The art of drowning

Pitt poetry series

Pitt poetry series.

Dear Reader -- Consolation -- Osso buco -- Directions -- Influence -- Water table -- Reading in a hammock -- Print -- Sunday morning with the Sensational Nightingales -- Cheers -- Best cigarette -- Metropolis -- Days -- Tuesday, June 4, 1991 -- Art of drowning -- Canada -- Biography of a cloud -- Death beds -- Conversion -- Horizon -- City of tomorrow -- Thesaurus -- Fiftieth birthday eve -- On turning ten -- Shadow -- Workshop -- Keats's handwriting -- Budapest -- My heart -- Romanticism -- Monday morning -- Dancing toward Bethlehem -- First dream -- Sweet talk -- Dream -- Man in space -- Philosophy -- While eating a pear -- End of the world -- Center -- Design -- Invention of the saxophone -- Medium -- Driving myself to a poetry reading -- Pinup -- Piano lessons -- Exploring the coast of Birdland -- Blues -- Nightclub -- Some final words.

Sailing alone around the room : new and selected poems

From The apple that astonished Paris (1988) -- Another reason why I don't keep a gun in the house -- Walking across the Atlantic -- Plight of the troubadour -- The lesson -- Winter syntax -- Advice to writers -- The rival poet -- Insomnia -- Earthling -- Books -- Bar time -- My number -- Introduction to poetry -- The Brooklyn Museum of Art -- Schoolsville -- From Questions about angels (1991) -- American sonnet -- Questions about angels -- A history of weather -- The death of allegory -- Forgetfulness -- Candle hat -- Student of clouds -- The dead -- The man in the moon -- The wires of the night -- Vade mecum -- Not touching -- The history teacher -- First reader -- Purity -- Nostalgia -- From The art of drowning (1995) -- Consolation -- Osso Buco -- Directions -- Sunday morning with the sensational nightingales -- The best cigarette -- Days -- Tuesday, June 4, 1991 -- Canada -- On turning ten -- Workshop -- My heart -- Budapest -- Dancing toward Bethlehem -- Monday morning -- Center -- Design -- Pinup -- Piano lessons -- The blues -- Man in space -- Nightclub -- Some final words -- From Picnic, lightning (1998) -- Fishing on the Susquehanna in July -- To a stranger born in some distant country hundreds of years from now -- I chop some parsley while listening to Art Blakey's version of "Three blind mice" -- Afternoon with Irish cows -- Marginalia -- Some days -- Picnic, lightning -- Morning -- Bonsai -- Shoveling snow with Buddha -- Snow -- Japan -- Victoria's secret -- Lines composed over three thousand miles from Tintern Abbey -- Paradelle for Susan -- Lines lost among trees -- Taking off Emily Dickinson's clothes -- The night house -- Splitting wood -- The death of the hat -- Passengers -- Where I live -- Aristotle -- New poems -- Dharma -- Reading an anthology of Chinese poems of the Sung Dynasty, I pause to admire the length and clarity of their titles -- Snow day -- Insomnia -- Madmen -- Sonnet -- Idiomatic -- The waitress -- The butterfly effect -- Serenade -- The three wishes -- Pavilion -- The movies -- Jealousy -- Tomes -- Man listening to disc -- Scotland -- November -- The iron bridge -- The flight of the reader.

Sailing alone around the room : new and selected poems

From The apple that astonished Paris (1988) -- Another reason why I don't keep a gun in the house -- Walking across the Atlantic -- Plight of the troubadour -- The lesson -- Winter syntax -- Advice to writers -- The rival poet -- Insomnia -- Earthling -- Books -- Bar time -- My number -- Introduction to poetry -- The Brooklyn Museum of Art -- Schoolsville -- From Questions about angels (1991) -- American sonnet -- Questions about angels -- A history of weather -- The death of allegory -- Forgetfulness -- Candle hat -- Student of clouds -- The dead -- The man in the moon -- The wires of the night -- Vade mecum -- Not touching -- The history teacher -- First reader -- Purity -- Nostalgia -- From The art of drowning (1995) -- Consolation -- Osso Buco -- Directions -- Sunday morning with the sensational nightingales -- The best cigarette -- Days -- Tuesday, June 4, 1991 -- Canada -- On turning ten -- Workshop -- My heart -- Budapest -- Dancing toward Bethlehem -- Monday morning -- Center -- Design -- Pinup -- Piano lessons -- The blues -- Man in space -- Nightclub -- Some final words -- From Picnic, lightning (1998) -- Fishing on the Susquehanna in July -- To a stranger born in some distant country hundreds of years from now -- I chop some parsley while listening to Art Blakey's version of "Three blind mice" -- Afternoon with Irish cows -- Marginalia -- Some days -- Picnic, lightning -- Morning -- Bonsai -- Shoveling snow with Buddha -- Snow -- Japan -- Victoria's secret -- Lines composed over three thousand miles from Tintern Abbey -- Paradelle for Susan -- Lines lost among trees -- Taking off Emily Dickinson's clothes -- The night house -- Splitting wood -- The death of the hat -- Passengers -- Where I live -- Aristotle -- New poems -- Dharma -- Reading an anthology of Chinese poems of the Sung Dynasty, I pause to admire the length and clarity of their titles -- Snow day -- Insomnia -- Madmen -- Sonnet -- Idiomatic -- The waitress -- The butterfly effect -- Serenade -- The three wishes -- Pavilion -- The movies -- Jealousy -- Tomes -- Man listening to disc -- Scotland -- November -- The iron bridge -- The flight of the reader.