Where Books Fall Open: A Readers Anthology of Wit and Passion: A Reader's Anthology of Wit and Passion Book

	If On a Winter's Night a Traveler	3
	Ruined by Reading	5
	Summertime and the Reading Is Heavey	6
	Reading Something in the Restaurant	12
	Listening to the Radio	14
	Reading Goals	15
	The Pleasures of Reading	17
	The Library in the Garret	18
	The Back Bedroom	19
	How to Organize a Public Library	21
	Ethereal Mildness	24
	Books Are for Reading	28
	Never Do That to a Book	30
	Poem White Page White Page Poem	37
	Purity	38
	The Joy of Writing	40
	The Poet	42
	Afternoon in the House	43
	The Notebooks of Maulte Laurids Brigge	44
	Seeds of Poetry	46
	English B	47
	Opportunities in Poetry	49
	Word	50
	Word Music	51
	This Monkey, My Back	53
	If I Die Solvent	55
	Poetry's Value	56
	My Curtains: Snowbound from Having a Baby, Finishing a Book	57
	The Poet	59
	An Old Prayer	60
	Psalm to Snake	61
	A Word from the Words from Pure Drivel	62
	The Writer	65
	Writing: A Life Sentence	67
	Sign Writing	72
	from A History of Reading	77
	Learning to Read	80
	Because of Libraries We Can Say These Things	82
	Story Books on a Kitchen Table	84
	The Book	85
	from Don Quijote	87
	On Reading an Old Baedeker in Schloss Leopoldskron	89
	Lives of the Nineteenth-Century Poetesses	91
	Reading Lists	92
	Prisoners	93
	The Poet	95
	And Yet the Books	96
	Where Books Fall Open	99
	On Reading	101
	from The Common Reader	102
	Poetry	104
	Teaching Emily Dickinson	105
	Library Scene	106
	Love in the Valley	108
	from Northanger Abbey	110
	Becoming a Reader	111
	Maple Valley Branch Library, 1967	113
	from Swann's Way	115
	Children Selecting Books in a Library	116
	Watching the Commuters Read	118
	Reading Tu Fu, I Wait for My Husband	121
	The Trouble with Reading	123
	The Vicarious Activity	124
	Books	126
	April 2	128
	Gentle Reader	129
	This Poem	130
	6 x 10 x [infinity]	133
	A Little Treatise on Ways of Reading	134
	Reading Myself to Sleep	137
	Ars Poetica	139
	The Night, The Porch	141
	Acknowledgments	143
	The Paintings	144
	Credits	145