice Sees Himselfin the Sunset -- Pentecost/Craig -- And Alsofrom the Son/Cairns -- Manwith the Hoe/Murray -- Summer -- AWoman Is Waitingfora Bus/Eichner -- Flickering Mind -- Variation and Reflection/Levertov -- Mary Magdalene's Left Foot/Hudgins -- Letterfrom the Shaman/Citino -- Poetry and Religion/Murray -- Caedmon/Levertov. -- God's Body -- Sabbaths:1985III -- Independence Day -- Sabbaths:1985I -- To the Unseeable Animal -- Window Poems:19-20/Berry -- Under the Drumlin -- Jobfrom His Mountain -- The Glacier's Daughters/Hopes -- Back Porch Fundamentalist/Eichner -- Woman and Man Descendedfrom the Cricket/Citino -- October Maples/Wilbur -- Feast Days/Dillard -- Mollusc -- The Craze Field/Murray -- The Sea of Kansas/Citino -- Our Lost Angels/Cairns -- Consider/Hudgins -- Francis Helpsa Brother Who Isin Sin/Craig. -- Fools -- My Imitation/Cairns -- Man Wearing Bird/Levertov -- The Mad Farmer Liberation Front -- Prayers and Sayings of the Mad Farmer/Berry -- What My Teachers Taught Me -- Out of Cana/Eichner -- Fossils -- Physics -- Apple -- Heart/Citino -- The Quality of Sprawl/Murray -- Repentance/Hudgins -- The Eye/Wilbur -- The Poison Lover -- City Hall/Citino -- We Will Now Hear the Word of God IBerrigan -- Beneath Searchlights/Hudgins -- ARecuperation of Sin/Cairns -- Another Voice -- The Proof/Wilbur -- On The Feast of Saint John/Hopes -- Nursing Home/Craig -- Colonel Hudgins -- Luke14/Norris. -- Wayfarers.

ILearned That Her Name Was Proverb -- To Rilke -- ACalvary Path/Levertov -- Loose Change -- How Shall We Sing the Lord's Songina Strange Land?/Hudgins -- The Man Who Wishes to Feedon Mahogany/Dillard -- Love Calls Us to the Things of This World -- Advicetoa Prophet -- Objects/Wilbur -- Principles of Scarcity/Citino -- Sceneswith Harlequins -- Funeral Music/Hill -- My Amusing Despair -- Exile/Cairns -- AThird Possibility/Berry. -- Love -- Embracing the Multipede/Levertov -- The Guest/Berry -- The Invalid of Park Street/Hopes -- To Tanyaat Christmas -- The Wild Rose/Berry -- Prothalamion/Craig -- After the Last Words/Cairns -- The Nature of Love -- The Family Jewels/Citino -- Winter Birds/Hopes -- Heat Lightningin Time of Drought/Hudgins -- Love of the Puppets/Wilbur -- The Adulterer/Cairns -- Homage to Onan/Citino -- The Rebirth of Venus/Hill -- New Year's Evein Bismarck/Norris -- The Father/Eichner -- True Love/Norris -- On Slow Learning/Cairns. -- The Dark -- Christ's Twin -- The Leonard Trilogy/Erdrich -- "Possession In Iowa"/Citino -- Homage to the Fox/Hudgins -- Jack Rhymer/Hopes -- Holy Thursday/Hill -- Holy Innocents/Hopes -- Regarding the Monument -- In Praise of Darkness -- Lucifer's Epistle/Cairns -- The Bibliographers/Hill -- Tywater -- Matthew VIII/Wilbur -- An Immortal/Murray -- Funeral Music/Hill -- Angels/Erdrich. -- Grace -- Apple Fools -- The Apprentice Is Amazed/Craig -- Dash It/Dillard -- Imperative -- Salvation -- Another Song/Cairns -- Imagistat Coney Island/Eichner -- The Chimes of Neverwhere/Murray -- The Throne of Grace/Norris -- Juggler/Wilbur -- The Apprentice Prophecies/Craig. -- Praise -- The Gaelic Long Tunes/Murray -- The Pastor Praises the Creator/Citino -- Our Father -- Hyperbole/Craig -- Glory Glory -- But God Is Silent/Berrigan -- Praying Drunk -- Psalm Against Psalms/Hudgins -- Hymns to Our Lady of Chartres/Hill.

APrayer to Eve -- Naming the Living God/Norris -- Praisein Summer/Wilbur -- Ticketsfora Prayer Wheel -- God/Dillard. -- The Mystical Body -- The Feast/Citino -- Mostly My Nightmares Are Dull/Hudgins -- The Wheel/Berry -- Inheritance/Norris -- Litanyfor the Living/Eichner -- The Sycamore -- Ata Country Funeral/Berry -- Re-rooting -- Another Revenant/Levertov -- Meditationin the Spring Rain/Berry -- Cleveland -- Angels -- Ogres -- Trolls/Citino -- Gospel -- The Adoration of the Magi/Hudgins. -- Sacrament -- The Sacraments/Erdrich -- The Rule/Wilbur -- ASong of Mercies/Hopes -- APurification -- The Mad Farmer Revolution/Berry -- This Day/Levertov -- Young Monk -- John Says Mass/Craig -- Death Words/Murray -- The Gift/Hudgins. -- The Leap -- Hester Prynne -- Washing Dishes/Norris -- The Theology of Doubt -- My Incredulity/Cairns -- Salvator Mundi/Levertov -- Sabbaths1980VI/Berry -- Icarium Mare -- ADubious Night/Wilbur -- Fooling God/Erdrich -- The Man Who Couldn't Believe/Citino -- Funeral Music -- The Humanist/Hill -- Ultima Ratio/Murray -- After"Mindwalk"/Levertov -- The Sign of Your Father/Dillard -- Messagefrom Inland/Eichner -- My Good Luck/Cairns -- Lachrimae Amantis/Hill -- Advent Sequence/Hopes. -- The Holy -- Christina -- Ignatius/Citino -- "Christmas Trees"/Hill -- Peter Maurin/Craig -- Saint Clare/Erdrich -- Lady Julian of Norwich/Levertov -- Julian/Hopes -- Teresa/Wilbur -- The Funeral Orationas Pronouncedby the Compassionate Buddha/Berrigan -- Froma Woman's Life/Eichner -- Marian Sector/Craig -- Agatha/Citino -- Francis Meetsa Leper/Citino -- Fire and St.Francis/Hudgins.