""CONTENTS""; ""FOREWORD""; ""I. The Universe and I""; ""The Universe and I""; ""Women from the 1960s (I)""; ""Women from the 1960s (II)""; ""The Midlands""; ""Calling the Season""; ""Cherry Garden""; ""Destiny""; ""The Captain""; ""The Utopian""; ""Darkness""; ""The Flanders Road""; ""MCMXCVI""; ""The Other Dream""; ""II. Night Flight""; ""Black Stars""; ""Invisible Chain""; ""The Slumber of Books (I)""; ""The Slumber of Books (II)""; ""That Blue Sky""; ""In the Night""; ""Viet Blood""; ""A Bullet Fired into the Night""; ""A Sandal Dropped in a Swamp""; ""Hanoi""; ""Bonn""; ""The Garret""
""Hai Phong""""Little Lap-Tree""; ""Someday""; ""From Behind a Covered Window""; ""Empty Well""; ""Six Billion Minus One Equals Six Billion""; ""III. Road on the Earth""; ""Nightmare""; ""Praise for the Dead""; ""Evening""; ""By the Loiret River""; ""My Stories""; ""Not Speaking""; ""The Man with Big Eyes""; ""Your Hand, the Unending Season""; ""A Tree Has Fallen""; ""Change""; ""Road on the Earth""; ""NOTES""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS""