Phil Cousineau
Forward – “The Night Express to Our Soul”
by Jeff “The Dude” Dowd
Prologue – “The Darkness that Heals”
by Phil Cousineau
Introduction – Phil Cousineau
Each Breath of Night – Annie Dillard
Nightfeed – Henry Shukman
Introduction – Phil Cousineau
Night Gigs in Motown – Christopher Bakriges
West with the Night – Beryl Markham
Part III – “A Hard Day’s Night”
Introduction – Phil Cousineau
Take that Ride – RB Morris
Borges and the Darkness Visible – Alberto Manguel
Introduction – Phil Cousineau
The Night of the Diaphanous Dream – Joanne Warfield
Sleepwalking – Anthony Burgess
Introduction – Phil Cousineau
The Throat of Dawn – Mark Nepo
Delta Dawn – Edward Tick
We feature only two works from each of the five Parts of the book.
For those interested, here is the complete list of contents:
Part I: The Twilight Zone
But I Sleep Alone | Sappho
Evening Star | Sappho
Fireflies | Rabindranath Tagore
Acquainted with the Night | Robert Frost
We Grow Accustomed to the Dark | Emily Dickinson
Last Night the Rain Spoke to Me | Mary Oliver
Afterwards | Thomas Hardy
Baruch Spinoza | Jorge Luis Borges
Each Breath of Night | Annie Dillard
The Times Are Nightfall | Gerard Manley Hopkins
Songs of Owl Woman | Owl Woman (Juana Maxwell)
Blue Mosque Reverie | Phil Cousineau
Night and Sleep | Mevlana Rumi
A Hymn to the Night | Novalis
The Last Prince of Thormond | P.J. Curtis
Last Night on Santorini | Edward Tick
The Tyger | William Blake
Warm Light | Charles Bukowski
Mother Nursing Milky Way | Antler
Among the Sounds of the Night | James Agee
Sunset on the Serengeti | Huston Smith
Coltrane Twilight | Erin Byrne
A Little Night Music | Linda Watanabe McFerrin
You Have Opened a Secret Tonight | Mevlana Rumi
Love at the Edge of the Grand Canyon | Jane Winslow Eliot
Their 50th Anniversary | James Botsford
Night Feed | Henry Shukman
Part II: Nighthawks
Night Song | Sappho
A Letter from Galileo | Galileo Galilei
The Night Is Much More Alive | Vincent van Gogh
Campfire Talk | Antler
Alone with the Stars | Rachel Carson
The Mohawk Thanks to the Stars | Douglas George-Kanentiino
Glaciers by Starlight | John Muir
Alone in the Arctic Night | Richard E. Byrd
A Night in an Igloo | Georgia Hesse
Edward Hopper: The Nighthawk | Alexander Eliot
Bonfire Night on Inis Mór | Dara Molloy
Inis Mór Night | Tess Harper
A Night in the Royal Ontario Museum | Margaret Atwood
Café de Nuit | Erin Byrne
The Domain of Night: The Darkroom | Stuart Balcomb
Dead Air / Night Radio | Richard Beban
Reading at Night with My Father | Goody Cable
Night Gigs in Motown | Chris Bakriges
Miles of Country Roads | Miles Davis
Amsterdam | RB Morris
Night Painting | Gregg Chadwick
West with the Night | Beryl Markham
The Moon over the Seine | Mort Rosenblum
Drinking Alone by Moonlight | Li Po
Bedrock Mortar Full Moon Illumination | Antler
Zorba’s Fire | Nikos Kazantzaki
Night Train | Georgia Hesse
Night Game | William Haney
Pitch Dark | Phil Cousineau
Hares at Play | John Clare
The Night Cry of the Peacock | Flannery O’Connor
When Mockingbird First Heard Rock | RB Morris
Walking Walden | Henry David Thoreau
Wandering at Night | Walt Whitman
San Francisco Nights | James Norwood Pratt
Elastic Midnight | Mikkel Aaland
The Night I Drove Kerouac Home | Phil Cousineau
I Walk the City at Night | Mevlana Rumi
Night Walk in Manila | Pico Iyer
My Library at Night | Alberto Manguel
Last Night, Alone | Mevlana Rumi
The Night Roses | Sarah Maclay
Black Roses | Rosemary LaChance
Part III: A Hard Day’s Night
Insomnia | Abu Amir ibn al-Hammarah
I Have Brought My Pillow | Zi Ye
All Night I Could Not Sleep | Zi Ye
Winter Night | Yang-ti
Untouched by Sleep | Ovid
The Fore-Shift | Matthew Tate
Machines Shed Aluminum Tears | Jeff Poniewaz
I Can See in the Midst of Darkness | Mahatma Gandhi
The Origins of Our Fear of the Dark | Bruce Chatwin
Driving with Jack at Midnight | Phil Cousineau
Take That Ride | RB Morris
Silent Night in No Man’s Land | Stanley Weintraub
Nhac Sanh | Edward Tick
In My Own House I Am a Stranger at Midnight | Gary Young
The Dangers of Reading All Night | Rob LaChance
The First Quiet Drink of the Evening | Raymond Chandler
Noche de los Muertos | Linda Watanabe McFerrin
Advancing on the Chaos and the Dark | Emerson
Burning the Midnight Oil | Jeff Poniewaz
In a Dark Time | Theodore Roethke
Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night | Dylan Thomas
Bourbon | Sarah Maclay
Childhood Radio Signal in the Alien Detroit Night | Joyce Jenkins
Borges and the Darkness Visible | Alberto Manguel
Night Train Home | RB Morris
Tarde Noctem | Kent Chadwick
When Encountering a Ghost for the First Time | Lewis Carroll
He Watched Her While She Slept | James Joyce
The Night Will Pass | Mevlana Rumi
Lying Awake | May Sarton
Tymnes | Michael Wolfe
Part IV: The Dream Factory
I Fell Asleep | Ono no Komachi
Chanzu Tzu’s Dream | Zhuang Zhou
A Dream of Mountaineering | Po-Chui
Let not Sleep Come upon Thine Eyes | Pythagoras
The Benefits of the Dark | Leonardo da Vinci
Golden Slumbers | Thomas Dekker
Those Who Don’t Feel This Love | Mevlana Rumi
Windows and Doors | Phil Cousineau
The Midnight Guest | Anacreon
Sonnet 27 | William Shakespeare
Dreaming of Kubla Khan | Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Visiting My Brother One Summer Night after Rain | Jeff Poniewaz
Looking at Them Asleep | Sharon Olds
Night Song | Sarah Maclay
Kant’s Critique of Pure Sleep | Thomas de Quincey
A Dream Within a Dream | Edgar Allan Poe
The Land of Nod | Robert Louis Stevenson
The Sentinel in Love | Farid ud-Din Attar
Postcard from the New Delhi Night | James Botsford
Sonnet 43 | William Shakespeare
The Vision to Elektra | Robert Herrick
Dreaming While I Drive | RB Morris
A Renaissance Remedy for Sleeplessness | Marsilio Ficino
The Night of the Diaphanous Dream | Joanne Warfield
Before Turning off the Lights | Brother David Steindhl-Rast
The Mystery of Jet Lag | Pico Iyer
Sleepwalking | Anthony Burgess
Part V: Morning Has Broken
Dawn | Sappho
End of the Party | Sappho
An Eskimo Greeting to the Day | Orpingalik
To Tan Ch’iu | Li Po
For Fleas, Also | Kobayashi Issa
The Night at Zensho-ji Temple | Basho
The Throat of Dawn | Mark Nepo
My Immortal Beloved | Ludwig van Beethoven
Alice Wonders: Was I Changed by the Night? | Lewis Carroll
It Gave Me the Daring | Lalla
Wake! | Omar Khayyam
Speak to Us of Beauty | Kahlil Gibran
To Awaken Each Morning | Thomas Dekker
Lying Single in Bed | Samuel Pepys
Each Soul Must Meet the Morning Sun | Ohiyesa
Waking in the Monastery | Gary Young
Zero in the Dark | Verlyn Klinkenborg
The Night View of the World | Howard Thurman
I Have Been Tricked | Mevlana Rumi
Delta Dawn | Edward Tick
The Spirit of St. Louis in the Coming Dawn | Charles Lindbergh
Our Little Life Is Rounded with a Sleep | William Shakespeare
The Old City before Dawn | Pico Iyer
White Nights | Willis Barnstone
The Blind Watchmaker | Phil Cousineau