Contents
Prologue: Reading and Writing Spiritual Utility
1.1 Ecstatic Émigré
1. Preliminaries
2. Apology
A Concrete Memoir
from Without Sovereignty
“It Might Have Begun Differently”
Revising the Parade: Against the Poetry of Witness
Reclaiming Paradise
A Hinge-History: Robinson Jeffers and Brenda Hillman
A Garden Is a Frame Structure
from Erasing Names, Multiplying Alliances (Salt Lake City via Memphis via Las Vegas)
Snow in America (Boston)
Nearing Cradle
Native Stranger
Lessons of the Whirlwind
The Citizen-Stranger: An Ethics of Definition
The Instant
1.2 Occasional Prose, Interviews
Interview for The Range of the Possible, conducted by Tod Marshall (The Secularist and Utopic)
Interview for Barrow Street, conducted by Derek Pollard (Utopic and The Devotion Field)
The Poet on the Poem: For My Lost Original: Elegy Is a Seeking in “Everybody’s Autobiography” (Missing Her)
Interview for Omnidawn Press, conducted by Rusty Morrison (Truth of My Songs: Poems of the Trobairitz)
Poetics Statement for Poetry Society of America, “In Their Own Words” (O, Heart)
Interview with Thomas Barkman for Barrow Street (O, Heart)
Bibliography