contents

11 . Between Trains 12 . The Land Is Not Settled 13 . The Hope of Finding Something

14 . Winter with Catherine

15 . While You Sleep 16 . Become Water 17 . At Ink Level, the Sea

18 . The Birds’ Cry 19 . Chess, Perfume, the Sea social class in west waterford

20 . I. Shanbally Terrace 21 . II. The Bourgeois Class, 1962

22 . III. Aristocracy

23 . Largesse 24 . Agapanthus 25 . In a Fruit Cage

26 . Vertigo 27 . Jerusalem 28 . The Late Hour in L. A.

30 . Frantic Venice 31 . The Hour Extends Itself

32 . Shaken to Pieces 33 . Coastal Express

34 . Going Back 35 . The Late Wind 36 . A Gloomy Wakefulness

37 . They Have Left 38 . A Gannet Falls 39 . Rock of Ages