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| Prologue: The Politics of Narrative - Why I Am a Poet | |
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| Stone Soup | |
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| The Planet Krypton | |
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| Chinoisserie | |
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| Blonde Bombshell | |
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| One Summer Hurricane Lynn Spawns Tornadoes as Far West as Ely | |
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| The Night Man at the Blue Lite | |
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| Outside Room Six | |
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| Dreaming of Rio at Sixteen | |
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| For Me at Sunday Sermons, the Serpent | |
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| This Is the Truth | |
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| Domestic Violence | |
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| What the Keyhole Was | |
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| Seizure | |
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| Whites | |
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| Drawing Rosie's Train Trip | |
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| The Idol | |
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| What Grieving Was | |
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| What Ely Was | |
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| A Red Kimono | |
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| The Past | |
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| Bella Roma | |
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| Riddle | |
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| Who Is She Kidding | |
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| Self-Portrait at Eighteen | |
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| We, the Poets of America | |
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| Inspiration | |
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| Heartsick | |
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| On Waking after Dreaming of Raoul | |
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| The Technology of Love | |
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| Rebirth | |
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| A Poem Like an Automobile Can Take You Anywhere | |
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| Far | |
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| Inspiration, Two | |
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| Spite - Homage to Sylvia Plath | |
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| Big Black Car | |
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| The Out-of-Body Experience | |
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| What Dying Was Like | |
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| What Did You Expect? | |
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| The Poet in Heaven | |
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| What Heaven Is | |
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| Homage to Dickinson | |
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| The Dig | |
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| Coda (in the Form of Notes) | |
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| Frying Trout while Drunk | |
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| The Sleeping | |
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| Of Your Father's Indiscretions and the Train to California | |
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| The Dig | |
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| I Dream I Love You under the Pine, under the Poplar | |
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| Berlin Interior with Jews, 1939 | |
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| When Father Decided He Did Not Love Her Anymore | |
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| Grandmother Zoltana, Tunisia, Early '50s - Two Photographs -Before Her Death and at the Funeral | |
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| Ordinary Objects | |
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| Dream about the Old Mosaic Found in a Syrian Orchard | |
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| The Photograph of My Father at an Early Exhibit of Arshile Gorky | |
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| The Photograph of Ramona Posing while Father Sketches Her in Charcoal | |
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| Apology | |
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| Self-Portrait | |
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| The Artists | |
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| Patient | |
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| Of My Father before the War | |
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| After Your Letter of Elegant Good-bye | |
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| You Tell Me | |
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| Desire | |
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| Tourists | |
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| She Is Six | |
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| Discovering the Photograph of Lloyd, Earl, and Priscilla | |
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| Inventing Father in Las Vegas | |
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| Elegy Written in the Vowels of Her Name | |
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| Enormous Leisure | |
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| At the Magritte Exhibition | |
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| Looking for the Old Rosebud Cemetery | |
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| What I Know about the End of the Second World War | |
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| On Returning to Carthage to Excavate an Ancient Sacrificial Site | |
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| Kiss | |
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| The Poet in the Garret in America | |