Bright Pages: Yale Writers, 1701-2001 Book

	Introduction
	from Hiroshima	4
	Masts at Dawn	15
	Birth of Love	16
	Rattlesnake Country	17
	Evening Hawk	22
	Adam's Task	26
	The Mad Potter	26
	An Old-Fashioned Song	29
	X's Syndrome	30
	Miserere	33
	from Here at "The New Yorker"	50
	from A Night to Remember	55
	from Battle Report	63
	National Cold Storage Company	64
	Riding Westward	65
	from A Separate Peace	67
	from Peter the Great	74
	Lumumba Lives	88
	The Harpsichord	114
	from The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914	124
	from The Mysteries Within	146
	A Bamboo Brushpot	158
	Wild Ducks	159
	The Tack	159
	At Snowbird	165
	Cape Cod Beach	165
	The Battle Against Humbaba	166
	from the Destiny of Me	168
	from Messages from My Father	174
	from The Bonfire of the Vanities	181
	from The Dining Room	196
	The Cure	200
	The Next Time	204
	Some Last Words	205
	The View	206
	from King of the Jews	208
	from Six Degrees of Separation	212
	The Lion and Me	220
	Nabokov's Blues	229
	Onions	231
	107th & Amsterdam	232
	from The Bushwhacked Piano	234
	Puck	240
	Things Left Undone	259
	from The Bundled Doonesbury: A Pre-Millennial Anthology	278
	Garbo	281
	Music Lessons	281
	Small Town	282
	The Past	283
	from Terra Nova	285
	The U.S.A. Today	296
	Apologia	296
	My Poem Meets Tamerlane	298
	What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?	300
	Moment	310
	5 P.M.	310
	Portrait: Marriage	311
	from The Heidi Chronicles	314
	Deer Isle	324
	I-91	324
	Five Islands	325
	During the Balkans War	326
	from La Bete	328
	Mystery Date	350
	The Memory-Glass	351
	Crossing St. Gotthard	354
	from The Women of Brewster Place	368
	The Venus Hottentot	381
	Stravinsky in L.A.	384
	The Volunteers	386
	A Simple Tale	404
	Oh Muse	414
	To Be In My Own Body As	416
	Commands for the End of Summer	419
	Blue Octavo Haiku	420
	And This Time I Mean It	421
	Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God	426
	from The Columbiad	440
	from M'Fingal	445
	Columbia	449
	from Dissertations on the English Language	452
	The Fugitive Slave's Apostrophe to the North Star	459
	from The Pioneers	463
	The Confessional	471
	Unseen Spirits	474
	City Lyrics	475
	To Charles Roux, of Switzerland	476
	The Blue and the Gray	478
	from Life with Father	481
	from Stover at Yale	489
	from Babbitt	500
	Ars Poetica	509
	You, Andrew Marvell	510
	Landscape as a Nude	511
	from The Philadelphia Story	513
	American Names	537
	The Devil and Daniel Webster	538
	Bull Dog	551
	Antoinette Birby	551
	We Are Prom Girls	553
	A Member of the Yale Elizabethan Club	553
	I Want to Row on the Crew	554
	I've a Shooting Box in Scotland	555
	Just One of Those Things	557
	Anything Goes	558
	I Get a Kick Out of You	560
	Pullman Car Hiawatha	562