Halftitle Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Preface and Acknowledgments; 1. Child of the Depression; Reconstructing the Childhood Apprenticeship Years; 2. Contrapuntal Imagination; From Coffeehouses to New York the Nine Million and Other Poems; 3. Sight-Reading Dunbar; The Reluctant Partnership of Two Dayton Laureates; 4. "Interrupted Rhythms"; From The Shit-Storm Poems to The Persistence of the Flesh; 5. Empowering Audiences; A Vision of Community in My Mother's Voice and Final W; 6. Celebrations; The Forms of Silence and the Seeds of New Projects; 7. Reclaiming History
The Log of the Vigilante and The Last Days of William Short8. Paul Laurence Dunbar and Herbert Woodward Martin in Their Own Voices; Martin the Dunbar Scholar; 9. A Sound Outside of His Head; The Poet as Opera Librettist; 10. Remembrances and New Directions; Galileo's Suns and A Matter of Honor; Conclusion; Appendix: A Brief Herbert Woodward Martin Chronology; Notes; Works Cited; A Select Bibliography of Works by Herbert W. Martin, 1955-2003; Index
