The book, all of it
154 poems, every one of them written. The tiles showing artwork have been carved as well; the plain ones are waiting for their sculptures. Each is titled here as it is titled in the book, and numbered after the Shakespeare sonnet it answers.
Sensing
Part I. Sensing
The opening movement: desire, beauty, and the body's first arguments with time.
3 carved · 14 written, waiting to be carved
Knowing
Part II. Knowing
Poems of the mind watching itself — flattery, deceit, and the strange mathematics of devotion.
5 carved · 42 written, waiting to be carved
Recovering
Part III. Recovering
Absence, loss, and the slow work of getting something back changed.
4 carved · 38 written, waiting to be carved
Loving
Part IV. Loving
The heart of the sequence — love spoken plainly, obliquely, desperately.
3 carved · 6 written, waiting to be carved
Rebelling
Part V. Rebelling
Against time, against convention, against the beloved, against the poem.
3 carved · 31 written, waiting to be carved
Accepting
Part VI. Accepting
The late poems: what remains when the arguments are done.
2 carved · 3 written, waiting to be carved