Epigraph: Jane Kenyon excerpt
Introduction / Kay Redfield Jamison
Delicious Placebo / Virginia Heffernan
Toys in the Attic: An Ars Poetica Under the Influence / Chase Twichell
Bodies in the Basement: An Ars Poetica with Attitude / Russell Banks
One Cheer for Melancholy / Susanna Kaysen
Heaven and Nature / Edward Hoagland
Poodle Bed / Darcey Steinke
from Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen / Larry McMurtry
Fading to Gray / Lee Stringer
from Darkness Visible / William Styron
Unwelcome Career / David Karp
Melancholy and the Muse / Ann Beattie
Ghost in the House / Donald Hall
Writing the Wrongs of Identity / Meri Nana-Ama Danquah
On Living Behind Bars / Nancy Mairs
from The Savage God / A. Alvarez
Planet No / Lesley Dormen
Melancholy of Mine Own / Joshua Wolf Shenk
Wish You Were Here / Nell Casey
Better Place to Live / Maud Casey.
From the Book - 1st Perennial ed.
Introduction / Kay Redfield Jamison
A delicious placebo / Virginia Heffernan
Toys in the attic : an ars poetica under the influence / Chase Twichell
Bodies in the basement : an ars poetica with attitude
One cheer for melancholy / Susanna Kaysen
Heaven and nature / Edward Hoagland
Poodle bed / Darcey Steinke
From Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen / Larry McMurtry
Fading to gray / Lee Stringer
From Darkness visible / William Styron
An unwelcome career / David Karp
Melancholy and the muse / Ann Beattie
Ghost in the house / Donald Hall
Writing the wrongs of identity / Meri Nana-Ama Danquah
On living behind bars / Nancy Mairs
From The savage god / A. Alvarez
Planet No / Lesley Dormen
A melancholy of mine own / Joshua Wolf Shenk
The legacy / Martha Manning
Wish you were here / Nell Casey
A better place to live / Maud Casey.
