Author's preface to revised edition: (Re)telling / Robin M. Boylorn
Foreword / H.L. (Bud) Goodall, Jr.
Prologue: Telling
Introduction: The call(ing) for a rural Black woman's story
List of main characters
Part One. (Daily) bread
Window poem: "Business"
Window poem: "Patience"
Window poem: "Cake"
Window poem: "Moon looks white"
Window poem: "Long and hard"
Window poem: "Daddy"
Window poem: "Passin'"
Interlude: Porch premonitions
Part Two. (Robin) bird
Window poem: "Fireflies"
Window poem: "Waiting to see"
Window poem: "It hurt to be called black"
Window poem: "Beauty marks"
Window poem: "Love me tender"
Window poem: "I feel saved"
Window poem: "Poem for Mama's father"
Conclusion: Why these stories matter
Sweetwater re/view(s): Book reviews/book forum excerpts
Sweetwater re/vision(s): Author's response to reviews
Appendix A: Method(ology)
Appendix B: Sweetwater summaries
Epilogue: Bittersweet(water) : a meta-autoethnography
Postscript.