CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
1
The Tender Grasses of the Field
The Question Concerning Technology
Canonically Conjugate Variables
Astronomy for Beginners
49 Views of Childhood
Variations on Lamentation
Where the Famous Wish They Had Lived
All Saints
Song of the North American Martyrs
Action Figure
How One Pictures the Angel of History
The Greek for Touch Also Meant Kindle
This World’s Exuberant Surface
Narcissus Old, Anyone Young
Thou Hast Blessed the Work of His Hands
2
Inarticulate
How Small a Virtue Was It?
Work in Silence
A Hint of Mercy in the Weeds
Consolations of Comparison
The Fall / The Unthinkable
Versions of Errors
Origami
On the Origin of Language
Pain Is the History of Consciousness
After Virgil
The Naming of Shadows and Colors
Reading a Line by Leyb Goldin
Thou Shalt Not Love by Ways So Dangerous
Chemical Virtue