Chapter 1: "As if with lightning bolts": TheOmbraandTempestain Schoenberg's Das Buch der hängenden Gärten (Jessica Narum) / Chapter 2:Georgy Sviridov's Pushkin Romances : Approaches to Interpretation(Lisa Feurzeig and Rachael Gates)/Chapter 3:Poetry, Voice and Resistance in Poulenc's Tel jour telle nuit (Peter Kaminsky) /Chapter 4:Guilt, Deliberation, Affirmation: Britten's The Holy Sonnets of John Donne as Catharsis (Gordon Sly) / Chapter 5: Arnold van Wyk's Van Liefde en Verlatenheid ('Of Love and Forsakenness'): Love and Others in 1950s South Africa (Matildie Thom Wium) / Chapter 6: The Queer Context and Composition of Samuel Barber's Despite and Still (James Sullivan) / Chapter 7: Four Verses of Captain Lebyadkin: Nihilism and Transcendence in Late Shostakovich (Michael Chikinda) / Chapter 8: Perceiving Imaginative and Intellectual Oscillation in George Crumb's Apparition (Peter Lea and Julia Bentley) / Chapter 9: Modern and Sentimental Voices in Scott Wheeler's Wasting the Night (Benjamin Binder) / Chapter 10: "Let Me Count the Ways": Nostalgia and Repetition in Libby Larsen's Sonnets from the Portuguese (Cara Stroud) / Chapter 11: Climbing the Mountain: Thoughts on Robert Morris's Cold Mountain Songs (Brian Alegant) / Chapter 12: Portrayals of Incongruity in William Bolcom and Sandra Seaton's From the Diary of Sally Hemings (Michael R. Callahan) / Chapter 13: Longing for a Fragment: Sappho as a Figure of Hope in Paul Sánchez's á½Î´Î-ιÏÎ-Ïία (Mike Morey) / Chapter 14: There and Then, Here and Now: Higdon's Civil Words (Laura Dallman).