From the Book - First edition.
Raising the dead. Last service ; Under Jocassee ; Taking down the lines ; Fall creek ; Shee-show ; Deep water ; In dismal gorge ; Black-eyed Susans ; Whippoorwill ; Shelton Laurel ; Wolf Laurel ; Speckled trout ; In the barn ; Barn burning: 1967 ; Work, for the night is coming ; The debt ; Watauga county: 1974 ; Burning the field ; At Reid Hartley's junkyard ; Spear point ; Kephart in the Smokies ; Barbed wire ; The search ; Brightleaf ; At Leicester cemetery ; Madison county, June 1999 ; The wolves in the Asheville zoo ; The watch ; Bartram leaves Jocassee ; Carolina parakeet ; The vanquished ; A homestead on the horsepasture ; Bottomland ; Tremor ; Analepsis ; The day the gates closed ; Beyond the dock ; The men who raised the dead
Among the believers. On the border ; Plowing on moonlight ; The corpse bird ; Madison county: 1864 ; On the Watauga ; Before ; The exchange ; A preacher who takes up serpents laments the presence of skeptics in his church ; The afflicted ; The preacher is called to testify for the accused ; Signs ; Animal hides ; The ascent ; From The Mabinogion ; In a springhouse at night ; Blue river ; Spring lizards ; Watershed ; Ginseng ; Lasting water ; Passage ; Barn loft: 1959 ; The fox ; August 1959: morning service ; Abandoned homestead in Watauga county ; Among the believers ; Good Friday 1995, driving westward
Eureka mill. Invocation ; Eureka ; In a dry time ; Mill village ; Low water ; Spring fever ; Accident ; The sweeper ; The famous photographer visits Eureka ; Bearings ; Jokes ; The stretch-out ; Flying squadron ; The ballad of Ella Mae Wiggins ; 1934 ; Black and white ; Boundaries ; Revenant ; Brown lung ; Plane crash ; Listening to WBT ; Last interview ; First shift ; Photograph of my parents outside Eureka Cotton Mill, dated June 1950 ; July 1949
Waking. First memory ; The trout in the springhouse ; Milking traces ; Sleepwalking ; Junk car in snow ; Time flow ; Watauga county: 1959 ; Bonding fire ; Pocketknives ; Shadetree ; Car tags ; Spillcorn ; Emrys ; Mirror ; Woman among lightning: Catawba county fair, 1962 ; Bloodroot ; The reaping ; Elegy for Merle Watson ; White wings ; Resonance ; Three A.M. and the stars were out ; Genealogy ; The code ; The crossing ; The pact ; Good Friday 2006: Shelton Laurel ; Reading the leaves ; Boy in a boxcar ; Pentecost ; Watauga county: 1962 ; Price lake
New poems. Wet moon ; Accent ; The country singer explains her muse ; Weasel ; Tracks ; Moody spring ; The call ; Direction.