Cervantes stretches the resources of language, imagery and the dialectics of love, hunger and aesthetics.
- Cover
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Contents
- I. From the Cables of Genocide
- Drawings: For John Who Said to Write about True Love
- Persona Ingrata
- The Levee: Letter To No One
- The Poet Is Served Her Papers
- Santa Cruz
- Litost
- Politeness Takes Her Turn
- The House He Falls in Love With
- Valentine
- II. On Love and Hunger
- My Dinner with Your Memory
- Raisins
- Night Stand
- On Love and Hunger
- On Speaking to the Dead
- Flatirons
- Death Song
- Abortion
- Colorado
- Hotel
- Colorado Blvd
- On Touring Her Hometown
- To We Who Were Saved by the Stars
- Pleiades from the Cables of Genocide
- III. The Captive Verses
- Europa and Calafia
- The Captive's Verses
- Plenos Poderes
- Le Petit Mal
- Lápiz Azul
- Y Volver
- "Love of My Flesh, Living Death"
- Macho
- Ode to a Ranger
- Daffodils
- IV. On the Fear of Going Down
- On Locomotion
- Walking Around
- Continental Divide
- Buckshot
- Shooting the Wren
- Point Lobos
- The Last Meal
- Fisherman
- On Finding the Slide of John in the Garden
- On the Last Anniversary
- On the Fear of Going Down