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Table of contents
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Raining Flowers
- Chapter 1. Like a Cloudless Sky
- Chapter 2. When Words Collide
- Chapter 3. Artful Collecting
- Chapter 4. Remembering the Future
- Chapter 5. Pious Copies
- Chapter 6. Resemblance and Recognition
- Notes
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author