• Introduction: The Two Poetries

I. The Pensive Man: The Pensive Style

II. Fugal Requiems The Comedian as the Letter C, Sunday Morning, Le Monocle de Mon Oncle

III. The Sausage Maker Like Decorations in a Nigger Cemetery and Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird

IV. The Volcano Apostrophe, The Sea Behold Owl’s Clover

V. A Duct with the Undertaker The Man with the Blue Guitar

VI. Abecedarium of Finesoldier Examination of the Hero in a Time of War

VII. The Amassing Harmony Notes toward a Supreme Fiction

VIII. The Metaphysical Changes Esthetique du Mal and Description without Place

IX. Douceurs, Tristesses Credences of Sunnner and The Auroras of Autumn

X. The Total Leaflessness An Ordinary Evening in New Haven

XI. Naked Alpha: Epilogue

• Notes