1. Cityfolk and Countryfolk 3 --
II. Invisible Student 23 --
2. "A Good Old Scout" (1929-1936) 25 --
3. An Athlete's Masks (1936-1941) 32 --
4. Postgraduate Blues (1941-1942) 47 --
5. A Cadet's Rites of Passage (Fall 1942) 51 --
III. Journey to War 63 --
6. Failed Pilot (1943-1944) 65 --
7. Brain of the Plane (1945) 83 --
IV. Becoming a Poet 119 --
8. Vanderbilt University (1946-1950) 121 --
V. A King in the Classroom 153 --
9. Rice Institute (1950) 155 --
10. Korean Distraction (1951-1952) 159 --
11. Return to Academe (1952-1954) 171 --
12. Travels in Europe (1954-1955) 181 --
13. Uncle Ez and the Pen Women Scandal (1955-1956) 193 --
VI. Into the Stone: the Advertising Years 205 --
14. Coca-Cola and Jingle Jim (1956-1959) 207 --
15. Potato Chips and Canoe Trips (1959-1961) 240 --
VII. Barnstorming for Poetry 267 --
16. Return to Europe (1961-1962) 269 --
17. A Southerner in Oregon (1963-1964) 288 --
18. California Sojourn (1964-1965) 321 --
19. A Frozen Berkeley (Spring 1966) 335 --
VIII. In Poetry's Catbird Seat 353 --
20. First Term (1966-1967) 355 --
21. Second Term (1967-1968) 374 --
IX. Tenure in South Carolina 397 --
22. "A Starry Place Between the Antlers" (1968) 399 --
23. To the Moon and Hollywood (1969) 423 --
24. A Bestseller (1970) 441 --
25. Making the Movie (1971) 466 --
26. King of the Cats (1971-1972) 495 --
27. Premieres and Their Aftermath (1972-1973) 508 --
28. A Double Vision (1973-1974) 529 --
29. "Star-Beasts of Intellect and Madness" (1975-1976) 549 --
XII. La Vita Nuova 563 --
30. Second Marriage (1976) 565 --
31. Presidential Poet (1977) 574 --
32. New Ventures (1977-1979) 586 --
33. Under the Stone Snows of Mount Saint Helens (1980) 605 --
XIII. Slowly Toward Alnilam 619 --
34. Second Fatherhood (1981-1982) 621 --
35. Puella Troubles (1981-1982) 634 --
36. Poet at Sixty (1982-1985) 647 --
37. Descent into Chaos (1985-1987) 658 --
38. A Blind Ulysses (1987) 671 --
XIV. To the White Sea 687 --
39. Fortunes Rising, Fortunes Falling (1987-1992) 689 --
40. Into the Desolation of Reality (1992-1994) 712 --
41. Heart of the World (1994-1997) 727 --
42. Last Rites (1997) 749.
