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Book SynopsisWilliams handles big concernsfaith, hurricanes, history, the conundrum of the bodywith sly humor, assurance, and poise, instantly establishing himself as a mature and memorable presence.
Table of ContentsAbout the Author • At the Pyramids • Capsule • The Infant • Alive and Dead • The Courtship • The Creature in Mourning for Its Mate • Nature Theory • Enter Lilith, in Her Garden • Memoir of Creation • Sugar Blues • Tough Room • Palace of Illusions • Bled to the Edges • The Hurricane • On the Feast Day of the Beheading of St. John the Baptist • Lincoln in the Holy Land • Simon of Cyrene • Samuel Butler • Sorry to Ask • Concrete Poem • Not on the Lips • Up and Over • Blood Hyphen • Work and Word • Clear and Copious • Applause • Read Me All the Books • School of Practical Dissection • In Pleading • In Boyce • There's a Whale Aground at Wijk aan Zee • There's a Rooster Aboard the Battleship • Rosemary Lamb • The Lesser Gods of Earth • The Minotaur • The Tortoise • The Hummingbird • The Raccoon • Pearls Before Swine • Filler Material • The House with Two Front Doors • Operation Daily Bread • Robert Frost Embarks on Goodwilll Tour of Soviet Republics •Ars Apologia • My Hero • House on Fire: McLean, Virginia • The Caravan • Soak the Bloke • Note on Spurious Sources • Fixing Miss Becky's Bottom • Cadaver in a Landscape • The Sunbath • Cold Nest • Nothing Else • Jonah's Gourd • Goat Shack • Night Job • Wordsworth • Dawn on Grace Street • Book Report • Late Riser • Neighborhood • The Pedestal • The Mirror • First Man on Earth • Choking Baby • Selected Silences • Acknowledgments •
