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Tables of Contents for Negative Blue
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Chickamauga
Sitting Outside at the End of Autumn
3
1
Reading Lao Tzu Again in the New Year
4
2
Under the Nine Trees in January
6
1
After Reading Wang Wei, I Go Outside to the Full Moon
7
1
Easter 1989
8
2
Reading Rorty and Paul Celan One Morning in Early June
10
2
After Reading Tu Fu, I Go Outside to the Dwarf Orchard
12
1
Thinking of David Summers at the Beginning of Winter
13
1
Cicada
14
2
Tennessee Line
16
2
Looking Outside the Cabin Window, I Remember a Line by Li Po
18
1
Mid-winter Snowfall in the Piazza Dante
19
2
Sprung Narratives
21
9
Broken English
30
1
Maple on the Hill
31
2
Chickamauga
33
1
Still Life on a Matchbox Lid
34
1
Blaise Pascal Lip-syncs the Void
35
1
Winter-Worship
36
1
The Silent Generation
37
1
An Ordinary Afternoon in Charlottesville
38
1
Mondo Angelico
39
1
Mondo Henbane
40
1
Miles Davis and Elizabeth Bishop Fake the Break
41
1
Peccatology
42
1
East of the Blue Ridge, Our Tombs Are in the Dove's Throat
43
1
``Not everyone can see the truth, but he can be it''
44
1
As Our Bodies Rise, Our Names Turn into Light
45
1
Absence Inside an Absence
46
1
Still Life with Spring and Time to Burn
47
1
With Simic and Marinetti at the Giubbe Rosse
48
1
To the Egyptian Mummy in the Etruscan Museum at Cortona
49
2
With Eddie and Nancy in Arezzo at the Caffe Grande
51
1
There Is No Shelter
52
1
Watching the Equinox Arrive in Charlottesville, September 1992
53
3
Waiting for Tu Fu
56
3
Paesaggio Notturno
59
1
Still Life with Stick and Word
60
1
Summer Storm
61
1
Looking West from Laguna Beach at Night
62
1
Looking Again at What I Looked At for Seventeen Years
63
1
Looking Across Laguna Canyon at Dusk, West-by-Northwest
64
1
Venexia I
65
1
Venexia II
66
1
Yard Work
67
4
Black Zodiac
Apologia Pro Vita Sua
71
15
Envoi
86
2
Poem Half in the Manner of Li Ho
88
2
Meditation on Form and Measure
90
3
Poem Almost Wholly in My Own Manner
93
3
Meditation on Summer and Shapelessness
96
3
The Appalachian Book of the Dead
99
2
Umbrian Dreams
101
1
October II
102
1
Lives of the Saints
103
5
Christmas East of the Blue Ridge
108
1
Negatives II
109
1
Lives of the Artists
110
5
Deep Measure
115
1
Thinking of Winter at the Beginning of Summer
116
1
Jesuit Graves
117
1
Meditation on Song and Structure
118
4
Sitting at Dusk in the Back Yard After the Mondrian Retrospective
122
2
Black Zodiac
124
4
China Mail
128
1
Disjecta Membra
129
16
Appalachia
Stray Paragraphs in February, Year of the Rat
145
1
Stray Paragraphs in April, Year of the Rat
146
1
Basic Dialogue
147
1
Star Turn
148
1
A Bad Memory Makes You a Metaphysician, a Good One Makes You a Saint
149
1
Thinking about the Poet Larry Levis One Afternoon in Late May
150
1
In the Kingdom of the Past, the Brown-Eyed Man Is King
151
1
Passing the Morning under the Serenissima
152
1
Venetian Dog
153
1
In the Valley of the Magra
154
1
Returned to the Yaak Cabin, I Overhear an Old Greek Song
155
1
Ars Poetica II
156
1
Cicada Blue
157
1
All Landscape Is Abstract, and Tends to Repeat Itself
158
1
Opus Posthumous
159
1
Quotations
160
2
The Appalachian Book of the Dead II
162
1
Indian Summer II
163
1
Autumn's Sidereal, November's a Ball and Chain
164
1
The Writing Life
165
1
Reply to Wang Wei
166
1
Giorgio Morandi and the Talking Eternity Blues
167
1
Drone and Ostinato
168
1
Ostinato and Drone
169
1
``It's Turtles All the Way Down''
170
1
Half February
171
1
Back Yard Boogie Woogie
172
1
The Appalachian Book of the Dead III
173
1
Opus Posthumus II
174
1
Body Language
175
1
``When You're Lost in Juarez, in the Rain, and It's Eastertime Too''
176
1
The Appalachian Book of the Dead IV
177
1
Spring Storm
178
1
Early Saturday Afternoon, Early Evening
179
1
``The Holy Ghost Asketh for Us with Mourning and Weeping Unspeakable''
180
1
The Appalachian Book of the Dead V
181
1
Star Turn II
182
1
After Reading T'ao Ch'ing, I Wander Untethered Through the Short Grass
183
1
Remembering Spello, Sitting Outside in Prampolini's Garden
184
2
After Rereading Robert Graves, I Go Outside to Get My Head Together
186
1
American Twilight
187
1
The Appalachian Book of the Dead VI
188
1
Landscape as Metaphor, Landscape as Fate and a Happy Life
189
1
Opus Posthumus III
190
3
North American Bear
Step-children of Paradise
193
1
Freezing Rain
194
1
Thinking about the Night Sky, I Remember a Poem by Tu Fu
195
1
North American Bear
196
3
If You Talk the Talk, You Better Walk the Walk
199
1
St. Augustine and the Arctic Bear
200
1
Sky Diving
201
2
Notes
203