Table of Contents

Introduction: On Writing Autobiography 1
1. Sites 11
2. Popham Beach, Maine 21
3. Le Bois Plante, 1930 28
4. Sever Hall 50
5. The Taft School, 1930-31 59
6. Saint Benoit-du-Lac 69
7. Albertus Magnus 74
8. Yaddo 79
9. The Basilisk 97
10. Haiti, January 1959 112
11. Nice—La Trappa, 1975 126
12. Villa Serbelloni, 1981 133
13. Room 520, Loyola Hall, College of the Holy Cross, 1982-83 140
14. Lexington, Virginia, 1983-84 148
15. A Letter to Myself About Rimbaud's Angel, with a Nod to Jim Morrison and His Doors 163
Index 175

Reviews

""Sites" . . . is a book to be read as lesson, a written life through which, as any parasite or thief, we might grow more deeply enriched."
--J. W. Bonner," Arts Journal"