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- The Expectations of Light
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- 2014
- Published by: Princeton University Press
- Series: Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets
Originally published in 1981.
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Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. xi-xii
- PART I
- In Order to Perceive
- pp. 3-4
- Containment
- p. 5
- The Reincarnated
- p. 10
- Suppose Your Father Was a Redbird
- pp. 11-12
- Without Violence
- p. 13
- Coming of Age
- p. 14
- For Stephen Drawing Birds
- pp. 15-16
- Struck Seven Times
- pp. 17-18
- Watching Dreams
- pp. 19-20
- The Caretakers
- p. 21
- The Rites of Passage
- pp. 22-24
- PART II
- How to Stay Safe in the City
- pp. 27-28
- How You Came
- p. 29
- Being Defined
- p. 31
- Seduced by Ear Alone
- p. 32
- The First Norther
- p. 34
- Achieving Perspective
- pp. 35-36
- Trying Magic
- p. 39
- Crocodile God
- p. 41
- How the Moon Becomes Itself
- pp. 43-44
- PART III
- Illumination
- p. 47
- The Man Hidden Behind the Drapes
- pp. 51-52
- What the Body Means to Belief
- pp. 59-60
- An Act of Conviction
- pp. 61-62
- Handling Despair
- pp. 63-64
- Determining Location
- pp. 65-66
- The Determinations of the Scene
- pp. 67-68
- Being of This State
- p. 69
- Supposition
- p. 70
- How the Scene Influences Occasions
- pp. 71-72
- The Success of the Hunt
- pp. 73-74
- PART IV
- Making a History
- p. 80
- Seeing the Glory
- p. 84
- The Literary Man
- p. 87
- All the Elements of the Scene
- pp. 90-91
- The Literary Adventure
- pp. 93-94
- The Fear of Falling
- p. 96
- Capturing the Scene
- p. 97
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