The Reader Inquires, the Author Answers
Questions My Son Asked Me, Answers I Never Gave Him
How the Hen Sold Her Eggs to the Stingy Priest
Little Elegy with Books and Beasts
From 19 Masks for the Naked Poet
The Poet Invites the Moon for Supper
The Poet Takes a Photograph of His Heart
The Poet Turns His Enemy into a Pair of Wings
The Poet’s Wife Watches Him Enter the Eye of the Snow
From The Ballad of Biddy Early
How the Magic Bottle Gave Biddy Its Blessing
Charm of the Gold Road, the Silver Road, and the Hidden Road
How the Queen of the Gypsies Met Trouble-and-Pain
How Biddy Hid Mick the Moonlighter’s Sleep in Her Sleeve
Biddy Early Makes a Long Story Short
Song from the Far Side of Sleep
From A Visit to William Blake’s Inn
William Blake’s Inn for Innocent and Experienced Travelers
Blake Leads a Walk on the Milky Way
The King of Cats Sends a Postcard to His Wife
The Tiger Asks Blake for a Bedtime Story
“Buffalo Climbs Out of Cellar”
The Doctrine of the Leather-Stocking Jesus
Sinner, Don’t You Waste That Sunday
The Life of a Famous Man
From Things Invisible to See
The Well-tempered Falsehood: The Art of Storytelling
How Poetry Came into the World and Why God Doesn’t Write It