Paper Trail: Selected Prose, 1965-2003 Book

	On poetry
	A consideration of the writings of Emily Dickinson, 1973	3
	To be, while still becoming : a note on the lyric verse of Mark van Doren, 1973	27
	Dreadful alternatives : a note on Robert Penn Warren, 1975	39
	The resonance of Henry James in American poetry, 1988	44
	Marianne Moore and the monkey business of modernism, 1990	55
	Sharing secrets, 1992	71
	Things forgot : the education of the poet, 1996	85
	On French literature
	Childhood amnesia, 1969	97
	A note on Roland Barthes's S/Z, 1974	102
	A note on Renaud Camus's Tricks, 1981	105
	A note on Les Fleurs du Mal, 1982	108
	A note on Past tense : The Cocteau diaries, volume one, 1987	111
	A note on Julien Gracq's Balcony in the forest, 1987	115
	From exoticism to homosexuality, 1989	119
	Invitation to the voyages of Xavier de Maistre, 1994	128
	Yourcenar composed, 1994	133
	Divination by ashes : an introduction to Claude Simon, 1995	148
	A note on The Charterhouse of Parma, 1999	156
	A welcome return :. on Gide's Journals, 2000	161
	The cruel guest : Alphonse Daudet's In the land of pain, 2003	166
	An introduction to In search of lost time, 2003	174
	On the visual arts
	People figures, 1970	185
	Fragments of a "Rodin", 1974	188
	Eleven caprices on the work of Michel Delacroix, 1990	199
	On Michael Lekakis, 1975	217
	Lee listening, 1984	224
	Bald heads, 1985	228
	The nude, 1987	233
	The Mapplethorpe effect, 1988	243
	The Menil collection, 1990	253
	Brassai the writer, 1999	260
	On Lepanto : an appreciation of Cy Twombly, 2001	269
	On prose
	What is a neoclassic?, 1965	281
	Jane Austen : poetry and anti-poetry, 1986	285
	Apart : hearing secret harmonies in Esther, 1987	297
	A description of Susan Sontag's "Description (of a description)" 1988	309
	An international episode : Henry James and George Sand, 1989	317
	Introducing new poets
	Eleanor Ross Taylor : Welcome Eumenides, 1972	339
	Cynthia Macdonald : Amputations, 1972	342
	Frank Bidart : Golden state, 1973	346
	Kenneth Rosen : Whole horse, 1973	349
	Constance Urdang : The picnic in the cemetery, 1975	353
	Turner Cassity : Yellow for peril, black for beautiful, 1975	357
	Norman Dubie : The illustrations, 1977	362
	Madeline DeFrees : When sky lets go, 1978	366
	J. D. McClatchy : Scenes from another life, 1981	370
	Rika Lesser : Etruscan things, 1983	373
	Paul Kane : The farther shore, 1989	377
	S. X. Rosenstock : United artists, 1996	380
	Sarah Getty : The land of milk and honey, 1996	382
	Robert Hahn : All clear, 1996	384
	James Cummins : Portrait in a spoon, 1997	386
	Sidney Wade : Green, 1998	389
	Vickie Karp : A taxi to the flame, 1999	392
	Carl Buchanan : Ripper!, 1999	395
	Stella Johnston : Without a witness, 2000	397
	Bryan Dietrich : Krypton nights, 2002	399
	An excursion to the exterior : Manila clipper, 1987	405