Refusing Heaven Book

A Brief for the Defense     3
Naked Except for the Jewelry     4
Put Her in the Fields for Kindness     5
What Song Should We Sing     6
Having the Having     7
Say You Love Me     8
Kunstkammer     9
Halloween     10
Elegy for Bob     11
Resume     12
More Than Sixty     13
By Small and Small: Midnight to Four A.M.     14
Once Upon a Time     15
A Close Call     16
The Rooster     17
Failing and Flying     18
Burning     19
The Other Perfection     20
A Ball of Something     21
Getting Away With It     22
Truth     23
Transgressions     24
The Abandoned Valley     25
Happening Apart from What's Happening Around It     26
Exceeding the Spirit     27
Meditation Eleven: Reading Blake Again     28
How Much of That is Left in Me?     29
'Tis Here! 'Tis Here! 'Tis Gone!     30
Ambition     32
Being Young Back Then     33
Not Getting Closer     34
Adults     35
Seen from Above     36
Getting Closer     37
The Mail     38
Less Being More     39
Homage to Wang Wei     40
The Butternut Tree at Fort Juniper     41
Doing Poetry     42
Homesteading     43
The Sweet Taste of the Night     44
Honor     45
Trying to Write Poetry     46
A Kind of Courage     47
Happily Planting the Beans Too Early     48
What to Want     49
Bring in the Gods     50
The Negligible     52
The Lost Hotels of Paris     53
Feathers or Lead     54
What Plenty     56
The Garden     57
Music is in the Piano Only When it is Played     58
Winning on the Black     59
Refusing Heaven     60
The Friendship Inside Us     61
A Thanksgiving Dance     62
Horses at Midnight Without a Moon     63
Immaculate     64
Moreover     65
A Kind of Decorum     66
A Walk Blossoming     67
Farming in Secret      68
December Ninth, 1960     69
Not the Happiness but the Consequence of Happiness     70
Infidelity     71
The Reinvention of Happiness     72
Looking at Pittsburgh from Paris     73
"My Eyes Adored You"     74
Beyond Pleasure     75
Duende     76
The Good Life     77
Flat Hedgehogs     78
Prospero Listening to the Night     79
The End of Paradise     80
The Lost World     81
Maybe Very Happy     82
The Manger of Incidentals     83
The Thirty Favorite Lives: Amager     84
Burma     85
What I've Got     86
Trouble     87
In the Beginning     88
Metier     89
Ylapa     90
A Taste for Grit and Whatever     91
Maybe She is Here     92