Dedication
Acknowledgments
1 Mickle Street
2 Burial House
3 “Mother, Father, Water, Earth, Me . . .”
4 “The Shadow and the Light of a Young Man’s Soul”
5 “This is the city and I am one of the citizens . . .”
6 “The word final, superior to all . . . what is it?”
7 Manifest Destiny
8 Wonderland
9 Phalanxes
10 Illuminations
11 “The beginning of a great career”
12 “The Ocean of Life”
13 Meteors
14 “America, brought to hospital in her fair youth”
15 Good Gray Poet
16 Passages
17 Timber Creek
Notes
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