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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Editor's Note -- Introduction -- What Is Good (1988) -- I -- She Speaks -- Yom Kippur -- Father -- Shabbos -- Dishes -- Accident -- Piecing -- Saying Goodbye to the Property -- What Is Good -- II -- Family -- Worry about Meaning -- Helios at Bread Loaf, the Album -- With Stanley Kunitz at the Car Wash -- The Man -- Women Raised in the Fifties -- Shame, or the Computer Uses of Natural Language -- Assignment -- Three Ways of Looking at It -- Trying to Buy off Death -- Lacunae -- III -- What Happened This Summer -- Divorce -- Detail -- 1 September, 100 Degrees -- Journal Entry: The Tropics -- A Meeting with My Ex-Husband -- Version -- Pain -- Small Shelter -- High Ground -- IV -- Some Other Women Now -- Plate xii -- Widow -- Lot's Wives -- Gossip -- She -- Oracle -- Pregnant Woman -- Visitant -- Cradle -- I Am Sick -- Visions -- V -- Jan's Orchard, Nebraska -- Locus -- Sex -- Alone -- Late March -- Look -- Piecing the Universe Together with Dresses -- Friend in a Distant City -- Advice -- I Can't. Yes, You Can. -- C3 -- Prospectus -- Life Outside the Self: The Uncertainty Principle -- The Bone Dish (1989) -- That's Something -- Sarah's Wing -- April Teaching, Outstate Nebraska -- Diction -- Native -- Words -- Birthday -- November Night Driving -- Town/ County -- Bear -- The Sandhills, Early Winter -- Conversation -- Photograph of a Child Sleeping -- What Happens -- My Daughter Home from College Tells Me about the Gods -- Ambition -- September: Getting Married Again -- My Dream, Your Dream -- Inside the Geese -- Divine Honors (1997) -- Prologue -- Repair -- Narrative without People -- Let's consider the consequences -- Isaac Stern's Performance -- I -- I Hear the Name of the Moon and Am Afraid -- Weathering/ boundaries/ what is good -- To Explain -- Mu -- Coming Down with Something.