Contents
Acknowledgments
Part 1
Lighthouse
Putting the Bird Back in the Sky
Arcade
Song
Cinema Verité
Missing Persons
Mission Statement
My Comfortress of Unsuccess (Mary Austen)
Course in Empire
Islarios
Flâneur
Nocturne
Cosmos
City of Our Making
Part 2
The Uncertainty Pastoral
Desperate Tender
Dark Pastoral
Send My Roots Rain
Notes toward a Social Realism
Sidereal Messengers
Gospel, According to This Very Moment
Part 3
The Arcadia Negotiations
Part 4
The Next Loneliness
I Know If I Find You I Will Have to Leave the Earth
For the World’s Great Economies
The Hunger
Night Vision
Evangelical Economics
And When I Waked I Cried to Dream Again
The Eden Archives
Notes
Kuhl House Poets