Contents
I. The Ordinary Sky
Elijah versus Santa
More Money than God
Worth
Cézanne Forgets His Wife’s Funeral
What’s So Funny?
My Mother, at Sixty, Learns to Drive
Dead Negro
II. Between Poetry and Peace
Pinecone and Comb
Obama Checks Black
Four Wars
Fugu
Location, Location, Location
Recital
III. This Costume’s No Disguise
The Actor
Death’s Costume
About Face
Factory Outlet
Death’s Secret Life
Death’s Dog
Death’s Dinner Party
IV. Angels in Training
Another Holocaust Poem
The Artist
At the Book Signing
Art Gallery: Summer Intern
Tattoos on Jews
Heritage Tour Package
Forgiveness
V. Unaddressed Envelope
Dante’s Politics
Two Harvests
Sudden Death
The Business of America
The Communists versus the Capitalists
Richard Michelson at the Old Bailey
The Ice Hotel
Death Valley
Acknowledgments