Contents

  1. ONE
    1. Every Turning
    2. Self-Portrait Beside Myself
    3. Free
    4. Night Nurse
    5. Tracheotomy
    6. Video Baby Monitor
    7. Centering
    8. The Hairdryer Cord Is All Tangled
    9. Why Poetry: A Partial Autobiography
  1. TWO
    1. Why Poetry: A Partial Autobiography
    2. Nest
    3. Why Poetry: A Partial Autobiography
    4. Apprehension
    5. Where Am I?
    6. In the Waiting Room
  1. THREE
    1. Book Review: The Mountain Lion by Jean Stafford
  1. FOUR
    1. Self-Portrait as the Man I’ve Become
    2. Letters to Brenda
    3. Which Is the Best Part of the Day?
    4. Low Note
    5. All Elegies
    6. Tomorrow and Tomorrow Again
    7. Another Day
    8. Edgemont
    9. Gnostic
    10. Another Poem on My Daughter’s Birthday