Contents
Foreword
Dedication
from The Lovemaker
The Funeral Home
A Bedtime Story
Dream of Departure
The Killing
A Coffee House Lecture
Corinna in Vendôme
Dream of an Invitation
On a Theme of Sappho’s
Dark Head
Epitaph of a Faithful Man
The Lovemaker
Late Winter Birthday
To a Friend on the Day of Atonement
Vetus Flamma
The Wandering Jew
Interlude: The Ballad of Charles Starkweather
White Blossoms
Neither descendant nor lucky ancestor
The End of an Outing
After Hours
You Could Say
A Note She Might Have Left
No Country You Remember
The Friendship
Night on Clinton
The Next Thing Is Always About to Happen
Back
In a Little Park in Fresno
Looking
Reaching the Horizon
The doe standing poised
The Cat
There
Murderer’s Wine
My Mother
A Confession
The Underground Gardens
Touch It
White Blossoms
The Mercy of Sorrow after Uri Zvi Greenberg
The Hour
Joy
With My God, the Smith
Like a Girl
The Great Sad One
On the Equator
There Is a Box
How It Is
The Valley of Men
On the Pole
The Door Standing Open
At the Point
How Much Longer?
Terezín
Nolan
California Farewell
A Prayer in His Sickness
Going for a Walk at Night
Going to Heaven
Pisces’ Car Song
There Goes Gatten
Poem
New Year’s Eve in Solitude
One Summer
In the Soul Hour
I Am Here
In This Life
An Evening
Watching the Invisible
Song
I Am Beginning to Hear
Interlude: Prose and Cons
Small Song
To a Minor Poet of the Anthology
The Fields of the Dead
Looking into the Fire
Small Song
On the Burning Coast
Four-Part Psalm
Twilight under Pine Ridge
Good Fortune by Black Mountain
To Be a Giant
Last Days in Salt Lake City
Unsent Letter to Luis Salinas
The Silence
One of You
Trying to Begin
The Stream Flowing
An Old Story
Before and After Love
N. W.
Ill Lit Blues
A Way of Saying Goodbye
Words
Mercy
Of the Power of Thought
Interlude: Clerihews and Other Sports
Clerihews
Eurocentric Rag
Tailgaters
Greetings
Glosses and Variations
Her Sparrow
Jerry’s Stretch
All in the Family
Ancient Epigrams
My Stars
Jerusalem
Graves
On Her Portrait
Lament for Jonathan
David Sings before Saul
The Grave
Julio Campal
To the Likeness of a Captain in Cromwell’s Armies
Ballad of the Stranger
Einar Tambarskelver
Johnny Raftery
The Golem
Paris, 1856
To a Forgotten Poet of 1935
A Rose and Milton
Not So Simple
The Meaning of Soup
Requiem
Odysseus
I Saw
Gauguin
from Lines for the Death of My Aunt Daniela
Couplets
Some Occasional Poems
A Joyful Noise
Last Words
Joe Simpson
April Fourth
Breathing You
On the Retirement of the Scholar, Thomas Pinney
A Retirement Poem for Dick Barnes
Edgar
A Prayer for the Eighth Day
Interlude: More Clerihews
Evening Wind and Other Poems
Evening Wind
No Way
Fragments of an Endless Ghazal
Slow Sonnet
Laïs Dedicates to Aphroditê the Tools of Her Trade
Chin Music
To the Americans
The Noble Rider and the Sound of Words: A Cento
To My Friends in the Art
One-Rime Dream
After Ten Years
Spring Evening by Walnut Creek
From a Sketchbook: Fragments and Epigrams
Owl
A Serious Note
Hardy
Tea Dance at the Nautilus Hotel (1925)
Variation on a Theme
Notes
Index of Titles and First Lines