CONTENTS
Lost Highway
Body Man
A Book by Its Cover
Abandoned Homesite in a Field
Smokers, Sunday Morning, 1975
Elizabeth Patton, Wife of Davy Crockett
The Principal’s Son
Meditation on Door Slams
The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care
Junk
Purple Martin Village
Farm Portrait
Featured Twirler
Regarding Symbols
A Hundred and One Affordable House Plans
September
I Will Not Talk in Class
Primitive Baptist
Social History
Americana
Elegy for George Garrett
All-American Cheerleader Sandi Sentell Stands in Line outside Alumni Gym before a Lecture by Gloria Steinem
Theology
Essay on Friendship
His Mark
Old Theater Ticket Found in the Pages of René Char’s Selected Poems
Interesting Case
Spit and Polish
Spring Recital, Beethoven Club, Memphis, Tenn.
Rooms with Radiators
National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) Hall of Fame Coach Jack Russell Makes a Visit to the Mound
Last Words
Salvage Yard in Mississippi
Girl Flagman on Highway 45
Fourth Grade Field Trip, Elmwood Cemetery
Rain Crow
Second Row at the Ballet
William Eggleston
Acknowledgments