Prologue : Brooklyn Bridge -- When a woman loves a man -- The gift -- Who he was -- Laura -- The human factor -- The double agent -- The magician -- Job and his accusers -- Greenhouses and gardens -- Wittgenstein's ladder -- Sestina : when he called the lawyer -- To the moon -- My life in music -- The old constellation -- Radio -- Psalm -- Anna K. -- Space is limited -- Melancholy superior to indolence -- Sin city -- Six almonds -- To the author of Glare -- Ode to Buddhism -- In Freud's house -- The prophet's lantern -- Abecedarius -- Questions to ask for a Paris Review interview -- Big hair -- Denmark : a tragedy -- A history of modern poetry -- PC -- SF -- Personal -- One day at a time.