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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
BOOK ONE: LIFE STUDIES
Part One
The Prince of Rivers
Father
Mother
Confession
It Came from the Primordial Ooze
Action Reaction
Variations on the Moment of Apprehending the Extent of One’s Responsibilities
Motherhood
Anger
Part Two
On His Bed and No Longer Among the Living
Part Three
To an Editor Who Said I Repeat Myself and Tell Too Much
Get Out
“Sometimes We Sleep Well in the Midst of Terrible Grief”
My Mom, d. 1994
Quatrains Until Dawn
Part Four
I
Goodbye Girls
Late Poem
Narcissus and Me
Smoking
Friendship
Other Women
Masturbation
Jazz
The Middle Generation
Money Time
Layoff
Lines in the Rain
II
The Meantime
The Darkness Echoing
Home
Fame
The Past Ahead
Like an Answer, Yes
BOOK TWO: A CELEBRATION
Beginnings for an Essay in Spite of Itself
Grief: A Celebration
Notes
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Colophon
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