Otherwise Book

	Acknowledgments
	Prelude
	Night Fishing in the Sound	3
	Being as I Was, How Could I...	7
	When Asked to Lie Down on the Altar	10
	Ume: Plum	13
	Amelia	17
	Saving the Images	21
	Recurrence in Another Tongue: Homage to "Tristia" and Osip Mandelstam	23
	The Walls	26
	Admonition	32
	Small Passage between Eons	33
	The Love of That Is Not	35
	Operations: Desert Shield, Desert Storm	40
	Bat Cave	44
	The Bird in the Laurel's Song	51
	Afterwards	53
	How to Get in the Best Magazines	55
	The Muse	58
	Out of the Hellespont	60
	Leda's Handmaiden	63
	Ambition	66
	The Lament of the Valkyrie	71
	After the Snow Queen Lost Her Charm	74
	"...as soft and as pink as a nursery..."	80
	The Secret Garden	83
	Last Words	85
	Fears about the Moon	88
	Those Who Come After	91
	Generic Vision, 1991	95
	Atget's Gardens	97
	Demolition	99
	What Was Left Over	101
	Moonsnails	105
	Freed from Another Context	108
	Remedios Varo as Daphne	111
	The Mulch	114
	Recantation	116
	Kazuko's Vision	118
	American Painting, with Rain	120
	Changing the Imperatives	124
	Notes	127