CONTENTS

  1. Foreword
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  2. Tenor
  3. Inside the River, I Covet
  4. The Sound of Hunting
  5. The Fever
  6. Descent
  7. There Will Be Mourning
  8. The River
  9. The Dead Are Beautiful Tonight
  10. Leave the Crows Out of It
  11. When Struck by Night
  12. Making the Bed
  13. My Mother, My Mother
  14. Faith Opens the Trapdoor
  15. A Shiver in the Leaves
  16. The Death of a Moth
  17. Culture
  18. In Seattle
  19. Stay Safe
  20. It Is February
  21. Passed Down
  22. Aubade
  23. He Went Away Without Saying Goodbye
  24. Video: “9/11: The Falling Man”
  25. Obsession Gets on One Knee
  26. As the Fog Rolls In, Night Finds Its Footing
  27. (Black) Boy, Revisited
  28. Prayer
  29. Dearest
  30. Fallen Angel
  31. The Wind Did What the Wind Came to Do
  32. Thine Will Be Done
  33. Mercy
  34. Given
  35. Winter, Extended
  36. You’ll Never Love Me
  37. Near Sacrament
  38. Into the City, I Become Become
  39. Such Things Require Tenderness
  40. Notes
  41. Acknowledgments
  42. About the Author
  43. Colophon
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