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Tables of Contents for The Invention of Secrecy
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
I. At the Close of the Twentieth Century
Hale-Bopp Comes to Ohio
3
2
Homage to the Birds
5
1
The Harrowing of Hell
6
2
A Natural History of Shadows
8
1
Fossil Baby Found
9
1
Fifty-two New Dead Sons of Rameses, One Hundred Thousand New Galaxies
10
1
The Dig
11
2
Emperor Vespasian Cuts Off His Nose to Spite His Face
13
1
Famine
14
1
The Third Day of the Televised War, I Watch a Spider Walk across a Map of the World
15
1
At the Close of the Twentieth Century
16
3
II. The Invention of Secrecy
The Invention of Secrecy
19
1
And So
20
2
The Man Who Found a Poem in Everything
22
3
Visiting Writer, Days Inn
25
1
After the Poetry Festival
26
2
The Discipline of Brick, the Sexuality of Corn
28
2
Working
30
5
III. Quattrocento Angels over Cleveland
Italian Couple Exposed in Photo-Booth Tryst
35
1
Lady Di and Gianni Versace in Stores in Time for the Holidays
36
1
Folding Caravaggio
37
2
The Dancing of the Underwear
39
2
Stregone
41
2
Hotel Bar, Winter, the Middle of Pennsylvania, with Mario Lanza
43
3
The Beatification of Padre Pio
46
1
Tarantella
47
2
Quattrocento Angels over Cleveland
49
2
Naming the Grandmother
51
4
IV. Walking the Mall
Hair
55
1
Cycladic Island Female Statue, British Museum
56
1
The Puncture
57
1
Obsession
58
2
Fecal Fossil Found
60
1
Orange Beetle
61
1
Horses
62
1
Saying the Cold
63
1
Shoes
64
2
Dead Man Revives in Morgue
66
3
A Personal History of Sound, with Locomotive, Stage Murmurs, a Little Latin, a Little Sex
69
3
Walking the Mall
72
2
Sky Burial
74