Durations -- Instrumental bones: interview with Dave Johnson -- Poetry & music -- Butterscotch ripple -- Old haunts -- Layered vision -- A note on prose, verse, and the line -- The poetry blues -- Some thoughts on The Book of Nightmares -- Merida, 1969 -- Awkward -- Bad lines -- 100 sentences -- The soul of brevity -- Sad stories and true -- Privacies -- People like us -- The precisions of passion -- Photographs of nude women -- Miss Bishop -- Nurse sharks -- Sentimental villainy -- Hail, muse! Et cetera -- Journal entries -- Mingus at the Showplace: interview with Sascha Feinstein.

The pleasure of experience, the experience of pleasure: interview with Peter Davison -- The complaint.