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Tables of Contents for Always Beginning
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Part One
Excerpts from a June Journal
5
6
Beans
11
4
June 1, 1991: Sleeping Late
15
2
June 16, 1991: Final Foal
17
4
Journal Entry, PoBiz, Texas
21
4
Notes from My Journal, Kyoto, December 1984
25
4
Part Two
Interstices
29
10
Swimming and Writing
39
8
Motherhood and Poetics
47
10
October 4, 1995
57
14
For Anne at Passover
71
6
Recitations
77
8
First Loves
85
4
Part Three
An Appreciation of Marianne Moore's Selected Letters
89
8
This Curious Silent Unrepresented Life
97
4
Josephine Jacobsen
101
8
Back to the Fairground: Mona Van Duyn
109
4
A Postcard from the Volcano
113
2
Essay on Robert Frost
115
8
Part Four
Trochee, Trimeter, and the MRI: On A Shropshire Lad
123
10
Gymnastics: The Villanelle
133
8
A Way of Staying Sane
141
8
Word for Word: ``Poem for My Son''
149
4
Scrubbed Up and Sent to School
153
10
Part Five
Keynote Address, PEN-New England, April 11, 1999
163
6
Premonitory Shiver
169
18
Two Junes
187
8
Part Six
Interview
195
42
About the Author
237