Part 1 - Elegiac concerns - "Butcher’s Dozen", "A Selected Life", "Vertical Man", "The Good Fight". Part 2 - Psychic geography - "One", "A Technical Supplement", "Song of the Night", "The Messenger". Part 3 - Historical particulars - "Songs of the Psyche", "Her Vertical Smile", "Out of Ireland", "St Catherine’s Clock". Part 4 - Political matters - "One Fond Embrace", "Personal Places", "poems from Center City", "Madonna and Other poems", "Open Court". Conclusion - "The Pen Shop", The Familiar", "Godhead"