The Executive Director of the Fallen World

Acknowledgments, xi

In My Memory Eddie

Now

Back to Country with Pulitzer

Song Years  

In Memoriam: (Harriet)

Sarcastic Caustic Ironic Satiric Sardonic Funny: Wounding Poetry

Disgust

When the Parents Went

Mental Mommy

The One at the Oars

Family Plot

Your Tales of the Suburbs

Handmade Shoes

The Worry of the Far Right

Who’s in Charge of the Culture Now?

One for the Guys and for Robert DeNiro

Corner Man

Jack Warden

Larkin

Third Star with Guggenheim

Woman in the Summer Southern Night

Fat Southern Men in Summer Suits

Twenty-Three

Twenty-Four

San Francisco 1970, Years After the Summer of Love

Best Friend

Peyote

The Old Man and the Motorcycle

About the Money

Ronald Beaver’s Life in England

I Get a Feeling

Off to the Country of Cancer

This Summer

First Marriage

Beautiful, Sane Women

Ever Upon the Gad

Our Last Period Together

The Cruel Numbers of Love

So We’ll Go No More

Cold and Soon

Always

Soon the City