Includes bibliographical references (page 168) and index.
Contents:
Two long poems -- River of light: a conversation with Kabir. Next time... Confessional -- The sinner at six -- Old Jewish Quarter, Prague -- Sabina Spielrein: A life -- Patrimony -- In spider country -- Northwest shrew mole -- On the body: a zuihitsu -- Palladium seeds for prostate cancer -- My portrait by Van Gogh -- Lady Digby on her deathbed -- Self-portrait with beret and angst -- The visit -- The Bernstein plot -- The abortion: a zuihitsu -- To a solstice party in Fairbanks -- The drone -- The meteorologist -- Mt. rusty cars -- Junior the dog -- Manny Perl and the secret wish -- With my son at Tennant Lake -- And never look back -- From Spear-Fishing on the Chatanika -- The dive-master's manifest -- Scouts spear-fishing on the Chatanika -- A man without legs -- Above the Tanana: For Muriel Morgan (1914-2001) -- Mourning cloak -- A memorial perhaps -- The Battle of Austerlitz -- Poet charged in scrape -- Jetsam -- Whistler's mother -- Time off from bad behavior -- Angles rather than angels -- Revolutionary poets -- The Denali wolf -- Neptune's daughter -- At the farmhouse in West Branch (1965) -- Men too -- Above the Tanana: For Jim Simmerman -- Preserve your family photo album on-line -- Wazzat? -- Kindling: For Ben -- An easy dayhike, Mt. Rainier -- Archives of the air -- Archives of the air -- November surprise -- From a journal -- Vision -- A head -- Above the Tanana: For Mali Gergely -- Alien corn -- The good life (a dream) -- Under Yucatan -- Mt. Tamalpais -- The attack -- The unsafe house -- Homeless in Seattle -- Celestial firestorm -- Postcard from Nancy -- II. Analects (a gathering of literary fragments) -- Analects of the red canoe -- III -- Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun: Self-portrait -- A cranberrying -- A renaissance altarpiece -- Counting caribou-Prudhoe Bay, Alaska -- Above the tanana: For Jerry Cable -- Ask Louise -- Into my head -- Two views of the wreckage -- Sounds in a forest -- American Talaban -- The assignment -- The unnamed lake -- Denali Park fall drive-through -- Psalm: after Nietszche -- Two long poems -- The wedge -- River of light: a conversation with Kabir.
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