Acknowledgments
Contents
I.
Ping-Pong with the Nazis
Hard Water
Last Peaches, Chalfont St. Giles, 1665
Horse Girl
Terrace on the Val Venosta
The Persistence of Memory: Houston, 2001
1962
An Atonement
The New Bed
Spring Fever
Dirty Laundry
Along the Troubled Shore
Object Lessons
Young Retrievers: Near Oxford, 1973
The Traveler from Porlock Makes a Journal Entry, July 1797
Visiting Grandma Emma
Unsettled Accounts
Dance Lesson: Oakland Veterans’ Memorial Hall
In Venice Ghetto, 2006
Lovebirds
The Jewish Cemetery on the Lido
The Nest
Stung
Padova Pilgrimage
Arbeit Macht Frei
Last Judgment in Ferrara
II.
The Shadow Racers
St. Peter’s on the Mountainside
Camping with Jarrell
Gold Panning on the Arkansas River near Leadville, Colorado
China in Italy
A Scholar’s Suicide
Einstein’s Bellhop
The Lion at the Fountain
Passovers
Feuds
“Crazy-bucks”
Terra-Cotta
Live Fire
In Vain: Chekhov Curses a Production of Uncle Vanya
Catching Lizards near Vicenza
Notes from the Temple
Nocturne with Revolver, Moscow, 1930
Duet
Past Midnight, I Soak My Feet, Ravenna, 1317
Harvest Home, Northamptonshire, 1644
From Jerusalem Hill
Indigo
Dorothy, Middle-Aged
The Final Toast
Heaven and Hell in the Arena Chapel
Hearing the Beat
The South Tower
Shells
Putting It Together
Notes