Formatted Contents Note: A writer in the family -- Working in an Erickson -- May I bring you some tea? -- On bp Nichol : On first opening Nichol's Chaucer -- The brothers Nichol.-- Five things I know -- McFadden's bugs -- A little baseball : Kids and coots at the yard -- A blazing high hard on -- Some tips on becoming a successful loudmouth fan -- Two bits on the green guy.-- Artie Gold as light fixture -- Pages I have trouble with 1: Quicksand on the dining room floor -- Poetry summer -- Robin Blaser at the Griffins -- On reading Julian Rathbone's King Fisher Lives -- Pages I have trouble with 2: Indian coastlines -- Communication, social responsibility, politics and religion -- Shakespeare and I -- The John and Yoko tape -- Lyric, experiment, conservatives -- digging up Dundas -- Al Purdy : Al and me -- The Al frame -- The poetry cottage in Prince Edward County -- Purdy among the tombs.-- The useful dead.