Contents
A Defense of Poetry
Robert Lowell
Richard Wilbur
Dear Housefly
Poem Imploring the Return of My Butt
Infantry
Foundry
Orchard
On the Rectum of Peacocks
Poems
Smalltown Faux Pas among the Lemonbars
The Pallbearer Races
Bail
Ronald Reagan
The Parenthesis Inserts Itself into the Transcripts of the Committee on Un-American Activities
Bosun
To an Oklahoma in Winter
One Petition Lofted into the Ginkgos
The Lyric
Wish
Youth of the Backhoe
Memoirs of the Backhoe
After Yeats
The OED
Daybook to Oyster, His Infant Daughter
Adolescence
Pedagogy
Poem about My Strabismus
Changeable Head
Charge of the L. B.
For Quintus Laberius Durus, Who, because of a Javelin in His Lungs, Died Near Kent, in Early August, 54 B.C.
Fons Belli
Tippetycanoe Delendum Est
How I Caught My Cold
Hair
My Buttocks
Bird
Dear Woodlouse
The Atheist Gnat
Statement
Requiem Cadenza
Notes
Acknowledgments