Introduction: Everywhere and Always
pt. 1: The Self, Jeopardy, and Song. 1. Poised on a Mountain Peak, Floating on the Ocean. 2. The Dinner Party and the Sailor at War. 3. The Embodied Self. 4. The Edge as Threshold. 5. Bags Full of Havoc. 6. The Two Survivals. 7. The Powers of Poetry
pt. 2: Trauma and Transformation. 8. The Dangerous Angel. 9. Convulsive Transformation of the Overculture. 10. Wordsworth and the Permanent Forms. 11. Keats and the Ardor of the Pursuer. 12. Whitman and the Habit of Dazzle. 13. Dickinson and the Brain's Haunted Corridors. 14. Wilfred Owen and the Horrors of War. 15. The Quest and the Dangerous Path. 16. Constellations and Medicine Pouches
App. A: Sacred and Secular Lyric.