Ten windows: how great poems transform the world

Preface --

Kingfishers catching fire: looking with poetry's eyes --

Language wakes up in the morning: on poetry's speaking --

Seeing through words: an introduction to Bashō, Haiku, and the suppleness of image --

Thoreau's hound: poetry and the hidden --

Uncarryable remainders: poetry and uncertainty --

Close reading: windows --

Poetry and the constellation of surprise --

What is American in modern American poetry: a brief primer with poems --

Poetry, transformation, and the column of tears --

Strange reaches, impossibility, and big hidden drawers: poetry and paradox --

Acknowledgments.