"Edward Lynskey has given the force of his fine talent and the strong faith of his poetry, to the people of this world... And the poems bountifully reward his readers." -Fred Chappell, University of North Carolina, Greensboro. "It is good to have these poems. Lynskey is well worth reading, and the best poems in this volume leave the reader looking forward to the next." -O. B. Hardison, Small Press Review. "The title poems reveal Lynskey's gift in what he does best: seeing beauty in the ugly, putting the job, the ordinary work, within a context of wonder and ritual." -Shelby Stephenson, The Pilot, North Carolina.
- Cover
- Table of Contents
- Foreword
- Part I — Relationships
- The Lame Shall Enter First
- Lights Over Quantico, USMC
- Turnip Patch Kids
- The Night Light
- Lillian's Chair
- Windless Orchards
- Bad Apples
- The Hyacinth Girl
- Pink Flamingos
- Kiss of Kin
- Polio Summers
- Part II — Rituals
- The Tree Surgeon's Gift
- The Risk of Green
- Shade Tree Mechanics
- Inside the Gun Factory
- Seasons of the Hunter
- The Duck Corps Rupture
- After Berrypicking
- Never Once
- Storm Windows
- The Whore's Coo
- Choptank Oyster Dredgers
- Bartholomew's Cobbler
- End to Melancholy Questions
- The Tree Surgeon's Alibi
- Death of Cold
- Waifs
- Part III — Places
- White Trash in Summer
- Winter Fields: Getting Through
- Building a Fencerow
- Catching a Flick in Morelia
- Getting Mad and Even
- If He Hollers, Let Him Go
- Mail at My New Address
- Hanging Gardens
- Little Haiti
- Not Out of the Woods
- Caution Lights
- Little Boy Blue
- Something Wrong
- Summons to Enigma
- Part IV — Biography
- Fallen Angels
- Teeth of the Hydra
- At the Moon's Gate
- The Strange Case of Doctor Mudd
- Hôpital Albert Schweitzer
- Honeycutt Goes Iron
- Mrs. Lincoln Enters Bellevue Place
- Mrs. Lincoln Winters in Nice
- All Her Pretty Ones (Sussex, 1941)
- Portrait of the Outlaw
- How Peter Lorre Could Have Saved My Life
- Trout Fishing
- The Tobacco Queen
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