On the method of this "notebook"
A sand castle
Beginning
The freedom of the maker
The creator in genesis
Praising
The thought of thankfulness
The birth of a new song
Freedom from mood
A sympathetic nature
Metaphor and music
Freedom from imagination
Composing anxiety
The free work of symbols
Forming
Ovid's contests of making
Forming as knowing
Gathering toward abstraction
Rhyming
Rhyme's opening
How rhymes rhyme
Meeting
A freedom of association
The visitors
Persons as makers
Conditions of making
Production and reproduction
The self's materials and the person's reception
The sand castle.
The poet's freedom : a notebook on making by Susan Stewart. ISBN 9780226773872. Published by University of Chicago Press in 2011. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.