Table of Contents

Contents 1 Coefficient Salt Marsh, Thick with Behaviors Table of Consanguinity (The Cousin Chart) Diminution of the Clear Thing Half Seas Over Jardins sous la Ppluie Sweet Habit of the Blood Is He Decently Put Back Together? Under the Veil of Wildness Coming to the Festival of the God of Boundaries Makes an Arrangement Return of the Native to the Widespread Hour Midlander Thicket Play Honey Ants Recessive Sending Owls to Athens William James, Henry James Arethusa Arrowsic Eidothea Sunrise with Sea Monsters Where Hardly Hearth Exists 2 Sonnet on Fire The Bad Infinity Baroque Miscellany Baroque A General Discrimination of Synonyms Baroque Antonyms & Intermediaries Baroque First Inspirations of the Nitrous Oxide, Pneumatic Institute, 1799 Baroque Second Inspirations of the Nitrous Oxide 3 Disheveled Holiness Medieval Physics A Boredom of Spirit Gothic Tropical Film in Place of a Legal Document Japonisme Against the Throne and Monarchy of God Acousmatic The Orator's Maximal Likelihood The Beauty of Where We Have Been Living Anatomy of Listening Sighting If It Be Not Now Ovation Morse Gives Up Portraiture Intrinsic Intimations Constable of the Sweet Oblong Work Salon/Saloon Strokes Building Box (Atlantic) Posthumous Oratorium Summer Reading Notes Acknowledgments

About the Author

Sarah Gridley is Assistant Professor and Poet in Residence at Case Western Reserve University and is the author of Weather Eye Open (UC Press).

Reviews

"Orator's speech springs from revelation and desire, but its heart is in its observational exactness and reticence." Kenyon Review