Second nature -- The work of poets -- The bridge -- Fun in El Salvador -- Hollywood -- Romance of the poor -- A story of the South Pacific -- Speaking up -- White Mexicans -- Ecology of Heaven -- Born again -- At the miracle mall -- Apocalytpic narrative -- Thirty-one flavors of houses -- At Summerford's nursing home -- On the eleventh anniversary of divorce -- Failed memory exercise -- Progress alley -- Moment of Whitman -- Shame the monsters -- Grand projection -- Counting potatoes -- The privilege -- Threads -- Diplomacy -- Contempt -- The life I did not live -- Meditation at home -- Enough -- Argument over a plastic chair -- The privacy of women -- Fantasia of the bride.
Summary
A poetry collection which instills the keepsakes of fleeting America with a holy spirit and ultimately inks in a map of this place and time that suggests both individual and collective renewal. --Houghton Mifflin.
