CONTENTS
Part One
Blessing
Guns
The Accident
Meanings
Child Mind
Numb
The Field
Cain Continuing
Part Two
Alcove
Rensselaerville
Germantown
The Ditch
House Calls
Bottles
Books
New Heights
The Chiron
Part Three
After
Returning
A Dream
The Old House
Visitors
Plans
Haiti
My Mother’s Letters
The Paths
Voodun
Last Letter
The Operation
Leaving
The Green Bird
Part Four
Back to Germantown
Inga
School
The Maidens of Hades
The Thread of Poetry
The Excursion
College
Aftermath
Mississippi
Jackson
After the Long Day
Hayneville
Safe and Sound
The Other Field
Postscript: Return to Hayneville
Acknowledgments
