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Tables of Contents for Kissing the Bread
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
I. The Magi in Florida
The Magi in Florida, 1988
19
2
About the Beginning
21
2
The Dolls
23
2
Uncle Barney
25
3
Going to Connecticut
28
3
Thirty Years Later I Meet Your Seventeen-Year-Old Daughter the Poet
31
3
The Mall
34
2
Seizure
36
1
The Outsider
37
2
Broth
39
1
Indoor Camellia
40
2
Journal Entry, 1984
42
2
Mother-in-Law
44
1
In the Garage of the Retirement Complex
45
2
Gold Tooth
47
2
God, He Had a Hat!
49
2
Variations on a Theme
51
2
After the Freeze
53
1
The Scar
54
2
October 31, 1995: A Ghost in Goldwin Smith
56
3
Berkeley, February 11, 1998: The Hypothetical Life
59
2
Ending the Book
61
2
The Tidal Wave
63
2
Walking the Seawall
65
4
II. Want
Death
69
3
Code Blue, ICU, Bed 5
72
3
Talk Show
75
2
Against Poetry
77
1
Want
78
5
Kilninian Kirkyard
78
1
The Dead
79
2
I Am
81
2
The Mountains
83
2
Memory Fails
85
4
Some Definitions
89
19
Aperitif
89
1
These Old Keys
90
1
October Cobwebs
91
1
Basil
92
1
Fog on the Coast
93
2
Pumpkin
95
1
Enormous Wind
96
1
Mexican Sage
97
1
November Afternoon
98
1
Spoon
99
1
Leaves
100
1
December
101
1
After
102
1
Dark Blue
103
1
Trunk
104
1
One Pine Cone in the Fire
105
1
Calvados
106
2
Object Trouve
108
2
After Long Rain
110
1
Omens
111
1
Epithalamion
112
5
III. When She Was Kissed by the Mathematician
When She Was Kissed by the Mathematician
117
2
Her Response to His Theorem
119
1
She Grapples with Operations Research
120
2
He Issues Commands
122
2
He Discusses Gravity
124
1
After He Expounds the Theorem of the Different Infinities
125
2
Long Division
127
2
They Debate Triangles and Medians
129
2
He Explains the Book Proof
131
4
IV. At Cleopatra Bay
At Cleopatra Bay
135
2
Sorrow
137
2
Shelling Beans Outside Pollenca
139
1
Aurora Borealis
140
2
Last Sunday at Les Grands Eaux Musicales
142
2
Autumn, Como
144
7
Olives
144
1
Poets
145
1
Bread
146
1
Wind
147
1
Castle
148
1
Evening Rain
149
1
Morning Rain
150
1
Notes in Provence
151
3
Dante
151
2
Van Gogh
153
1
Catedral at Tlacolula
154
1
Trionfo del Morte
155
5
Dream
155
2
Cookbook
157
1
Museum
158
2
Hurtigruten
160
11
Alesund: North
160
2
Ornes: Midnight Sun
162
2
Salt Fjord: Arctic
164
1
Lyngstuva: One A.M.
165
1
Trollfjorden: Gerda
166
2
Nordkappbanken: Open Sea
168
3
V. From Ghost Volcano (1995)
Kissing the Bread
171
5
October 6, 1992: Seattle, Looking for Mount Rainier
176
2
February 11, 1992: At the Art Institute of Chicago
178
2
May 3, 1992: On the Surface
180
3
June 15, 1992: Widow's Walk, Harpswell, Maine
183
2
September 10, 1992: Picking Wildflowers in New Hampshire
185
2
November 26, 1992: Thanksgiving at the Sea Ranch, Contemplating Metempsychosis
187
2
from Water Music
189
8
Hard Water
189
2
Brine
191
2
The Water Table
193
1
The Lake
194
2
Rain
196
1
Spring Equinox, 1993: Puerto Vallarta, Playa de los Muertos
197
2
Calla Lilies
199
1
February 11, 1994: Berkeley, Anniversary Waltz Again
200
5
VI. From Blood Pressure (1988)
from The Love Sequence
205
15
You Discover You're in Love with the Dead Prince
205
2
How You Fell
207
2
You Meet the Real Dream Mother-in-Law
209
2
The One He Loves
211
2
The Love Sickness
213
1
The Last Poem about the Snow Queen
214
2
A Year Later
216
2
The Return of the Muse
218
2
Accident
220
1
Blood Pressure
221
2
In the Golden Sala
223
2
Grandpa
225
2
My Grandmother in Paris
227
3
Anniversary Waltz
230
2
Ponce de Leon
232
2
2085
234
5
VII. From Emily's Bread (1984)
For the Muses
239
2
The Dressmaker's Dummy
241
2
On the Third Hand
243
2
Emily's Bread
245
2
Daguerreotype: Governess
247
1
Daguerreotype: ``Fallen'' Woman
248
1
Daguerreotype: Wet Nurse
249
1
Bas Relief: Bacchante
250
2
Sculpture: Naiad/Fountain
252
2
Elegy
254
1
The Night Grandma Died
255
1
Simplicity
256
2
Sitting
258
2
The Emily Dickinson Black Cake Walk
260
5
VIII. The Summer Kitchen (1983)
The Summer Kitchen
265
3
The Brussels Sprouts
268
1
Five Potatoes
269
1
Turnips
270
1
The Leeks
271
2
Ginger Root
273
1
The Carrots
274
2
The Red Cabbages
276
2
Beets
278
2
The Wild Grasses
280
1
Autumn Song
281
1
The Celery Bushes
282
1
The Language of Flowers
283
10
Geranium
283
1
Impatiens
284
1
Lilies of the Nile
285
1
Petunias
286
1
Bougainvillea
287
1
Roses
288
1
Daisies
289
4
IX. From In the Fourth World (1979)
Getting Fired, or ``Not Being Retained''
293
3
The Intruder
296
2
The Giant Rat of Sumatra
298
2
Her Last Sickness
300
1
After a Death
301
1
Mafioso
302
1
Shell Collecting
303
2
Grandmother
305
1
The Dream of the Sun
306
1
The Cassandra Dream
307
1
The Milk Dream
308
1
The Dream of My Daughter
309
2
The Grandmother Dream
311
1
Doing Laundry
312
1
Tailors
313
1
The Fireflies
314
1
In the Fourth World
315
2
Index of Titles and First Lines
317