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ALSO BY STEVEN HEIGHTON FICTION Flight Paths of the Emperor On earth as it is The Shadow Boxer Afterlands Every Lost Country POETRY Stalin’s Carnival Foreign Ghosts The Ecstasy of Skeptics The Address Book Patient Frame ESSAYS The Admen Move on Lhasa ANTHOLOGIES A Discord of Flags: Canadian Poets Write About the Persian Gulf War (with Peter Ormshaw & Michael Redhill) Musings: An Anthology of Greek-Canadian Literature (with main editor Tess Fragoulis, & Helen Tsiriotakis) CHAPBOOKS/LETTERPRESS Paper Lanterns: 25 Postcards from Asia The Stages of J. Gordon Whitehead How full of trifles everything is! It is only one’s thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture. —Wallace Stevens Any memo is both a memento mori and a love note to the world in its wondrous variety and profusion. —Stamatis Smyrlis Denn meine Heimat ist das, was ich schreibe. —“So my homeland is what I write”: unattributed aphorism from a German scholarly magazine, circa 1994 FOREWORD W. B. Yeats believed that we turn our arguments with the world into essays, our arguments with ourselves into poetry. But is his idea—for all its neat symmetry, its epigrammatic authority—true of all writers who work in both forms?