Poems and drafts of poems written and annotated by Julia McCarthy and later included in her book All the Names between. Includes poems: “Still the blue,” “February,” “Before the before,” “A room no longer there,” “A broken necklace,” “Because everything is water,” “A place never photographed,” “The long chain” (later titled “Séance”), “When night is not enough” (later titled “When night” and “For now”), “Field of language (silent film),” “Long good-bye to paradise,” “The night is a boat,” “The word no one knows” (later titled “A word no one knows”), “The slow dissolve” (later titled “Disjecta membra”), “The fourth bear,” “Moon song” (later titled “Throwing the bones: moon song”), “Woundless,” “Tree of sorrows,” “Soliloquy of a field mouse,” “A name I once wore,” “Orphan to none” (later titled “Mysterium tremendum”), “Biography” (later titled “Autobiography”), “Flying the words home,” “A poem considers its life” (later titled “Field of language (silent film)”), “An ocean field,” “Substance to ether,” “Song of the afterlife,” and "Afterfeathers."
Also contains poems “The private life of a chair,” “What is large,” “Little house of misfortune,” “The blood we can’t see,” “Three devils,” “A single brown eye” “What sustains the forms/The stranger,” “I’ve been companion to my father,” “In the sun,” “The river rises,” “Right in front of me.”