Contents
Foreword by Robert Philen
Part I
Days like Survival
By the Entrance to Cordova Mall, I Sat Down and Wept
And Therefore I Have Sailed the Seas and Come
As If from the Dead
Attempted Birdcage Number Three
To Be Free
The New Life
Direction of Fall
My Mother Was No White Dove
E Lucevan le Stelle
Experiment V
In the Badlands
Water Is a Museum
Doppelganger Music
A Shoulder to the Wheel
In Bloom
Along with Whatever Has Not Yet Been Named
To Summon Up a Son
Given Distance,
What Nature Doesn’t Show
Wrote for Luck
My Mother Dated Otis Redding
Flying
Falling
Some Dreams He Forgot
Part II
Dead Boys Club
My Father by the Sea, Supposedly
A Little Iliad
Scraps of an Achilles
On Heroes and Hero Worship
Play Dead
My Immortal
Somewhere Off the Coast of Cyprus
The New Gods
If Orpheus Were Honest with Her
Silent Film, Sound of Glass
Modernism
And This She Knows
A Man Named Property
Natural Selection
Once Thought to Have Been Destroyed
The Shallows
What It Is to Burn
I’ve Known the Garden
Next Year in Gomorrah
A Parking Lot Just Outside the Ruins of Babylon
Alongside the Desiring Machines
Approximately Nothing
Kings Go Forth
Seize the Day
September Songs
Song of the Yet-to-Be-Decided
Soon
Narcissus Before the Rain
Lincoln Park Apocrypha
“God-With-Us”
Acknowledgments