Contents
I
Torment
II
Women’s Poetry
Midnight Feeding
Kissinger at the Louvre (Three Drafts)
Thrash
Econo Motel, Ocean City
Ippopotamo
A Snow Woman
This Need Not Be a Comment on Death
Lyric
Stolen Vehicle Discovered at the Junkyard
Inside All This
Il Penseroso: The Fat Lady
Elegy
Liberalism
Perpetual Youth Lost by Humankind
Metaphor for Something, or Solving the Credit Crunch
His Failed Band, 1973
The Spirit Award
Her Failed Band, 1982
L’Allegro: Driving Home
III
1. Odori, Ospitalità
2. Padlocks, Suicidal
3. Sunday Morning, Night
4. Histories: Umbrellas
5. Shame and Go Home, 2004
6. Histories: 2000. July
7. Song, 2007. Camp X-Ray Cages
8. Argento Titano. Now Dusk Purple
9. Batti Batti le Manine
10. Rome and Its Night
IV
Ask The Poetess: An Advice Column
Notes
Acknowledgments