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Collected poems.

The land God forgot -- The spell of the Yukon -- The heart of the sourdough -- The three voices -- The law of the Yukon -- The parson's son -- The call of the wild -- The lone trail -- The pines -- The lure of little voices -- The song of the wage-slave -- Grin -- The shooting of Dan McGrew -- The cremation of Sam McGrew -- My madonna -- Unforgotten -- The reckoning -- Quatrains -- The men that don't fit in -- Music in the bush -- The rhyme of the remittance man -- The low-down white -- The little old log cabin -- The younger son -- The march of the dead -- "fighting Mac" -- The woman and the angel -- The rhyme of the restless ones -- New year's eve -- comfort -- The harpy -- Premonition -- The tramps -- L'envoi -- To the man of the high north -- Men of the high north -- The ballad of the northern lights -- The ballad of the black fox skin -- The ballad of Piou Pete -- The ballad of blasphemous Bill -- The ballad of one-eyed Mike -- The ballad of the brand -- The ballad of Hard-luck Henry -- The man from Eldorado -- My friends -- The prospector -- The black sheep -- The telegraph operator -- The wood-cutter -- The song of the mouth-organ -- The trail of ninety-eight -- The ballad of gum-boot Ben -- Clancy of the mounted police -- Lost -- Prelude -- A rolling stone -- The soldier of fortune -- The gramophone at fond-du-lac -- The land of beyond -- Sunshine -- The idealist -- Athabaska Dick -- Cheer -- The return -- The junior god -- The nostomaniac -- Ambition -- To sunnydale -- The blind and the dead -- The atavist -- The sceptic -- The rover -- Barb-wire Bill -- ? -- Just think! -- The lunger -- The mountain and the lake -- The headliner and the breadliner -- Death in the arctic -- Dreams are best -- The quitter -- The cow-juice cure -- While the bannock bakes -- The lost master -- Little moccasins -- The wanderlust -- The trapper's Christmas eve -- The world's all right -- The baldness of chewed-ear -- The mother -- The dreamer -- At thirty-five -- The squaw man -- Home and love -- I'm scared of it all -- A song of success -- The song of the camp-fire -- Her letter -- The man who knew -- The logger -- The passing of the year -- The ghosts -- Good-bye, little cabin -- Heart ' the north -- The scribe's prayer -- The call -- The fool -- The volunteer -- The convalescent -- The man from Athabaska -- The red retreat -- The haggis of Private McPhee -- The lark -- The odyssey of 'erbert 'iggins -- A song of winter weather -- Tipperary days -- Fleurette -- Funk -- Our hero -- My mate -- Milking time -- Young fellow my lad -- A song of the sandbags -- On the wire -- Bill's grave -- Jean Desprez -- Going home -- Cocotte -- My bay'nit -- Carry on! -- Over the parapet -- The ballad of soulful Sam -- Only i boche -- Pilgrims -- My prisoner -- Tri-colour -- a pot of tea -- The revelation -- Grand-pere -- Son -- The black dudeen -- The little piou-piou -- Bill the bomber -- The whistle of Sandy McGraw -- The stretcher-bearer -- Wounded -- Faith -- The coward -- Missis Moriarty's boy -- My foe -- My job -- The song of the pacifist -- The twins -- The song of the soldier-born -- Afternoon tea -- The mourners -- My garret -- Julot the Apache -- L'escargot d'or -- It is later than you think -- Noctambule -- Insomnia -- Moon song -- The sewing-girl -- Lucille -- On the boulevard -- Facility -- Golden days -- The joy of little things -- The absinthe drinkers -- The release -- The wee shop -- The philistine and the Bohemian -- The bohemian dreams -- A domestic tragedy -- The pencil seller -- Fi-fi in bed -- Gods in the gutter -- The death of Marie Toro -- The bohemian -- The auction sale -- The joy of being poor -- My neighbors -- Room 4: the painter chap -- Room 6: the little workgirl -- Room 5: the concert singer -- Room 7: The coco-fiend -- The philanderer -- The petit vieux -- My masterpiece -- My book -- My hour -- A song of sixty-five -- Teddy bear -- The outlaw -- The walkers -- Poor Peter -- The wistful one -- If you had a friend -- The contented man -- The spirit of the unborn babe -- Finistere -- Old David Smail -- The wonderer -- Oh, it is good -- I have some friends -- The quest -- The coforter -- The other one -- Catastrophe -- Priscilla -- A casualty -- The bood-red fourragere -- Jim -- Kelly of the legion -- The three tommies -- The TWA jocks -- His boys -- The booby-trap -- Bonehead Bill -- A lapse of time and a word of explanation -- Michael -- The wife -- Victory stuff -- Was it you? -- Les grands mutiles -- The sightless man -- The legless man -- The faceless man -- The ballad of salvation Bill -- Each day a life -- Dolls -- The ballad of how Macpherson held the floor -- Gipsy -- The ballad of Hank the finn -- Sheila -- The ballad of touch-the-button Nell -- Atoll -- The ballad of ice-worm cocktail -- Grandad -- The ballad of the leather medal -- Courage -- A sourdough story -- Allouette -- The ballad of Lenin's tomb -- Maids in May -- The ballad of Casey's billy-goat -- The smoking frog -- Madame la marquise -- Beachcomber -- Jobson of the Star -- Bastard -- Bessie's boil -- Five-per-cent -- Security -- Longevity -- Resignation -- Privacy -- Maternity -- Virginity -- Sensibility -- Infidelity -- Laughter -- Laziness -- Accordion -- Trees against the sky -- Moon-lover -- Little puddleton -- Bookshelf -- you can't can love -- Lip-stick liz -- The bread-knife ballad -- The boola-boola maid -- The song of a sardine -- Warsaw -- Enemy conscript -- Don't cheer.

Book reports : a music critic on his first love, which was reading

Collectibles. The informer : John Leonard's When the kissing had to stop -- Advertisements for everybody else : Jonathan Lethem's The ecstasy of influence -- Democratic vistas : Dave Hickey's Air guitar.

From blackface minstrelsy to track-and-hook. In search of Jim Crow : why postmodern minstrelsy studies matter -- The old Ethiopians at home : Ken Emerson's Doo-dah! -- Before the blues : David Wondrich's Stomp and swerve -- Rhythms of the universe : Ned Sublette's Cuba and its music -- Black melting pot : David B. Coplan's In Township tonight! -- Bwana-acolyte in the favor bank : Banning Eyre's in griot time -- In the crucible of the party : Charles Keil et al. Bright Balkan morning -- Defining the folk : Benjamin Filene's Romancing the folk -- Folking around : David Hajdu's Positively 4th Street -- Punk lives : Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain's Please kill me -- Biography of a corporation : Nelson George's Where did our love go? -- Hip-hop faces the world : Steven Hager's Hip hop, David Toop's The rap attack, and Nelson George, Sally Banes, Susan Flinker, and Patty Romanowski's Fresh -- Making out like gangsters : Preston Lauterbach's The chitlin circuit, Dan Charnas's The big -- Payback, Ice-T's Ice, and Tommy James's Me, the mob, and music -- Money isn't everything : Fred Goodman's The mansion on the hill -- Mapping the earworm's genome : John Seabrook's The song machine.

Critical practice. Beyond the symphonic quest : Susan Mcclary's Feminine endings -- All in the tune family : Peter van Der Merwe's Origins of the popular style -- Bel cantos : Henry Pleasants's The great American popular singers -- The country and the city : Charlie Gillett's The sound of the city -- Reflections of an aging rock critic : Jon Landau's It's too late to stop now -- Pioneer days : Kevin Avery's Everything is an afterthought and Nona Willis Aronowitz's (ed.) Out of the vinyl deeps -- Impolite discourse : Jim Derogatis's Let it blurt : The life and times of Lester Bangs -- America's greatest rock critic, Richard Meltzer's A whore just like the rest, and Nick Tosches's The Nick Tosches reader -- Journalism and/or criticism and/or musicology and/or sociology (and/or writing) : Simon Frith -- Serious music : Robert Walser's running with the devil -- Minutes of... : William York's Who's who in rock music -- The fanzine worldview, alphabetized : Ira A. Robbins's Trouser press guide to New Wave Records -- Awesome : Simon Reynolds's Blissed out -- Ingenuousness lost : James Miller's Flowers in the dustbin -- Rock criticism lives : Jessica Hopper's The first collection of criticism by a living female rock critic -- Emo meets Trayvon Martin : Hanif Abdurraqib's They can't kill us until they kill us.

Lives in music inside and out. Great book of fire : Nick Tosches's Hellfire and Robert Palme's Jerry Lee Lewis rocks! -- That bad man, tough old Huddie Ledbetter : Charles Wolfe and Kip Lornell's The life and legend of Leadbelly -- The impenetrable heroism of Sam Cooke : Peter Guralnick's Dream boogie -- Bobby and Dave : Bob Dylan's Chronicles : volume one and Dave van Ronk's The mayor of Macdougal street -- Tell all : Ed Sanders's Fug you and Samuel R. Delany's The motion of light in water -- King of the thrillseekers : Richard Hell's I dreamed I was a very clean tramp -- Lives saved, lives lost : Carrie Brownstein's Hunger makes me a modern girl and Patti Smith's M Train -- The cynic and the bloke : Rod Stewart's Rod : the autobiography and Donald Fagen's Eminent hipsters -- His own shaman : RJ Smith's The one -- Spotlight on the queen : David Ritz's Respect -- The realest thing you've ever seen : Bruce Springsteen's Born to run.

Fictions. Writing for the people : George Orwell's 1984 -- A classic illustrated : R. Crumb's The Book of Genesis -- The hippie grows older : Richard Brautigan's Sombrero fallout -- Comic Gurdjieffianism you can masturbate to : Marco Vassi's Mind blower -- Porn yesterday : Walter Kendrick's The secret museum -- What pretentious white men are good for : Robert Coover's Gerald's party -- Impoverished how, exactly? : Roddy Doyle's The woman who walked into doors -- Sustainable romance : Norman's Rush's Mortals -- Derring-do scraping by : Michael Chabon's Telegraph Avenue -- Futures by the dozen : Bruce Sterling's Holy fire -- Ya poet of the massa woods : Sandra Newman's The country of ice cream star -- A darker shade of noir : the indefatigable Walter Mosley.

Bohemia meets hegemony. Épatant le bourgeoisie : Jerrold Seigel's Bohemian Paris and T. J. Clark's The painting of modern life -- The village people : Christine Stansell's American moderns -- A slender hope for salvation : Charles Reich's The greening of America -- The lumpenhippie guru : Ed Sanders's The family -- Strait are the gates : Morris Dickstein's Gates of Eden -- The little counterculture that could : Carol Brightman's Sweet chaos -- The pop-boho connection, narrativized : Bernard F. Gendron's Between Montmartre and the Mudd club -- Cursed and sainted seekers of the sexual century : John Heidenry's What wild ecstasy -- Bohemias lost and found : Ross Wetzsteon's Republic of dreams, Richard Kostelanetz's Soho and Richard Lloyd's Neo-Bohemias -- Autobiography of a pain in the neck : Meredith Maran's What it's like to live now.

Culture meets capital. Twentieth century limited : Marshall Berman's All that is solid melts into air -- Dialectical cricket : C. L. R. James's Beyond a boundary -- Radical pluralist : Andrew Ross's No respect -- Inside the prosex wars : Nadine Strossen's Defending pornography, Joanma Frueh's Erotic -- Faculties, and Laura Kipnis's Bound and gagged -- Growing up kept down : William Finnegan's Cold new world -- The secret fundamentalists : Jeff Sharlet's The family -- Dark night of the quants : ten books about the financial crisis -- They bet your life : four books about hedge funds -- Living in a material world : Raymond Williams's Long revolution -- With a god on his side : Terry Eagleton's Culture and the death of god, culture, and materialism -- My friend Marshall : Marshall Berman's Modernism in the streets.

American poetry

The Prologue -- Contemplations -- The Flesh and the Spirit -- The Author to Her Book -- To My Dear and Loving Husband -- In Memory of My Dear Grandchild Elizabeth Bradstreet, Who Deceased August, 1665, Being a Year and a Half Old -- Some Verses Upon the Burning of Our House, July 10th, 1666 / Prologue (from "Preparatory Meditations) -- Meditation I -- The Reflexion -- Meditation 6 -- Meditation 8 -- Meditation 20 -- Meditation 29 -- Meditation 38 -- Meditation 40 -- Meditation 68A, Second Series -- from "Gods Determinations Touching His Elect -- The Preface -- The Glory of and Grace in the Church Set Out -- The Joy of Church Fellowship Rightly Attended -- Miscellaneous Poems -- An Address to the Soul Occasioned By a Rain -- Upon a Spider Catching a Fly -- Huswifery -- Upon Wedlock and Death of Children -- The Ebb and Flow / The Power of Fancy -- Death (from "The House of Night") -- The Vanity of Existence -- To the Memory of the Brave Americans -- The Hurricane -- The Wild Honey Suckle -- The Indian Burying Ground -- To Sir Toby -- Ode -- Amanda's Complaint -- On a Honey Bee -- On the Universality and Other Attributes of the God of Nature / The Hasty-Pudding -- from "The Columbiad" [One Centred System] / Thanatopsis -- The Yellow Violet -- Inscription for the Entrance to a Wood -- To a Waterfowl -- Green River -- A Winter Piece -- Summer Wind -- A Forest Hymn -- "Oh Fairest of the Rural Maids" -- The Evening Wind -- To Cole, the Painter, Departing for Europe -- To the Fringed Gentian -- The Prairies -- Earth -- The Antiquity of Freedom -- "Oh Mother of a Mighty Race" -- The Poet -- The Death of Lincoln

The Sphinx -- Each and All -- The Problem -- Uriel -- Alphonso of Castile -- Mithridates -- Hamatreya -- The Rhodora -- The Snow-Storm -- Ode -- Ode to Beauty -- Give All to Love -- The Apology -- Merlin -- Bacchus -- Blight -- Musketaquid -- Threnody -- Concord Hymn -- Brahma -- Days -- Two Rivers -- Waldeinsamkeit -- Terminus -- Compensation / Hymn to the Night -- The Skeleton in Armor -- The Arsenal at Sspringfield -- Seaweed -- The Fire of Driftwood -- In the Churchyard at Cambridge -- The Jewish Cemetery at Newport -- The Ropewalk -- My Lost Youth -- Snow-Flakes -- Killed at the Ford -- Divina Commedia -- The Challenge -- Aftermath -- The Sicilian's Tale -- Chaucer -- Milton -- Keats -- The Sound of the Sea -- The Harvest Moon -- Nature -- The Chamber over the Gate -- The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls -- Jugurtha -- The Cross of Snow / Memories -- Proem -- Ichabod -- Skipper Ireson's Ride -- The Old Burying-Ground -- Telling the Bees -- My Playmate -- Barbara Frietchie -- Snow-Bound -- Laus Deo! -- Prelude (from"Among the Hills") -- At Last / Tamerlane -- Evening Star -- A Dream Within a Dream -- Sonnet-To Science -- Al Aaraaf -- Romance -- To Helen -- Israfel -- The City in the Sea -- The Sleeper -- Lenore -- The Valley of Unrest -- The Coliseum -- To One in Paradise -- The Haunted Palace -- Sonnet-Silence -- The Conqueror Worm -- Dream-Land -- The Raven -- Ulalume-A Ballad -- Eldorado -- For Annie -- To My Mother -- Annabel Lee / The Ballad of the Oysterman -- Old Ironsides -- The Last Leaf -- The Chambered Nautilus -- The Living Temple -- The Deacon's Masterpiece -- Contentment -- The Two Streams -- Manhood (from "Wind-Clouds and Star-Drifts") -- Dorothy Q. -- Two Sonnets: Harvard -- The Peau De Chagrin of State Street

To the Canary Bird -- Thy Beauty Fades -- The New Birth -- Nature -- Life -- The Garden -- The columbine -- The Dead -- The Slave -- Love -- Thy Brother's Blood -- The Hand and Foot -- Psyche -- The Barberry-Bush -- Man in Harmony with Nature -- On the Completion of the Pacific Telegraph -- The Broken Bowl -- The April Snow -- Soul-Sickness -- The Clouded Morning -- Abdolonymus the Sidonian -- The Fugitive Slaves -- On Visiting the Graves of Hawthorne and Thoreau -- The New Man -- The New World / Within the Circuit of This Plodding Life -- Great God, I Ask Thee for No Meaner Pelf -- Light-Winged Smoke, Icarian Bird -- Though All the Fates Should Prove Unkind -- Woof of the Sun, Ethereal Gauze -- Lately, Alas, I Knew a Gentle Boy -- The Inward Morning -- My Books I'd Fain Cast Off, I Cannot Read -- I Am A Parcel of Vain Strivings Tied -- Inspiration -- The Fall of the Leaf / To the Dandelion -- From "A Fable for Critics" [Emerson] -- [Bryant] -- [Whittier] -- [Hawthorne] -- [Cooper] -- [Poe and Longfellow] -- [Lowell] -- Ode Recited at the Harvard Commemoration -- Sunthin' in the Pastoral Line -- The Washers of the Shroud -- Auspex -- The Recall -- On Receiving a Copy of Mr. Austin Dobson's "Old World Idylls" -- Verses, Intended to Go With a Posset Dish / Song of Myself -- From "To Think of Time" -- Crossing Brooklyn Ferry -- Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking -- From "Children of Adam" -- To the Garden the World -- From Pent-up Aching Rivers -- Ages and Ages Returning at Intervals -- As adam Early in the Morning -- From "Calamus" In Paths Untrodden -- Scented Herbage of My Breast -- I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing -- When I Heard at the Close of the Day -- Here the Frailest Leaves of Me -- I Dream'd in a Dream -- From "Drum-Taps" Beat! Beat! Drums! -- Cavalry Crossing a Ford -- Bivouac on a Mountain Side -- By the Bivouac's Fitful Flame -- The Wound-Dresser -- A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim -- To the Leaven'd Soil they Trod -- O Captain! My Captain! -- When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd -- Sparkles From the Wheel -- A Noiseless Patient Spider -- To a Locomotive in Winter -- Good-Bye My Fancy!

The Portent -- Misgivings -- The Conflict of Convictions -- The March into Virginia -- A Utilitarian View of the Monitor's Fight -- Shiloh -- Malvern Hill -- The House-Top -- A Dirge for McPherson -- On the Grave of a Young Cavalry Officer Killed in the Valley of Virginia -- Commemorative of a Naval Victory -- Epilogue (from "Clarel") -- The Æolian Harp -- The Maldive Shark -- The Berg -- Pebbles -- After the Pleasure Party -- The Ravaged Villa -- Monody -- Art / The Question -- Refrigerium -- Sonnets: Part I - XXII -- XXIV -- XXV -- XXVI -- Sonnets: Part II - VII -- VIII -- IX -- X -- XI -- XII -- XIII -- XIV -- XV -- XVI -- XVII -- XXXI -- XXXII -- XXXIII -- XXXIV / Charleston -- Spring -- The Unknown Dead -- Ode / 49 I never lost as much but twice -- 67 Success is counted sweetest -- 76 Exultation is the going -- 80 Our lives are Swiss -- 126 To fight aloud, is very brave -- 128 Bring me the sunset in a cup -- 130 These are the days when birds come back -- 160 Just lost, when I was saved -- 165 A wounded deer, leaps highest -- 187 How many times these low feet staggered -- 214 I taste a liquor never brewed -- 216 Safe in their alabaster chambers -- 241 I like a look of agony -- 249 Wild nights-wild nights -- 258 There's a certain slant of light -- 280 I felt a funeral, in my brain -- 287 A clock stopped -- 290 Of bronze-and blaze -- 303 The soul selects her own society -- 318 I'll tell you how the sun rose -- 322 There came a day at summer's full -- 328 A bird came down the walk -- 341 After great pain, a formal feeling comes -- 348 I dreaded that first robin, so -- 376 Of course-I prayed -- 378 I saw no way-the Heavens were stitched -- 401 What soft-cherubic creatures -- 435 Much madness is divinest sense

441 This is my letter to the world -- 448 This was a poet, it is that -- 449 I died for beauty-but was scarce -- 465 I heard a fly buzz-when I died -- 474 They put us far apart -- 502 At least-to pray-is left-is left -- 511 If you were coming in the fall -- 526 To hear an oriole sing -- 536 The heart asks pleasure-first -- 556 The brain, within it's groove -- 585 I like to see it lap the miles -- 620 It makes no difference abroad -- 640 I cannot live with you -- 650 Pain-has an element of blank -- 657 I dwell in possibility -- 664 Of all the souls that stand create -- 675 Essential oils-are wrung -- 712 Because I could not stop for death -- 721 Behind me-dips eternity -- 742 Four trees-upon a solitary acre -- 754 My life had stood-a loaded gun -- 764 Presentiment-is that long shadow-on the lawn -- 813 This quiet dust was gentlemen and ladies -- 822 This consciousness that is aware -- 829 Ample make this bed -- 861 Split the lark-and you'll find the music -- 870 Finding is the first act -- 875 I stepped from plank to plank -- 888 When I have seen the sun emerge -- 946 It is an honorable thought -- 949 Under the light, yet under -- 985 The missing all, prevented me -- 986 A narrow fellow in the grass -- 997 Crumbling is not an instant's act -- 1052 I never saw a moor -- 1068 Further in summer than the birds -- 1072 Title divine-is mine -- 1078 The bustle in a house -- 1082 Revolution is the pod -- 1084 At half past three, a single bird -- 1129 Tell all the truth but tell it slant -- 1176 We never know how high we are -- 1207 He preached upon "Breadth" till it argued him narrow -- 1243 Safe despair it is that raves -- 1304 Not with a club, the heart is broken -- 1333 A little madness in the spring -- 1393 Lay this laurel on the one -- 1463 A route of evanescence -- 1540 As imperceptibly as grief -- 1587 He ate and drank the precious words -- 1612 The auctioneer of parting -- 1624 Apparently with no surprise -- 1670 In winter in my room -- 1672 Lightly stepped a yellow star -- 1695 There is a solitude of space -- 1712 A pit-but Heaven over it -- 1732 My life closed twice before its close / Thar's more in the man than thar is in the land -- Corn -- The Symphony -- The Waving of the Corn -- Evening Song -- Song of the Chattahoochee -- The Harlequin of Dreams -- The Revenge of Hamish -- The Marshes of Glynn -- A Ballad of Trees and the Master / Glouchester Moors -- An Ode in Time of Hesitation -- On a Soldier Fallen in the Philippines -- The Menagerie -- The Bracelet of Grass -- Faded Pictures -- Thammuz / George Crabbe -- Luke Havergal -- Credo -- Cliff Klingenhagen -- How Annandale went out -- Miniver Cheevy -- For a Dead Lady -- The Gift of God -- Hillcrest -- Eros Turannos -- Bewick Finzer -- The Man Against the Sky -- Demos -- The Dark Hills -- Mr. Flood's Party -- The Sheaves -- Karma / From "The Black Riders" - I -- III -- VI -- VIII -- IX -- X -- XII -- XIV -- XVIII -- XIX -- XXI -- XXIII -- XXIV -- XXVIII -- XXIX -- XXXIV -- XXXIX -- XLI -- XLVI -- XLIX -- LI -- LIV -- LX -- LXVI -- LXVII -- The Blue Battalions -- From "War is Kind" - [I] -- [VI] -- [VII] -- [XI] -- [XII] -- [XVIII] -- [XIX] -- [XXI] -- [XXIII] -- Three Poems

The Tuft of Flowers -- Mending Wall -- Home Burial -- After Apple-Picking -- The Road Not Taken -- The Oven Bird -- The Witch of Coös -- Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening -- For Once, Then, Something -- The Onset -- To Earthward -- Two Look at Two -- Acquainted with the Night -- West-Running Brook -- Two Tramps in Mud Time -- Desert Places -- Neither Out Far Nor in Deep -- Design -- The Gift Outright -- Directive / Chicago -- Sketch -- Fog -- Pool -- Prayers of Steel -- Wilderness -- Handfuls -- Cool Tombs -- Four Preludes on Playthings of the Wind -- When Death Came April Twelve 1945 / Domination of Black -- The Snow Man -- Le Monocle de Mon Oncle -- A High-Toned Old Christian Woman -- The Emperor of Ice-Cream -- Sunday Morning -- Anecdote of the Jar -- To the One of Fictive Music -- Peter Quince at the Clavier -- Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird -- Sea Surface Full of Clouds -- The Idea of Order at Key West -- Anglais Mort À Florence -- A Postcard from the Volcano -- Study of Two Pears -- The Glass of Water -- The Sense of the Sleight-of-Hand Man -- Mrs. Alfred Uruguay -- Asides on the Oboe -- The Motive for Metaphor -- Credences of Summer -- To an Old Philosopher in Rome -- The Rock -- The World as Meditation -- As You Leave the Room / Tract -- The Widow's Lament in Springtime -- Queen-Ann's-Lace -- Spring and All -- To Elsie -- Rain -- The Yachts -- These -- Preface to Paterson: Book One -- The Semblables -- Burning the Christmas Greens -- The Injury / Portrait d'Une Femme -- The Seafarer -- A Virginal -- The Return -- Lament of the Frontier Guard -- Liu Ch'e -- Hugh Selwyn Mauberley -- Canto I -- Canto II / Adonis -- Heat -- Pear Tree -- Oread -- From Citron-Bower -- Erige Cor Tuum Ad Me in Caelum / Night -- Birds -- Apology for Bad Dreams -- Hurt Hawks -- Promise of Peace -- The Eye -- Ocean -- My Burial Place -- Let Them Alone -- But I am Growing Old and Indolent / Poetry -- The Steeple-Jack -- No Swan so Fine -- The Pangolin -- What are Years? -- The Mind is an Enchanting Thing -- In Distrust of Merits -- Armour's Undermining Modesty -- Tom Fool at Jamaica -- Melchior Vulpius / Winter Remembered -- Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter -- Captain Carpenter -- Vision by Sweetwater -- Piazza Piece -- Antique Harvesters -- The Equilibrists -- Painted Head -- Master's in the Garden Again -- Prelude to an Evening

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock -- Sweeney Among the Nightingales -- Gerontion -- The Waste Land -- The Hollow Men -- Ash-Wednesday / The Road -- Sea Holly -- Elder Tree -- The Room -- Doctors' Row -- North Infinity Street -- The lovers -- Music / Ars Poetica -- The End of the World -- You, Andrew Marvell -- Immortal Autumn -- "Not Marble nor the Gilded Monuments" -- Pole Star -- Theory of Poetry / O Sweet Spontaneous -- A Man Who Had Fallen Among Thieves -- "Next to of Course God America I -- Somewhere I have Never Travelled, Gladly Beyond -- Anyone Lived in a Pretty How Town -- My Father Moved through Dooms of Love -- Pity this Busy Monster, Manunkind -- What if a Much of a Which of a WInd -- Now Does Our World Descend -- Enter No (Silence is the Blood Whose Flesh) / Black Tambourine -- Praise for an Urn -- Chaplinesque -- Repose of Rivers -- The Wine Menagerie -- For the Marriage of Faustus and Helen -- At Melville's Tomb -- Voyages -- To Brooklyn Bridge (Proem to "The Bridge") -- The River (from "The Bridge") -- The Tunnel (from "The Bridge") -- O Carib Isle! -- Royal Palm -- The Hurricane -- The Broken Tower / Mr. Pope -- The Subway -- Ode to the Confederate Dead -- The Cross -- Sonnets at Christmas (1934) -- The Mediterranean -- Aeneas at Washington -- Pastoral -- Seasons of the Soul -- The Swimmers / Open House -- Cuttings, Later -- Dolor -- The Lost Son -- Elegy for Jane -- Four for Sir John Davies -- The Waking -- Words for the Wind -- The Song -- First Meditation (from "Meditations of an Old Woman") / The Dome of Sunday -- The Potomac -- Nostalgia -- Elegy for a Dead Soldier -- V-Letter -- The Sickness of Adam (from "Adam and Eve') / 90 North -- Second Air Force -- The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner -- A Camp in the Prussian Forest -- The Orient Express -- The Woman at the Washington Zoo / Winter Landscape -- Cloud and Flame -- The Dispossessed -- Three Around the Old Gentleman / In Memory of Arthur Winslow -- Christmas Eve Under Hooker's Statue -- The Drunken Fisherman -- Children of Light -- The Exile's Return -- Colloquy in Black Rock -- The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket -- As a Plane Tree by the Water -- Mr. Edwards and the Spider -- After the Surprising Conversions -- Where the Rainbow Ends -- Falling Asleep Over the Aeneid -- Words for Hart Crane -- Skunk Hour -- The Public Garden / First Snow in Alsace -- Bell Speech -- Still, Citizen Sparrow -- The Death of a Toad -- Lamarck Elaborated -- Pangloss's song: A Comic-Opera Lyric / The Heaven of Animals -- Between Two Prisoners -- The Scratch -- The Dusk of Horses -- The Beholders / On an East Wind From the Wars -- Love Song: I and Thou -- Funeral Oration for a Mouse -- Elegy -- Plague of Dead Sharks / Pleasures -- The Goddess -- Come into Animal Presence -- The Well -- The Novel / Returned to Frisco, 1946 -- The Campus on the Hill -- April Inventory -- Heart's Needle: 5 -- A Flat One / Hart Crane -- The Way -- The Rose -- The Wife -- The Snow / Dictum: For a Masque of Deluge -- When I Came From Colchis -- The Annunciation -- John Otto -- In the Night Fields / a Man Walking and Singing -- Canticle -- May Song -- Ascent -- The Guest -- November 26, 1963

The Poetry anthology, 1912-2002 : ninety years of America's most distinguished verse magazine

Poetry.

To Whistler, American / XOPIKOE / General William Booth enters into heaven / Epigram / Contemporania: Tenzone -- In a station of the metro / Proof of immortality / Trees / Lustra: I, III / Irradiations: I, II, VI, X, XI / Illicit / Code -- Heroics / Chicago poems: Chicago / Eros Turannos / Magi / To KAANON / Coming of war: Actaeon / Nineteen-fourteen: Peace -- Soldier / Love song of J. Alfred Prufrock / Discordants: IV / Answer / Beethoven / Sunday morning

Scholars / In memory of Bryan Lathrop / Lake isle / Epigrams / Observations: La figlia che piange -- Mr. Apollinax -- Morning at the window / Wave symphony / Marriage / Trench poems: Break of day in the trenches / My people: In tall grass / Evening song / Reciprocity / Figs from thistles: First fig -- Second fig -- Thursday / Medicin Malgre Lui / Nostalgia / Propertius: IV / Walt Whitman / Recuerdo / End of the comedy / Horrid voice of science / Song / Pecksniffiana: Fabliau of Florida -- Weeping burgher -- Indigo glass in the grass -- Anecdote of the jar -- Curtains in the house of the metaphysician -- Paltry nude starts on a spring voyage / Danny / To W.C.W.M.D. / Atavism / Cubist portrait

Golden fleece / Poet at night-fall / Sur ma guzzla gracile: Snow man -- Tea at the palaz of Hoon -- Another weeping woman -- Of the manner of addressing clouds -- Of heaven considered as a tomb / Witch of Coos / Wild orchard / In high places / Beginning and end: Knowledge / Monody to the sound of zithers / Wanderings: Champs d'honneur -- Chapter heading / Pastoral / Static autumn / Flower-boat / Chicago / Three songs: Thessalian / Contributions: For instance / Body's head: Head itself / Ars poetica / Crimson tent / At Melville's tomb / Blue Juniata: Streets of air / To a seaman dead on land / In the beginning was a word / Contemporary / O Carib isle! / Things known: Under the hill / Hoar frost

Birds in snow / Published correspondence: Epistle to the Rapalloan / Marching song / Sonnet [Women have loved before ...] / Words on the wind: Fruit of loneliness / Kansas City west bottoms / Hypocrite swift / Sailor / Sonnets of the blood I, II, IV, VII, IX / Kansas boy / Extract / Winter night / Fearful symmetry / Watershed / Part of a novel, part of a poem, part of a play: Steeplejack -- Hero / Urn: Reliquary -- Purgatorio -- Sad Indian -- Reply -- Enrich my resignation / Winter sketches / Magnetic mountain: Condemned / "That's the American style": 4th of July / Empty dwelling places / Local habitation: On inhabiting an orange / At Woodward's gardens / Night-music / "Long live the weeds" / Farewell

Journey to Iceland / We lying by seasand / Poem [You, my photographer] / My love was light / Two mornings and two evenings: Paris, 7 A.M. -- Miracle for breakfast -- From the country to the city -- Song / Past midnight / Bearded oaks / At Carmel highlands / [In the naked bed, in Plaot's cave / Four poems / Marginal field / Sense of the sleight-of-hand man / Sonnet [The crumbled rock of London] / Stanzas in meditation I, IV, V, VI / Perdita / Raleigh was right / [anyone lived in a pretty how town] / Things / Antiques / University / Bloody sire / Memory / Immanent / Conscript: III / To Violet / Henry James at Newport / Upon the heavenly scarp / Dark morning / Springboard / [what if a much of a which of a wind]

Sigmund Freud / Emancipators / Tennis trophy / Dolor / Fable of the ant and the word / First snow on an airfield / Losses / Poem in October / Journal / Part for the whole / Higher empiricism / Poem for my twentieth birthday / "Theory of vision" -- The green eye / Return / Ghost / Night of battle / Motive / Broken bowl / Love poem / Niagara Falls / Schoolyard in April / "Dreams are the royal road to the unconscious" / Dirty word / Fat man in the mirror / [if (touched by love's own secret) we, like homing] / Party / Ultimate poem is abstract / Small prayer / Return of the goddess Artemis / Death of a toad / The metaphor -- 4. Terror and love as fugitives / Traveler / Lear / Sleeping beauty: variation of the prince / Children of the poor / Things of August: 1, 3, 8

Cage / Self unsatisfied runs everywhere / Poem / Little ode / "World without objects is a sensible emptiness" / Alceste in the wilderness / Beauty of things / To an anthologist / Hotel de L'Univers et Portugal / Foreboding / Instrument / Nijinsky / Shield of Achilles / After the Persian / Then the ermine: / Paterson, Book V -- The river of heaven / Sestina in time of winter / From the embassy / Illiterate / Prison song / World of water / Marginalia / Alphabet / Horatian ode / Aging / Chez Jane / Island in the evening / High fidelity / Landed: a valentine / Radio / Bachelor / Cycle of six lyrics -- O pearl and breasted world / Permanently / Birth of Venus / Metamorphosis / Inscriptions on Chinese paintings

Metaphysical / Approach to Theves / Unsettles motorcyclist's vision of his death / King Midas -- The King's speech / Wreaths / Mark of resistance / Morning letter / Holding the mirror up to nature / In time of gold / Shepherd / Mirror / Demands of the muse / To the snake / Skykomish River running / Close-up / Fire at Alexandria / Death of myth-making / The bean eaters -- We real cool / Spider / Returning to roots of first feeling / Nude descending a staircase / Song / In favor of one's time / Population / Gravelly run / Inside the river / [how many moments must (amazing each] / Illustration -- a footnote / Blessing / For the passing of Groucho's pursuer / Notes for a history of poetry / Astronomers of Mont Blanc / Stars over the Dordogne / Black art

Four dream songs: [The high ones die, die] / Death's the classic look / From Heraclitus / For his father / Mad scene / If the birds knew / Fever 103 [degrees] / Nine dream songs: Snow line / After Lorca / Words / Seeing Auden off / Here lies ... / Like Rousseau / About my poems / Metaphysic of snow / Things we dreamt we died for / Through the smoke hole / "Wish to be believed" / Correspondence-school instructor says goodbye to his poetry students / Swan and shadow / Beast in the space / Uses of poetry / Slowly, slowly wisdom gathers / Swmrhydyceirw elegiacs / Cows at night / Demonstration King's men / Fire Island / Invocation / Game / Handbook of versification / Counterparts / Messenger / Homosexuality / Hope / Black maps

Nightletter / Magi / Climbing you / Lost / Life beside this one / Crematorium / Poetry / Vowels of another language / Dido: swarming / Negatives / To D--, dead by her own hand / Poet's farewell to his teeth / Parabola / On hearing a new escalation / May, 1972 / Desire of water / Death & Empedocles 444 B.C. / Verse translator / Last days / The way down: They return / Elegy for yards, pounds, and gallons / Songs of the transformed: Siren song / Ode to pornography / Signs / Pleasure of ruins / Astronomer's journal / Essay of psychiatrists XIV. Their speech, compared with wisdom and poetry / Younger poet / Waiting rooms / "Can I tempt you to a pond walk?" / Translation / Fragmenti / Ice-cream wars

Ash / Poem [Green things are flowers] / On the pier / Hog heaven / Ring / Antigua / Photographs of old New York / Valentine for Matthew Arnold / Three notes toward definitions: Of faith / Elegy / After the solstice / Muse of satire / Man and boy / Love and how it becomes important in our day to day lives / The Venetian vespers: III / Guild / Strolls / One page in The American heritage dictionary / Poems / X ray / Rest / Poem beginning with a life of Wittgenstein / For an early retirement -- Easter morning / Late echo / Waving goodbye / After minor surgery / Static / Shape for it / Closer / June fourth / Dying / Poetry bug / Poet of our climate / Survivor, walking / Cloud creates

On coming to nothing / Schedule of benefits / History of photography / Diogenes tries to forget / Flesh tones / Images of China : Torture -- Chinese courtesy / Death / I am learning to abandon the world / Dusting / What is left to say / Failing in the presence of ants / Edgewater Hospital / Wings and seeds: for my birth mother / How to regain your soul / Corners / Flirtation / Anthem / Sapphics / Their bodies / Origin of order / Boy shepherds' simile / Inverse proportions / Doing the evolution shuffle / Chronometrics IV. Hourglass / Chanson philosophique / Narcissus and Echo / My confessional sestina / Bitch / Poor angels / Dodona: asked of the oracle / Big cars / Rearview mirror / Disappointments of childhood / Janus / Limerick.

Cloud painter / Reading the writing / Preparing to live among the old / Flight / Poet at eighteen / Happiness / Sweet Will / Athene / Fierce girl playing hopscotch / Why fortune is the empress of the world / Cruising with the Beach Boys / Fossil fuel / According to Ovid / Hawk Hill / Illinois: at night, Black Hawk's statue broods / Calling / Oh keep the poet hence / Written in my dream by W.C. Williams / Cold quilt / In bed with a book / Postscript to an elegy / My two lives / Elegy for John, my student dead of AIDS / And the grass did grow / Pole vaulting / Coming into history / Morning jitter / Available now: archaic torsos of both sexes / Refuge / To my mother / Prayer for my father / Armored hearts / Inverse square law of the propagation of light / Bearer / Against poetry

Coordinating conjunction / Witness / Nurture / My ambition / After the alphabets / When I am asked / Waiting on Elvis, 1956 / Dreamwood / To his pulse / Trolling for blues / We are listening / Reading the facts about Frost in The Norton anthology / Other-directed / Lace makers / Faberge's egg / Breathing, the endless news / First reader / Sun king sulking / Heading out / For the Calvinists / Inspiration / Peasants waiting for rain / Summer at North Farm / Utopian melodies / For the bullies of West Morris High / The six-cornered snowflake / Written in blood / Reading Lao Tzu again in the new year / Brieves from The book of Kells / Forgetfulness / An essay on friendship:VII / Little essay on communication / Mrs. Adam

Dead Cartesian / Death of Antinous / Correspondence / Evening walk / Tenth-year elegy / As a child, sleepless / Defining time / Not responsible / Quotations for a winter evening / Take a hike / Out of our hands / Things of the world / Chicamauga / We have not long to love / Few last lines of laundry / Tree of life / Dead man interview / Cave of AIDS / To a young diver / Winged torso of Eros / Final notations / Mingus at The Showplace / Meaner than a junkyard dog: or, Turner's evil twin / Search party / Apollo / Digs in Escondido Canyon / You are right / Adirondack moosehead / Having it out with melancholy / Last words / Telegram from the muse -- Anniversary / Soul / Parents they whould be / Resurrection of the body / Balkan / not so good night in the San Pedro of the world / Music of the spheres

In the age of the radio telescope / Book of the dead man (#33) / Essential story / To reason / Psyche and Eros in Florida / Tools: an ode / Ways of talking / Democracy / Watching dogwood blossoms fall in a parking lot off Route 46 / Failure of similes / Poem on the first day of school / Duesenberg, 1929 / Arch of Titus / On me, the imported skies / Fermi lab: Sisyphus of quarks / Getting through / Angling / Goggles and helmet / Happiness / After the missionaries / At the Vietnam Memorial / For William Stafford / Poem of unrest / TV movie / Does poetry matter? / Dog was crying to-night in Wicklow also / Throwback / Mother Ireland / Arrival of the Titanic / Without / Marginalia / After making love / Horseshoes / Postcard from Greece / Friday night fights / Lover release agreement / Drowning in wheat

Obligation to be happy / Twelfth birthday / Variation on a theme of Baudelaire / Introduction to methods of mathematical physics / Hooray for Hollywood / From ruin / Suit / Voice of Col. von Stauffenberg rising from Purgatory / Middle path / Add-water instant blues / Hotwire / Obsolescence of Thou / Visiting hours are over / Baobob tree 1996 / Patient / At an island farm / Devil's workshop / At the poetry reading / For Allen Ginsberg / Invention of secrecy / Becune Point / Natural selection / Sonnet / Dark between / "Find work" / Old movies / Dead language lesson / Offspring / Psalm for an anniversary / Driving west in 1970 / Detroit, tomorrow / Risk / Wight / Crow is walking / Immigrant picnic / Tomorrow / Figures in the carpets [Kazak]

Pride / Paragraphs from a day-book / To my old poems / Industrial teflon comes into domestic use / Problem was / Platonic lover / Charioteer / Battlefield / Saying goodbye to very young children / Test / Dust / After finding a one hundred dollar bill / Zen living / Land / Academic / What became / How we made a new art on old ground / [His life was the practice] / To luck / Han-Shan fashions a myth / Two evangelists / In glass / How to write a villanelle / For Micha's mother, who signs / Update on the last judgment / Lament for the makers

Collected poems : 1950-2012

Poems

A change of world (1951). Storm warnings -- Aunt Jennifer's tigers -- Vertigo -- The ultimate act -- What ghosts can say -- The kursaal at Interlaken -- Reliquary -- Purely local -- A view of the terrace -- By no means native -- Air without incense -- For the felling of an elm in the Harvard yard -- A clock in the square -- Why else but to forestall this hour -- This beast, this angel -- Eastport to Block Island -- At a deathbed in the year two thousand -- Afterward -- The uncle speaks in the drawing room -- Boundary -- Five o'clock, Beacon Hill -- From a chapter on literature -- An unsaid word -- Mathilde in Normandy -- At a Bach concert -- The rain of blood -- Stepping backward -- Itinerary -- A revivalist in Boston -- The return of the evening grosbeaks -- The springboard -- A change of world -- Unsounded -- Design in living colors -- Walden 1950 -- Sunday evening -- The innocents -- "He remembereth that we are dust" -- Life and letters -- For the conjunction of two planets --

Poems (1950-1951). The prisoners -- Night -- The house at the Cascades -- The roadway -- Pictures by Vuillard -- Orient wheat -- Versailles -- Annotation for an epitaph -- Ideal landscape -- The celebration in the plaza -- The tourist and the town -- Bears -- The insusceptibles -- Lucifer in the train -- Recorders in Italy -- At Hertford House -- The wild sky -- The prospect -- Epilogue for a masque of Purcell -- Villa Adriana -- The explorers -- Landscape of the star -- Letter from the land of sinners -- Concord River -- Apology -- Living in sin -- Autumn equinox -- The strayed village -- The perennial answer -- The insomniacs -- The snow queen -- Love in the museum -- I heard a hermit speak -- Colophon -- A walk by the Charles -- New year morning -- In time of carnival -- The middle-aged -- The marriage portion -- The tree -- Lovers are like children -- When this clangor in the brain -- A view of Merton College -- Holiday -- The capital -- The platform -- Last song -- The diamond cutters --

Snapshots of a daughter-in-law (1963). At majority -- From morning-glory to Petersburg -- Rural reflections -- The knights -- The loser. I kissed you, bride and lost, and went -- Well, you are tougher than I thought. -- The absent-minded are always to blame -- Euryclea's tale -- September 21 -- After a sentence in "Malte Laurids Brigge" -- Snapshots of a daughter-in-law. You, once a belle in Shreveport, -- Banging the coffee-pot into the sink -- A thinking woman sleeps with monsters. -- Knowing themselves too well in one another: -- Dulce ridens, dulce loquens -- When to her lute Corinna sings -- "To have in this uncertain world some stay -- "You all die at fifteen, " said Diderot, -- Not that it is done well, but -- Well, -- Passing on -- The raven -- Merely to know. Wedged in by earthworks -- Let me take you by the hair -- Spirit like water -- Antinoüs: the diaries -- Juvenilia -- Double monologue -- A woman mourned by daughters -- Readings of history. The evil eye -- The confrontation -- Memorabilia -- Consanguinity -- The mirror -- The covenant -- To the airport -- The afterwake -- Artificial intelligence -- A marriage in the 'sixties -- First things -- Attention -- End of an era -- Rustication -- Apology -- Sisters -- In the north -- The classmate -- Peeling onions -- Ghost of a chance -- The well -- Novella -- Face -- Prospective immigrants please note -- Likeness -- The lag -- Always the same -- Peace -- The roofwalker --

Poems (1955-1957). At the Jewish new year -- Moving in winter -- Necessities of life (1966). Poems 1962-1965. Necessities of life -- In the woods -- The corpse-plant -- The trees -- Like this together. Wind rocks the car. -- They're tearing down, tearing up -- We have, as they say, -- Our words misunderstand us. -- Dead winter doesn't die, -- Breakfast in a bowling alley in Utica, New York -- Open-air museum -- Two songs. Sex, as they harshly call it, -- That "old last act"! -- The parting -- Night-pieces: for a child. The crib -- Her waking -- The stranger -- After dark. You are falling asleep and I sit looking at you -- Now let's away from prison-- -- Mourning picture -- "I am in danger--sir--" -- Halfway -- Autumn sequence. An old shoe, an old pot, an old skin, -- Still, as sweetness hardly earned -- Your flag is dried-blood, turkey-comb -- Skin of wet leaves on asphalt. -- Noon -- Not like that -- The knot -- Any husband to any wife -- Side by side -- Spring thunder. Thunder is all it is, and yet -- Whatever you are that weeps -- The power of the dinosaur -- A soldier is here, an ancient figure, -- Over him, over you, a great roof is rising, -- Moth hour -- Focus -- Face to face -- Translations from the Dutch. Martinus Nijhoff, the song of the foolish bees -- Hendrik de Vries, my brother -- Hendrik de Vries, fever -- Gerrit Achterberg, Eben Haëzer -- Gerrit Achterberg, accountability -- Gerrit Achterberg, statue -- Leo Vroman, our family -- Chr. J. van Geel, homecoming -- Chr. J. van Geel, sleepwalking -- Poems (1962-1965). To Judith, taking leave -- Roots -- The parting: II -- Winter --

Leaflets (1969). Night watch. Orion -- Holding out -- Flesh and blood -- In the evening -- Missing the point -- City (from the Dutch of Gerrit Achterberg) -- Dwingelo (from the Dutch of Gerrit Achterberg) -- The demon lover -- Jerusalem -- Charleston in the 1860's -- Night watch -- There are such springlike nights (from the Yiddish of Kadia Molodowsky) -- For a Russian poet. The winter dream -- Summer in the country -- The demonstration -- Night in the kitchen -- 5:30 A.M. -- The break -- Two poems (adapted from Anna Akhmatova). There's a secret boundary hidden in the waving grasses: -- On the terrace, violins played -- The key -- Picnic -- The book -- Abnegation -- Leaflets. Women -- Implosions -- To Frantz Fanon -- Continuum -- On edges -- Violence -- The observer -- Nightbreak -- Gabriel -- Leaflets. The big star, and that other -- Your face -- If, says the Dahomeyan devil, -- Crusaders' wind glinting -- The strain of being born -- The rafts -- Ghazals (homage to Ghalib). The clouds are electric in this university. -- The ones who camped on the slopes, below the bare summit, -- In Central Park we talked of our own cowardice. -- Did you think I was talking about my life? -- Blacked-out on a wagon, part of my life cut out forever-- -- When they mow the fields, I see the world reformed -- Armitage of scrapiron for the radiations of a moon. -- When your sperm enters me, it is altered; -- The sapling springs, the milkweed blooms: obsolete nature. -- The friend I can trust is the one who will let me have my death. -- Last night you wrote on the wall: revolution is poetry. -- A dead mosquito, flattened against a door; -- So many minds in search of bodies -- The order of the small town on the riverbank, -- If these are letters, they will have to be misread. -- From here on, all of us will be living -- A piece of thread ripped-out from a fierce design, -- Poems (1967-1969). Postcard -- White night (from the Yiddish of Kadia Molodowsky) -- The days: spring -- Tear gas --

The will to change (1971). November 1968 -- Study of history -- Planetarium -- The burning of paper instead of children. My neighbor, a scientist and art-collector, ... -- To imagine a time of silence -- "People suffer highly in poverty... -- We lie under the sheet -- I am composing on the typewriter late at night, ... -- I dream I'm the death of Orpheus -- The blue ghazals. Violently asleep in the old house. -- One day of equinoctial light after another, -- A man, a woman, a city. -- Ideas of order...sinner of the Florida keys, -- Late at night I went walking through your difficult wood, -- They say, if you can tell, clasped tight under the blanket, -- There are days when I seem to have nothing -- Frost, burning. The city's ill. -- Pain made her conservative. -- Pierrot Le Fou. Suppose you stood facing -- On a screen as wide as this, I grope for the titles. -- Suppose we had time -- The island blistered our feet. -- When I close my eyes -- To record -- Letters: March 1969. Foreknown. The victor -- Hopes sparkle like water in the clean carafe. -- "I am up at sunrise -- Six months back -- Pieces. Breakpoint -- Relevance -- Memory -- Time and place -- Revelation -- Our whole life -- Your letter -- Stand up -- The stelae -- Snow -- The will to change. That Chinese restaurant was a joke -- Knocked down in the canefield -- Beardless again, phoning -- At the wings of the mirror, peacock plumes -- The cabdriver from the Bronx -- The photograph of the unmade bed -- Images for Godard. Language as city:: Wittgenstein -- To know the extremes of light -- To love, to move perpetually -- At the end of Alphaville -- Interior monologue of the poet: -- A valediction forbidding mourning -- Shooting script. 11/69-2/70. We were bound on the wheel of an endless conversation. -- Ghazal V (adapted from Mirza Ghalib) -- The old blanket. The crumbs of rubbed wool turning up. -- In my imagination I was the pivot of a fresh beginning. -- Of simple choice they are the villagers; ... -- You are beside me like a wall; ... -- Picking the wax to crumbs... -- 3-7/70. A woman waking behind grimed blinds... -- (Newsreel) -- They come to you with their descriptions of your soul. -- The mare's skeleton in the clearing: another sign of life. -- I was looking for a way out of a lifetime's consolations. -- We are driven to odd attempts; ... -- Whatever it was: the grains of the glacier... --

Diving into the wreck (1971-1972). Trying to talk with a man -- When we dead awaken -- Waking in the dark -- Incipience -- After twenty years -- The mirror in which two are seen as one -- From the prison house -- The stranger -- Song -- Dialogue -- Diving into the wreck -- The phenomenology of anger -- Merced -- A primary ground -- Translations -- The ninth symphony of Beethoven understood at last as a sexual message -- Rape -- Burning oneself in -- Burning oneself out -- For a sister -- For the dead -- From a survivor -- August -- Meditations for a savage child -- Poems (1973-1974). Dien bien phu -- Essential resources -- Blood-sister -- The wave -- Re-forming the crystal -- The fourth month of the landscape architect -- The alleged murderess walking in her cell -- White night -- Amnesia -- For L.G.: unseen for twenty years -- Family romance -- From an old house in America -- The fact of a doorframe --

The dream of a common language (1974-1977). Power. Phantasia for Elvira Shatayev -- Origins and history of consciousness -- Splittings -- Hunger -- To a poet -- Cartographies of silence -- The lioness -- Twenty-one love poems. Wherever in this city, screens flicker -- I wake up in your bed. I know I have been dreaming. -- Since we're not young, weeks have to do time -- I come home from you through the early light of spring -- This apartment full of books could crack open -- Your small hands, precisely equal to my own-- -- What kind of beast would turn its life into words? -- I can see myself years back at Sunion, -- our silence today is a pond where drowned things live -- Your dog, tranquil and innocent, dozes through -- Every peak is a crater. This is the law of volcanoes, -- Sleeping, turning in turn like planets -- The rules break like a thermometer, -- It was your vision of the pilot -- (The floating poem, unnumbered) -- If I lay on that beach with you -- Across a city from you, I'm with you, -- No one's fated or doomed to love anyone. -- Rain on the West Side Highway, -- Can it be growing colder when I begin -- That conversation we were always on the edge -- The dark lintels, the blue and foreign stones -- Not somewhere else, but here. Upper Broadway -- Paula Becker to Clara Westhoff -- Nights and days -- Sibling mysteries -- A woman dead in her forties -- Mother-right -- Natural resources -- Toward the solstice -- Transcendental etude --

A wild patience has taken me this far (1978-1981). The images -- Coast to coast -- Integrity -- Culture and anarchy -- For Julia in Nebraska -- Transit -- For memory -- What is possible -- For Ethel Rosenberg -- Mother-in-law -- Heroines -- Grandmothers. Mary Gravely Jones -- Hattie Rice Rich -- Granddaughter -- The spirit of place. Over the hills in Shutesbury, Leverett -- The mountain laurel in bloom -- Strangers are an endangered species -- The river-fog will do for privacy -- Orion plunges like a drunken hunter -- Frame -- Rift -- A vision -- Turning the wheel. Location -- Burden baskets -- Hohokam -- Self-hatred -- Particularity -- Apparition -- Mary Jane Colter, 1904 -- Turning the wheel --

Your native land, your life (1981-1985). Sources -- North American time. For the record -- Education of a novelist -- Virginia 1906 -- Dreams before waking -- When/then -- Upcountry -- One kind of terror: a love poem -- In the wake of home -- What was, is; what might have been, might be -- For an occupant -- Emily Carr -- Poetry: I -- Poetry: II, Chicago -- Poetry: III -- Baltimore: a fragment from the thirties -- New York -- Homage to winter -- Blue rock -- Yom Kippur 1984 -- Edges -- Contradictions: tracking poems. Look: this is January the worst onslaught -- Heart of cold. Bones of cold. Scalp of cold -- My mouth hovers across your breasts -- He slammed his hand across my face and I -- She is carrying my madness and I dread her -- Dear Adrienne: I'm calling you up tonight -- Dear Adrienne, I feel signified by pain -- I'm afraid of prison. Have been all these years. Tearing but not yet town: this page -- Night over the great and the little worlds -- I came out of the hospital like a woman -- Violence as purification: the one idea. -- Trapped in one idea, you can't have your feelings, -- Lately in my dreams I hear long sentences -- You who think I find words for everything, -- It's true, these last few years I've lived -- I have backroads I take to places -- The problem, unstated till now, is how -- If to feel is to be unreliable -- The tobacco fields lie fallow the migrant pickers -- The cat-tails blaze in the corner sunflowers -- In a bald skull sits our friend in a helmet -- You know the government must have pushed them to settle, -- Someone said to me: it's just that we don't -- Did anyone ever know who we were -- You: air-driven reft from the tuber-bitten soil -- The Tolstoyans the Afro-American slaves -- This high summer we love will pour its light -- You who think I find words for everything --

Time's power (1985-1988). Solfeggietto -- This -- Love poem -- Negotiations -- In a classroom -- The novel -- A story -- In memoriam: D.K. -- Children playing checkers at the edge of the forest -- Sleepwalking next to death -- Letters in the family -- The desert as garden of paradise -- Delta -- 6/21 -- For an album -- Dreamwood -- Walking down the road -- The slides -- Harpers Ferry -- One life -- Divisions of labor -- Living memory -- Turning -- An atlas of the difficult world (1988-1991). A dark woman, head bent, listening for something -- Here is a map of our country: -- Two five-pointed star-shaped glass candleholders, ... -- Late summers, early autumns, you can see something that binds -- Catch if you can your country's moment, begin -- A potato explodes in the oven. Poetry and famine: -- (The dream-site) some rooftop, water-tank looming, street-racket strangely quelled -- He thought there would be a limit and that it would stop him. He depended on that: -- One this earth, in this life, as I read your story, you're lonely. -- Soledad. =f. solitude, loneliness, homesickness; lonely retreat. -- One night on Monterey Bay the death-freeze of the century: -- What homage will be paid to a beauty built to last -- (Dedications) I know you are reading this poem -- She -- That mouth -- Olivia -- Eastern war time. Memory lifts her smoky mirror: 1943, -- Girl between home and school, what is that girl -- How telegrams used to come: ring -- What the grown-ups can't speak of would you push -- A young girl knows she is young and meant to live -- A girl wanders with a boy into the woods -- A woman of sixty driving -- A woman wired in memories -- Streets closed, emptied by force guns at corners -- Memory says: want to do right? Don't count on me -- Tattered Kaddish -- Through corralitos under rolls of cloud. Showering after 'flu; stripping the bed; -- If you know who died in that bed, do you know -- That light of outrage is the light of history -- She who died on that bed sees it her way: -- For a friend in travail -- 1948: Jews -- Two arts. I've redone you by daylight. -- Raise it up there and it will -- Darklight. Early day. Grey the air. -- When heat leaves the walls at last -- Final notations --

Dark fields of the republic (1991-1995). What kind of times are these. In those years -- To the days -- Miracle ice cream -- Rachel -- Amends -- Calle visión. Not what you thought: just a turn-off -- Calle visión-- Lodged in the difficult hotel -- Calle vision your heart beats on unbroken -- Ammonia -- The repetitive motions of slaughtering -- You can call on beauty still and it will leap -- In the room in the house -- In the black net -- On the road there is a house -- Reversion -- Revolution in permanence (1953, 1993) -- Then or now. Food packages: 1947 -- Innocence: 1945 -- Sunset, December, 1993 -- Deportations -- And now -- Sending love. Voice -- Sending love: Molly sends it -- Sending love is harmless -- Terrence years ago -- Take -- Late Ghazal -- Six narratives. You drew up the story of your life -- You drew up a story about me -- You were telling a story about women to young men -- You were telling a story about love -- I was telling you a story about love -- You were telling a story about war -- From pierced darkness -- Inscriptions. One: comrade -- Two: movement -- Three: origins -- Four: history -- Five: voices -- Six: edgelit -- Midnight salvage (1995-1998). The art of translation -- For an anniversary -- Midnight salvage -- Char -- Modotti -- Shattered head -- 1941 -- Letters to a young poet -- Camino real -- Plaza street and Flatbush -- Seven skins -- "The night has a thousand eyes" -- Rusted legacy -- A long conversation --

Fox (1998-2000). Victory -- Veterans Day -- For this -- Regardless -- Signatures -- Nora's gaze -- Architect -- Fox -- Messages -- Fire -- Twilight -- Octobrish -- Second sight -- Grating -- Noctilucent clouds -- If your name is on the list -- 1999 -- Terza rima -- Four short poems -- Rauschenberg's bed -- Waiting for you at the mystery spot -- Ends of the Earth -- The school among the ruins (2000-2004). Centaur's requiem -- Equinox -- Tell me -- For June, in the year 2001 -- The school among the ruins -- This evening let's -- Variations on lines from a Canadian poet -- Delivered clean -- The eye -- There is no one story and one story only -- USonian journals 2000 -- Territory shared. Address -- Transparencies -- Livresque -- Collaborations -- Ritual acts -- Point in time -- Alternating current. Sometimes I'm back in that city -- No bad dreams. Night, the bed, the faint clockface. -- Take one, take two -- What's suffered in laughter in aroused afternoons -- A deluxe blending machine -- As finally by wind or grass -- When we are shaken out -- Memorize this -- The painter's house -- After Apollinaire & Brassens -- Slashes -- Trace elements -- Bract -- Dislocations: seven scenarios. Still learning the word -- In a vast dystopic space the small things -- City and world: this infection drinks like a drinker -- For recalcitrancy of attitude -- Faces in the mesh: defiance or disdain -- Not to get up and go back to the drafting table -- Tonight someone will sleep in a stripped apartment -- Five o'clock, January 2003 -- Wait -- Don't take me -- To have written the truth -- Screen door -- Tendril --

Telephone ringing in the labyrinth (2004-2006). Voyage to the denouement -- Skeleton key -- Wallpaper -- In plain sight -- Behind the motel -- Melancholy piano (extracts) -- Archaic -- Long after Stevens -- Improvisation on lines from Edwin Muir's "variations on a time theme" -- Rhyme -- Hotel -- Three elegies. Late style -- As ever -- Fallen figure -- Hubble photographs: after Sappho -- This is not the room -- Unknown quantity -- Tactile value -- Midnight, the same day. When the sun seals my eyes the emblem -- Try to rest now, says a voice -- Even then maybe -- Director's notes -- Rereading The dead lecturer -- Letters censored, shredded, returned to sender, or judged unfit to send -- If/as though -- Time exposures. Glance into glittering moisture -- Is there a doctor in the house -- They'd say she was humorless -- When I stretched out my legs beyond your wishful thinking -- You've got ocean through sheet glass brandy and firelog -- The university reopens as the floods recede -- Via insomnia -- A burning kangaroo -- Ever, again -- Draft #2006 -- Telephone ringing in the labyrinth --

Tonight no poetry will serve (2007-2010). Waiting for rain, for music -- Reading the Iliad (as if) for the first time -- Benjamin revisited -- Innocence -- Domain -- Fracture -- Turbulence -- Tonight no poetry will serve -- Scenes of negotiation -- From sickbed shores -- Axel Avákar. Axel: a backstory -- Axel, in thunder -- I was there, Axel -- Axel, darkly seen, in a glass house -- Ballade of the poverties -- Emergency clinic -- Confrontations -- Circum/stances -- Winterface -- Quarto -- Don't flinch -- Black locket -- Generosity -- You, again -- Powers of recuperation -- Later poems (2010-2012). Itinerary -- For the young anarchists -- Fragments of an opera -- Liberté -- Teethsucking bird -- Undesigned -- Suspended lines -- Tracings -- From strata -- Endpapers.