Table of Contents

Acknowledgments The Author Reconsiders Epilogue Love and the Soul Two People in Two Houses on a Hill April and May Wires at Inspiration Point Letter to Santa Fe November and December The Puccini Record Again, after a Year The Etruscan Couple in the Villa Giulia Landfall Deb's Dream about Pavese The Minoan Distance Domestic Architecture Wide-Angle Shot: Return to Snowy River The Ambivalent Man Forest Street Rilke's Argument with Don Giovanni The Moments Your Forest-Moonlight Picture Toward the New Year Unanticipated Mirrors Enthusiasm Fire and Flood Highway Restaurant For My Daughter, Leaving Tidepools Notes

About the Author

Alan Williamson is professor of English at the University of California, Davis. He is the author of four books of poems, most recently Love and the Soul and Res Publica, both published by the University of Chicago Press.