Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction: Fair Realist by Peter Gizzi -- Timeline -- Works by Barbara Guest -- Notes and Acknowledgments -- The Location of Things Archaics The Open Skies (1962) -- The Location of Things -- The Location of Things -- Piazzas -- All Grey-haired My Sisters -- Windy Afternoon -- Russians at the Beach -- The Hero Leaves His Ship -- Les Réalités -- In the Middle of the Easel -- On the Way to Dumbarton Oaks -- Cape Canaveral -- Sunday Evening -- Parachutes, My Love, Could Carry Us Higher -- The Crisis -- Upside Down -- Seeing You Off -- Safe Flights -- Sadness -- Jaffa Juce -- In Dock -- People in Wartime -- Landing -- History -- Oriental Movie -- The Crisis -- West Sixty-fourth Street -- The Time of Day -- Herioc Stages -- In America, the Seasons -- Belgravia -- In the Alps -- The Past of a Poem -- Archaics -- Atalanta in Arcadia -- "From Eyes Blue and Cold" -- Dido to Aeneas -- Green Awnings -- Palm Trees -- In the Campagna -- "Who will accept our offering at this end of autumn?" -- The Open Skies -- The Voice Tree -- Lights of My Eyes -- Snow Angel -- Santa Fe Trail -- Nocturne -- The First of May -- Dardanella -- The Brown Studio -- All Elegies Are Black and White -- The Open Skies -- Hurricane -- His Jungle -- Timor Mortis, Florida -- Sand -- Wave -- Geography -- The Blue Stairs (1968) -- The Blue Stairs -- Turkey Villas -- Walking Buddha -- Colonial Hours -- Saving Tallow -- The Return of the Muses -- A Reason -- Direction -- Barrels -- East of Omsk -- Parade's End -- Clouds Near the Windmill -- Fan Poems -- A Way of Being -- Four Moroccan Studies -- 20 -- A Handbook of Surfing -- I Ching (1969) -- I Ching -- Moscow Mansions (1973) -- Red Lilies -- Illyria -- Egypt -- Nebraska -- On Mt. Snowdon -- Rosy Ensconcements -- Even Ovid -- The Interruptions -- Moscow Mansions 1 -- Moscow Mansions 2.

Knight of the Swan -- Carmen -- Museum -- Byron's Signatories -- The Poetess -- Losing People -- The Poem Lying Down -- Sassafras -- Circassians -- Another July -- Drawing a Blank -- Stupid Physical Pain -- Roses -- Lights of My Eyes -- Passage -- Hohenzollern -- The Stragglers -- Olivetti Ode -- On the Verge of the Path -- Gravel -- Bicycling -- Shifting the Iris -- Green Revolutions -- Poem -- Evening -- The Old Silk Road -- Now -- The Countess from Minneapolis (1976) -- 1 -- 2 -- 3: 50 Floors -- 4: Thinking of You Prokofief -- 5: River Road Studio -- 6: Portrait of Mary Rood -- 7: Eating Lake Superior Cisco Smoked Fish -- 8: Musings on the Mississippi -- 9: Legends -- 10 -- 11 -- 12: Prairie Houses -- 13 -- 14 -- 15: At the Guthrie Theater -- 16 -- 17: Persians in Minneapolis -- 18 -- 19: (Scop-A Poet) Widsith -- 20 -- 21 -- 22 -- 23 -- 24 -- 25 -- 26 -- 27 -- 28 -- 29 -- 30 -- 31 -- 32 -- 33 -- 34 -- 35: Crocus Hill -- 36 -- 37: Activities -- 38 -- 39: June -- 40 -- 41 -- 42: Amaryllis -- The Türler Losses (1979) -- The Türler Losses -- Biography (1980) -- One -- Two -- Three -- Four -- Five -- Six -- Seven -- Eight -- Nine -- Quilts (1980) -- Quilts -- Musicality (1988) -- Musicality -- Fair Realism (1989) -- Wild Gardens Overlooked by Night Lights -- La Noche Entra en Calor -- The View from Kandinsky's Window -- The Thread -- Ilex -- Spring Vine -- Dora Maar -- An Emphasis Falls on Reality -- Valuable Mörike -- The Rose Marble Table -- Shuffling Light -- The Screen of Distance -- Heavy Violets -- The Farewell Stairway -- Words -- Twilight Polka Dots -- The Nude -- Western Additives -- In Medieval Hollow -- Bleat -- Ropes Sway -- Country Cousins -- Savannahs -- The Cradle of Culture -- Lawn Bumps -- Tessera -- Defensive Rapture (1993) -- I: Paulownia -- Dove -- Expectation -- Geese Blood -- Fleet of White -- Atmospheres -- The Surface as Object.

II: Defensive Rapture -- Beautiful/Evil -- Borrowed Mirror, Filmic Rise -- Restlessness -- Chalk -- III: Borderlands -- Dissonance Royal Traveller -- The Advance of the Grizzly -- The Glass Mountain -- Otranto -- Winter Horses -- IV: The Altos: from 1991 -- Stripped Tales (1995) -- Structured -- Immediacy -- Lottery can guess -- The moment -- A noun -- Settles into space -- Germination    Begins -- Undermining -- Opposing ideas -- Which-away -- Philosophy -- In Norway -- Moody -- Adjectivalness -- Need -- To identify -- Odd -- Pagination -- Property -- Mix-up -- Selfdom -- A venetian -- Pallor -- Ice -- Buttons -- History -- Ambushed -- Klebnikov    Lootage -- Useful -- Techniques -- Loose grams -- Of nutmeg -- Typestry -- Ghost -- Aboard -- The French woman -- Beckoned -- Moment -- Of ingenuity -- Antiquity -- What we say -- Empathetic -- Chimes -- Law -- Of the ether -- Bergson's Law -- Magicked -- The position -- Anarchical -- Photo -- Mirage -- Quill, Solitary Apparition (1996) -- Finally, to the Italian Girl -- Garment -- Fell, Darkly -- Pallor -- Leaving MODERNITY -- Cold and Its Demeanour -- Quill, Solitary Apparition -- If So, Tell Me (1999) -- Valorous Vine -- Storytelling -- Outside of This, That Is -- In Slow Motion -- Doubleness -- annunziare! Dora Films -- Lily -- The Poetry Meter -- The Lull -- Russet Flame -- Unusual Figures -- If So, Tell Me -- The Luminous -- Strings -- Deception -- Athletic Writing -- Faery Land -- The Paris Lectures -- The Green Fly -- Confession of My Images -- Effervescence -- The Strum -- Music History -- Sideways -- The Confetti Trees (1999) -- Overboard -- The Tear -- The Cough -- Trousers for Extras -- Nostalgia -- The Guerrilla Reporters -- Confucius -- Color -- Nuns -- Corelli -- The Vanished Library -- "Lonely Mess" -- Lubitsch -- Noise -- Preparedness -- "Moments Before …" -- The Dream Motion Picture.

A Proposal for Animation -- Nemesis -- The Aromas -- Falling in Love -- Details -- The Confetti Trees -- Romance -- No Words -- Screening Room Notes -- The Minus Ones -- Scenario-iste -- Celluloid -- Ars, Longa -- Metropolis -- Enchantment -- Simultaneity -- The Spell of Beauty -- The Utmost Unreality -- Disappearance -- Rocks on a Platter: Notes on Literature (1999) -- I: "Ideas. As they find themselves …" -- II: "And the words linger, deciding which direction to take …" -- III: "Intimacy of tone …" -- IV: "Without shyness or formality …" -- Symbiosis (2000) -- Symbiosis: Originally appeared with artwork by Laura Reid -- Miniatures and Other Poems (2002) -- Miniatures -- Shabby Boot -- Bird of Art -- Spirit Tree -- Turret -- Negative Possibility -- Camisole -- Tiny Foreign Tears -- Transcription -- Lost Speech -- First Prints -- Yesterday -- Pilgrimage -- Finnish Opera -- Photographs -- Petticoat -- Blue Arthur -- Autobiography -- Noisetone -- Fourteenth of July -- Chekhovania -- Coal -- Colonial Hours -- Sound and Structure -- Musicianship -- Pathos -- Blurred Edge -- Dürer in the Window, Reflexions on Art (2003) -- Lunch at Helen Frankenthaler's -- On a Painting by Hayden Stubbing -- Homage -- The Red Gaze (2005) -- 1 Nostalgia -- An Afternoon in Jeopardy -- Imagined Room -- Loneliness -- A Different Honey -- A Short Narrative -- Freedom -- Alteration -- A Burst of Leaves -- The Next Floor -- Roman Stripes -- The Trickster -- The Hungry Knight -- The Past -- Modernism -- Green Numbers -- Stair of Our Youth -- A Noise of Return -- Freed Color -- The Gold Tap -- Minimal Sound -- The Brown Vest -- 2 The Red Gaze -- A Dawn Walk -- No Longer Strangers -- Hans Hofmann -- Vignettes -- Echoes -- Instructions -- Composition -- Supposition -- New Poems -- Elf -- Storytelling -- Constable's Method, Brightening Near the Bridge -- Beginning of Rain Notes.

Shelley in the Navy-Colored Chair -- Hotel Comfort -- Index.