Contents
I
The Difficult Music
The New World
Crossing Cocytus
Wide Sargasso Sea
Slaves
Paradise
Mine
Provisional
Brotherhood
Black Money
The Lucky One
Sappho’s Fragment Thirty-One Revised
Two or Three Things I Know About Him
Shipbuilding
Popular Beauty
L’Enlèvement d’Amymoné
II
The Friend
Clair de Lune
Faithless
Three A.M. Eternal
Reckless
Bacchus
Self-Portrait as Shards of Mirror
Johnny Minotaur
Perfect
In the Reading Room
What Cannot Be Kept
Kindertotenlieder
Black Is the Color of My True Love’s Hair
A Muse
Two Boys Glimpsed in Late Light
Narcissus Explains
The First Farewell to Antinoüs
Ariadne’s Dancing Floor
Psyche’s Lantern
Pindaric Ode to Yet Another White Man as Apollo
III
A Primer of Small Stars
Phenomenology
Song to the Siren
Where When Was
North Pearl
How Long Has This Been Going On?
White Days
Tantalus in May
Sunday
Narcissus Loved Rivers Best
Self-Portrait as a Man of Reason
My Foolish Friend
A Brief Manual for Swimmers
By Greenwich Time
Nuages
Avail
Self-Portrait as First Snow
Whatever Wants to Be Seen Must Be Touched
Sebastian’s Summer Poem
Rhizome
Almost
What Is Seized
Apparently
Until She Returns