The fire this time : a new generation speaks about race

"The tradition" / Introduction / Homegoing, AD / The weight / Lonely in America / Where do we go from here? / "The dear pledges of our love": A defense of Phillis Wheatley's husband / White rage / Cracking the code / Queries of unrest / Blacker than thou / Da art of storytellin' (a prequel) / Black and blue / The condition of black life is one of mourning / Know your rights! / Composite pops / Theories of time and space / This far: Notes on love and revolution / Message to my daughters

Up verses down : poems, paintings, and serious nonsense

Poems. Selections

Up vs. down

PEOPLE ARE PEOPLE : Invitation - My Tree - Ayda - Rexx - Face It - Grandma and I - Pop's Warning - Papa's Suit - Picnic - Tuesday - In Rome - Tricksters - Chris & Trudy - Future Baker - You -- FOODSTUFFS: Sea Candy - New Food - The Omnivore - Space Bakery - In Common - Stingy - Borscht -- SLEEPY TIME : Dream Machine - Slumber Supplies - Snorecital - New Technique - Sleepstealer - Snoozy Lizzie - LaFeete - Buster -- ODDMENTS : The Old Junk Shack - Choose - Simile Park - Marbles - Motes - The Ruby - Melancholy - Go! Do! -- ANIMAL LIFE : Sharks - Poised - Otter Piano - Bandicoots - Foggy Oasis - Aardoggy - Cur Feud - Little Worker - Two Dogs Plus - The Pangolin - Whereabouts - Bridges - Up Verses Down - The Outro.

The school among the ruins : poems, 2000-2004

Centaur's requiem -- Equinox -- Tell me -- For June, in the year 2001 -- School among the ruins -- This evening let's -- Variations on lines from a Canadian poet -- Delivered clean -- 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 -- Deluxe blending machine -- As finally by wind or grass -- When we are shaken out -- Memorize this -- 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: Notes on the poems -- Acknowledgments.

The best American poetry, 2023

The Bluish Mathematics of Darkness / Covering Stan Getz / Fortune / We get the Dialectic fairly well / A Deafening Prayer / Three Poems / from 13th Balloon / That's American / Antediluvian / Yes / The Shape of Biddle City / World's End / The Songbird Academy / Photo Shoot / The Years / After the Exhibition / Instagram / Days at the Races / 330 College Avenue / Night Herons / Revisionary / Other News on Page 24 / Strange as the Rules of Grammar / All Right / Admonitions, Afternoons / Best Original Enigma in Verse / The Devil's Wife Explains Broken 45s / I Ask that I Do Not Die / A Marvelous Sky / Straight, No Chaser / Three Shrimp Boats on the Horizon / [Misread 'master craftsman'] / from Autobiography of My Alter Ego / I Meant To / Green Moon / Traces / Hooky / Places with Terrible Wi-Fi / Coffee with Lavender / Pi-Day / Moonrise / Tablets VI / Dating Buddha / Chopin in Palma / Extraordinary Life of Tadeusz Kościuszko in Several Invoices / As I Wander Lonely in the Cloud / The Facts / from The Feeling Sonnets / Sunday Cave / In space surface tension will force / a small blob of liquid to form a sphere / Film Theory / Brown Furniture / Poem No. 2: My Kind of Feminism / Something I've Not Bought / Dramaturgy / All the Time Blues Villanelle / Little Fugue (State) / A Lost Poem of Jesus / Only Death Wows Me / Green Goddess / These Squatting Girls in Black Spandex / Various Gloves / Wildfire Season / Listening in Deep Space / Full Haunt / The Steeplejack / The Poems Attributed to Him May Be by Different Poets / Three Poems from 13 Moons Kora / I can see Mars / And What My Species Did / Great Sizzle / Sweepstake / Song for Mie Yim / Parallel Bars / The Empty Grave of Zsa Zsa Gabor

Garvey in the dark

Garvey -- Angie -- The Mystery of Genes -- Suburban Morning -- Manny for Short -- January Reports of a Mystery Illness -- Week-Night Lesson -- Checkmate -- Oh, Well -- February Whispers -- Spring Break Countdown -- Breaking News -- Easter Prep -- Fist Bump -- Girlfriend -- Average Afternoon -- Late for Dinner -- In the Novel I'm Reading -- The Morning After -- Friday the 13th -- Heavy Load -- Varsity Blues -- Secrets -- Breonna Taylor -- Compared to What -- Sunday Cinema -- Take a Break, Mom -- Free Holiday -- At Manny's -- Attention! -- Phone Call Invitation -- March 19 -- Lock What? -- Aisle Five -- New Day -- New Song -- 55-Degree Shuffle -- Get Packing -- Beware the Ides of March 24th -- Ripples -- Singer Sewing -- Mean Clean -- Hand-Washing Drill -- Checking In with Manny -- First Day Back to School, Sort Of -- April Fools' -- Hide-and-Seek -- Social Distance -- Priority Bummer -- Bandit? -- Back Home -- Cleaning -- Cabin Fever -- Nonstop -- One Bright Note -- Missing in Action -- Employed -- Comfort -- Pre-algebra -- Scales -- Losing Connection -- Evaporation -- Ttyl -- School Day -- Shadow -- Life's a Beach -- Race -- Murder Hornets -- Virtually Speaking -- Table Talk -- Dad: The IT Guy Comes Home -- Google Sheets -- Ballot Box -- Comic Relief -- Face Time -- The Invisible Beast -- Angie's Joy -- Garvey's Birthday -- Gift -- Hospital Emergency -- Broadcast -- Cough -- Fitness Freak -- Lost and Found -- Angie'sTurn -- Sleepless -- Nowhere to Hide -- Pandemic Multiplication -- What If, What -- Conversation -- Quarantine -- Off-limits -- Good News -- Special Delivery -- Fresh Air -- Home Nurse -- Book Two on Order -- Talk It Out -- Itchy Feet -- Refuge -- Essential -- It's Complicated -- Witness -- Tic, Tic, Tic -- Going Numb -- Floyd's Final Breath -- After -- Nothing to Say -- Protests -- I Get It -- Countdown to Summer Break -- Lost in Space -- Sneak -- Full Steam -- Done! -- Peaceful Protest -- Great Escape -- Jealous -- June Gloom -- After-Dinner Whispers -- Downhill -- Song Interrupted -- Thermometer -- The Runs -- The Return of Quiet -- End of Quarantine -- Details -- Concert -- Weight Loss -- Appetite in Sight -- Mail Call -- Getting Some Air -- Better Days -- Stroll -- Tough Talk -- Meat on His Bones.

The poems of Dylan Thomas

Poems

A New directions book

New Directions book.

I know this vicious minute's hour -- Cool, oh no cool -- The air you breath -- Cabaret -- Sometimes the sky's too bright -- Rain cuts the place we tread -- The morning, space for Leda -- The spire cranes -- Time enough to rot -- It's not in misery but in oblivion -- The natural day and night -- Conceive these images in air -- The neophyte, baptized in smiles -- To be encompassed by the brilliant earth -- Although through my bewildered way -- High on a hill -- Since, on quiet night -- They are the only dead who did not love -- Little problem -- When you have ground such beauty down to dust -- There's plenty in the world -- Written for a personal epitaph -- Never to reach the oblivious dark -- Children of darkness -- got no wings -- Too long, skeleton -- Nearly summer -- Youth calls to age -- Being but men -- Out of the sighs -- Upon your held-out hand -- Walking in gardens -- Now the thirst parches lips and tongue -- Lift up your face -- Let it be known -- The midnight road -- With windmills turning wrong directions -- The gossipers -- Before the gas fades -- Was there a time -- 'We who are young are old' -- Out of a war of wits -- Their faces shone under some radiance -- I have longed to move away -- To follow the fox -- The ploughman's gone -- Poet : 1935 -- Light, I know, treads the ten million stars -- And death shall have no dominion -- Out of the pit -- We lying by seasand -- No man believes -- Why east wind chills -- Greek play in a garden -- Praise to the architects -- Here in the spring -- We have the fairy tales by heart -- 'Find meat on bones' -- Ears in the turrets hear -- The woman speaks -- Shall gods be said to thump the clouds -- The hand that signed the paper -- Let for one moment a faith statement -- You are the ruler of this realm of flesh -- Before I knocked -- We see rise the secret wind -- Take the needles and the knives -- Not forever shall the Lord of the red hail -- Before we mothernaked fall -- The sun burns the morning -- My hero bares his nerves -- Song Through these lashed rings -- The force that through the green fuse drives the flower -- From love's first fever to her plague -- The almanac to time -- All that I owe the fellows of the grave -- Here lie the beasts -- Light breaks where no sun shines -- A letter to my aunt discussing the correct approach to modern poetry -- See, says the lime -- This bread I break -- Your pain shall be a music -- A process in the weather of the heart -- Our eunuch dreams -- Where once the waters of your face -- I see the boys of summer -- In the beginning -- If I were tickled by the rub of love -- Twelve -- When once the twilight locks no longer -- Especially when the October wind -- When, like a running grave -- I fellowed sleep -- I dreamed my genesis -- My world is pyramid -- All all and all the dry worlds lever -- Grief thief of time -- I, in my intricate image -- Do you not father me -- How soon the servant sun -- A grief ago -- Should lanterns shine -- Altarwise by owl-light -- Incarnate devil -- Hold hard, these ancient minutes in the cuckoo's month -- Foster the light -Today, the insect -- The seed-at-zero -- Now Then was my neophyte -- It is the sinners' dust-tongued bell -- I make this in a warring absence -- O make me a mask -- Not from this anger -- How shall my animal -- After the funeral -- O Chatterton -- When all my five and country senses see -- The tombstone told when she died -- On no work of words -- I, the first named -- A saint about to fall -- Twenty-four years -- The molls -- Once it was the colour of saying -- Because the pleasure-bird whistles -- 'If my head hurt a hair's foot' -- To others than you -- Unluckily for death -- Paper and sticks -- When I woke -- Once below a time -- There was a savior -- The countryman's return -- Into her lying down head -- Request to Leda -- Deaths and entrances -- On a wedding anniversary -- Ballad of the long-legged bait -- Love in the asylum -- On the marriage of a virgin -- The hunchback in the park -- Among those killed in the dawn raid was a man aged a hundred -- Ceremony after a fire raid -- Last night I dived my beggar arm -- Poem Poem in October New quay -- Vision and prayer -- Holy spring -- A winter's tale -- A refusal to mourn the death, by fire, of a child in London -- This side of the truth -- The conversation of prayer -- Lie still, sleep becalmed -- Fern Hill -- In my craft or sullen art -- In country sleep -- Over Sir John's hill -- In the white giant's thigh -- Lament -- Do not go gentle into that good night -- Poem on his birthday In country heaven -- Elegy -- The song of the mischievous dog -- Forest picture -- Missing -- In dreams -- Idyll of unforgetfulness -- Of any flower -- Clown in the moon -- To a slender wind -- The elm -- The oak -- The pine -- To the spring-spirit -- Triolet -- You shall not despair -- My river -- We will be conscious of our sanctity -- I have come to catch your voice -- When your furious motion -- No thought can trouble my unwholesome pose -- No, pigeon, I am too wise -- Woman on tapestry -- Pillar breaks -- It's light that makes the intervals -- Let me escape -- The rod can lift its twining head -- Admit the sun.

The collected poems of Philip Lamantia

Poems

Touch Of The Marvelous (1943-1949) -- Touch of the Marvelous -- Plumage of Recognition -- Islands of Africa -- I Am Coming -- Apparition of Charles Baudelaire -- Ruins -- By the Curtain of Architecture -- There Are Many Pathways to the Garden -- Automatic World -- Hermetic Bird -- Moments of Exile -- Beneath this bed the caverns gather me like water -- I am a criminal when your body is bare upon the universe -- Civil World -- Invisible -- Enormous Window -- Mirror and Heart -- Infernal Landscape -- Winter Day -- Awakened from Sleep -- Diabolic Condition -- Celestial Estrangement -- Submarine Languor -- You and I Have Nothing to Fear -- Image of Ardor -- To You Henry Miller of the Orchestra the Mirror the Revolver and of the Stars of Stars -- From Erotic Poems (1946) -- Upon the earth eyes opened in wonder -- You flee into a corridor of stars -- Scenario -- From Dark Illusion to Love's Reality -- I open for you an ancient book -- Nativity of Love -- Autumn Poems -- Answer from a Place of Waiting -- I am forlorn -- Sorrow -- Night Vision -- Unable to move and hardly breathing -- Spring's Entry -- Two Worlds -- 1946 -- Simple Answer to the Enemy -- Poems 1943-1955 -- Ages in the Wind -- Symbols -- Another Autumn Coming -- New Year -- Revelations of a New Order -- Break of Day -- This Room Is My Cosmos -- Descent -- Inside the Journey -- Animal Snared in His Revery -- Elementals -- Beneath occidental peripheries -- From Tau (1955) -- To see this evil from its core -- Owl -- Shot into the Sun -- Going Forth by Day -- Ground grade guard the crucible -- Out of crystal beginnings -- In a garden that isn't, but will be -- Flame gates open to water gongs -- She sped to me a winter word -- To the Music -- Question -- To the flat lands by the hills of Suum Nar -- 18 beings and The Other -- Broken language hisses -- Ekstasis (1959) -- Preface -- Christ -- Fragments from an Aeroplane -- Interior Suck of the Night -- Iguana iguana -- Les Langueurs Allongees -- Sheri -- What gift to bring -- Ball -- Mysterium Mysticus Ecclesia -- Dead Smoke -- Deirdre -- In a grove -- Confirmation -- John Hoffman -- Ah Blessed Virgin Mary -- Man is in pain -- As some light fell -- Poor Paradoxes -- Scorpion Bite -- Our Lady of the Snow -- New Evil -- Boobus -- PUT DOWN -- McClure's Favorite -- Observatory -- What made tarot cards and fleurs de lis -- Terror Conduction -- Intersection -- It's summer's moment in autumn's hour -- It was a time I didn't see the beast -- Binoculars -- From Narcotica (1959) -- I Demand Extinction of Laws Prohibiting Narcotic Drugs! -- Bones -- Opium Cocaine Hemp -- Opium, Put Down of Laws against Opium! -- Memoria -- Poems 1955-1962 -- Scenes -- Fud at Foster's -- Immediate Life -- For Real -- Rest in Peace -- Inscription for the Vanishing Republic -- Orphic Poem -- Call -- Politics Poem -- Lava -- That I burned by the screech owl castle in Berkeley Hills -- New York Blank Poem New York -- Cool Apocalypse -- Apocalypses -- Blank Poem for Poe -- Visions -- marvelous unveils its face -- Did I appear in angeltime -- Last Days of San Francisco -- 34 Words Six Lines -- Time Is as Eternity Is: On the White Road: The Muse -- Witness -- Advent -- All Hail Pope John the Twenty Third! -- Poem for John Wieners Written on His Paper -- Shooting down to L.A. in an open car -- Juggler in the Desert -- Scat -- In every way i am dazzled by you -- Jet Powered Suicide -- My Labyrinth -- Why write about "things"? -- Chrism Song -- Make a poem your heart contained in mine -- It is because i cannot have you i have you -- Poem for Indians -- Ceylonese Tea Candor (Pyramid Scene) -- Rompi -- Crystals -- Kosmos -- Year of Weir -- Origins of Weir -- Destroyed Works Typescript (1948-1960) -- Destroyed Works -- Destroyed Works (1962) -- Hypodermic Light -- It's absurd I can't bring my soul to the eye of odoriferous fire -- That the total hatred -- Old after midnight spasm -- They shot me full of holes -- U.S.S. San Francisco -- Immense blank void -- In camera of sempiternity you walk -- This World's Beauty -- Resurrections -- It is I who create the world and put it to rest -- theater of masked actors in a trance -- I have never made a poem -- Mantic Notebook -- Apocamantica -- Fin del Mundo -- poem says the bombs of America went off -- At the sleeper of inveterate cars -- Apocalyptic -- gods made a circle -- gazelle fixated in clock work -- Lost in a crowd -- I've come to the time of brain crashed stars -- This is the night holding gum -- Sick of you, owl, talking nonsense in my head -- Empty visions blur my soul -- Secret Weapons -- Table of Visions -- Opus Magnum -- Deamin -- From the Front -- Still Poems -- Vacuous Suburbs -- This is the grey limit -- There's a mountain of houses upside down -- night is a space of white marble -- There is this distance between me and what I see -- I have given fair warning -- Spansule -- Jeanlu -- Morning Light Song -- High -- Infernal Muses -- Crab -- Bride Front and Back -- Till the End of Time -- Peroxide Subway -- Subconscious Mexico City New York -- How depressing here I am -- Parades melt eternally -- I cut out, I mean there was no proper head to the time -- Note on Destroyed Works and later -- Poems 1963-1964 -- Song for the Intellect -- Babbel is a language extending the sonic level -- Babbel/Ali ben buri de asalium -- New Babbel -- J. Weir -- Mumbles -- Bloody Neons -- From My Athens Terrace Ruin -- Going west east directionless pack to Indis -- At Random -- She's Appeared and Disappeared at Once -- From Selected Poems (1967) -- Third Eye -- Blue Grace -- Sun Is Bleeding over the Sky! -- Ancients Have Returned among Us -- She Speaks the Morning's Filigree -- Gork! -- Voice of Earth Mediums -- What Is Not Strange? -- Gothic Games -- Towers of the Rose Dawn -- Capricorn Is a Wounded Knee -- Astro-mancy -- After the Virus -- Coat of Arms -- Difficult First Steps -- Poems 1965-1970 -- Without Props -- There is no death, only sempiternal change -- Thorn of the Air -- Flying Fix -- Poem for John Hoffman the Poet -- Interjections -- Let the tree shaped minion pinion the wonder of drugged dogs -- Blood Of The Air (1970) -- To the Reader -- Libran Age -- I Touch You -- You wait you wail -- Altesia or the Lava Flow of Mount Rainier -- Blue Locus -- Talisman -- Flaming Teeth -- Open your head of cisterns -- San Francisco melts as I come together -- maginot line of poetry has not been invented -- With the opening of light in my soul -- Ephemeris -- Out of My Hat of Shoals -- Smile Berries -- Fantast -- Faery Chambers -- Seattle -- Little hole of black hallucination on the wall -- mosque of your eye has exploded -- Horse Angel -- Comics -- Tonight Burned with Solar Slime -- Flaming Teeth -- Penetrant Tumors -- Analog -- World without End -- Poems 1970-1980 -- Little Washington DC Dream -- 3 Poems -- On the plain / of the angels -- gorgon of the language cabal -- Flying beasts / are riveted on the air's toiling -- Hand Moves the Word Flies -- Liberty -- Luminous Lady -- Only Creative Violence Reveals the Beauty of the Marvelous -- Panty Hose Stamped with the Head of the Medusa -- Between Sleep and Waking -- Tobacco of Harar -- Weight -- Becoming Visible (1981) -- Redwood Highway -- Romantic Movement -- Bed of Sphinxes -- Primavera -- Becoming Visible -- Visibilities -- In Yerba Buena -- Oraibi -- Bile Nature -- Drama Set -- Ultima Thule -- Mask of Geometry -- Beyond This Trail of Crystal Rails -- Poe-Baudelaire, one echo-in-two -- Dissolving Lead -- Erotic Limned -- Vibration -- Below the Surface -- Oneiric Reversal -- Openers -- Violet Star -- This Moment Eternal Medusa -- Precipitous Oracle -- Modular Prey -- Pulsate with stoppages -- Radiant Opal -- To Begin Then Not Now -- Life Sciences -- Curtain of Magic Turns over Motors of Sleep -- Fulcrum Loaded -- At the Emu's Domain -- Jewels of the Vatican Board the Atlantic Cipher -- Days Fall Asleep with Riddles -- Uncertain Sciences -- Green Lion -- Oblique and Direct -- Hypochondriac Weather -- Slice of the Atmosphere -- Element You Love -- Time Traveler's Potlatch -- Notes -- Poems 1981-1985 -- Willow Wand

-- Meadowlark West -- Sentiment for the Cordials of Scorpions -- Birder's Lament -- Poetics by Pluto -- Itinerary of Drift Bane -- Mexico City Central Moon -- Bird: Apparition of Charlie Parker -- Elegy on the Migrating Nightingales Massacred by Nuclear Physics at Chernobyl -- Meadowlark West (1986) -- Isn't Poetry the Dream of Weapons? -- Native Medicine -- Tree -- Surrealism in the Middle Ages -- West -- Ship of Seers -- Haven Root -- Invincible Birth -- Black Window -- America in the Age of Gold -- Wilderness Sacred Wilderness -- Sweetbrier -- Romantist -- Revery Has Its Reasons -- Virgo Noir -- Irrational -- Game's the Right Title -- Words I Dream -- Phi -- Marco Polo Zone -- Zanoni A Western Border Town -- Buncombe -- Death Jets -- Fading Letters -- Mysteries of Writing in the West -- Spring -- American Place -- Fourth of July -- Geometric Hallucination -- Reached the Turn -- Exorcist Exercises -- Other States -- There -- Shasta -- Poems 1986-1993 -- From No Closure -- Haiku for Satie -- Once in a Lifetime Starry Scape -- From Triads.

From Bed Of Sphinxes: New And Selected Poems (1997) -- Poem for Andre Breton -- Ex Cathedra -- Unachieved -- Diana Green -- Egypt -- Egypt II -- Passionate Ornithology Is Another Kind of Yoga -- From Symbolon (1998-2001) -- To be served continually with this platter of nothingness -- Ultimate Zone -- Seraphim City -- Theoria -- Recall -- Pure Automatism -- Not with the cerebrating head -- Echo of St. Therese of the Child Jesus -- Facing branches of a flowering tree -- Hyper Sleep -- Humans Have Just a Few Genomes More Than Fruit Flies -- Today and yesterday are fusing -- Triple V: The Day Non-surrealism Became Surrealist -- Hidden Truth.

The collected poems of Philip Lamantia

Poems

Touch Of The Marvelous (1943-1949) -- Touch of the Marvelous -- Plumage of Recognition -- Islands of Africa -- I Am Coming -- Apparition of Charles Baudelaire -- Ruins -- By the Curtain of Architecture -- There Are Many Pathways to the Garden -- Automatic World -- Hermetic Bird -- Moments of Exile -- Beneath this bed the caverns gather me like water -- I am a criminal when your body is bare upon the universe -- Civil World -- Invisible -- Enormous Window -- Mirror and Heart -- Infernal Landscape -- Winter Day -- Awakened from Sleep -- Diabolic Condition -- Celestial Estrangement -- Submarine Languor -- You and I Have Nothing to Fear -- Image of Ardor -- To You Henry Miller of the Orchestra the Mirror the Revolver and of the Stars of Stars -- From Erotic Poems (1946) -- Upon the earth eyes opened in wonder -- You flee into a corridor of stars -- Scenario -- From Dark Illusion to Love's Reality -- I open for you an ancient book -- Nativity of Love -- Autumn Poems -- Answer from a Place of Waiting -- I am forlorn -- Sorrow -- Night Vision -- Unable to move and hardly breathing -- Spring's Entry -- Two Worlds -- 1946 -- Simple Answer to the Enemy -- Poems 1943-1955 -- Ages in the Wind -- Symbols -- Another Autumn Coming -- New Year -- Revelations of a New Order -- Break of Day -- This Room Is My Cosmos -- Descent -- Inside the Journey -- Animal Snared in His Revery -- Elementals -- Beneath occidental peripheries -- From Tau (1955) -- To see this evil from its core -- Owl -- Shot into the Sun -- Going Forth by Day -- Ground grade guard the crucible -- Out of crystal beginnings -- In a garden that isn't, but will be -- Flame gates open to water gongs -- She sped to me a winter word -- To the Music -- Question -- To the flat lands by the hills of Suum Nar -- 18 beings and The Other -- Broken language hisses -- Ekstasis (1959) -- Preface -- Christ -- Fragments from an Aeroplane -- Interior Suck of the Night -- Iguana iguana -- Les Langueurs Allongees -- Sheri -- What gift to bring -- Ball -- Mysterium Mysticus Ecclesia -- Dead Smoke -- Deirdre -- In a grove -- Confirmation -- John Hoffman -- Ah Blessed Virgin Mary -- Man is in pain -- As some light fell -- Poor Paradoxes -- Scorpion Bite -- Our Lady of the Snow -- New Evil -- Boobus -- PUT DOWN -- McClure's Favorite -- Observatory -- What made tarot cards and fleurs de lis -- Terror Conduction -- Intersection -- It's summer's moment in autumn's hour -- It was a time I didn't see the beast -- Binoculars -- From Narcotica (1959) -- I Demand Extinction of Laws Prohibiting Narcotic Drugs! -- Bones -- Opium Cocaine Hemp -- Opium, Put Down of Laws against Opium! -- Memoria -- Poems 1955-1962 -- Scenes -- Fud at Foster's -- Immediate Life -- For Real -- Rest in Peace -- Inscription for the Vanishing Republic -- Orphic Poem -- Call -- Politics Poem -- Lava -- That I burned by the screech owl castle in Berkeley Hills -- New York Blank Poem New York -- Cool Apocalypse -- Apocalypses -- Blank Poem for Poe -- Visions -- marvelous unveils its face -- Did I appear in angeltime -- Last Days of San Francisco -- 34 Words Six Lines -- Time Is as Eternity Is: On the White Road: The Muse -- Witness -- Advent -- All Hail Pope John the Twenty Third! -- Poem for John Wieners Written on His Paper -- Shooting down to L.A. in an open car -- Juggler in the Desert -- Scat -- In every way i am dazzled by you -- Jet Powered Suicide -- My Labyrinth -- Why write about "things"? -- Chrism Song -- Make a poem your heart contained in mine -- It is because i cannot have you i have you -- Poem for Indians -- Ceylonese Tea Candor (Pyramid Scene) -- Rompi -- Crystals -- Kosmos -- Year of Weir -- Origins of Weir -- Destroyed Works Typescript (1948-1960) -- Destroyed Works -- Destroyed Works (1962) -- Hypodermic Light -- It's absurd I can't bring my soul to the eye of odoriferous fire -- That the total hatred -- Old after midnight spasm -- They shot me full of holes -- U.S.S. San Francisco -- Immense blank void -- In camera of sempiternity you walk -- This World's Beauty -- Resurrections -- It is I who create the world and put it to rest -- theater of masked actors in a trance -- I have never made a poem -- Mantic Notebook -- Apocamantica -- Fin del Mundo -- poem says the bombs of America went off -- At the sleeper of inveterate cars -- Apocalyptic -- gods made a circle -- gazelle fixated in clock work -- Lost in a crowd -- I've come to the time of brain crashed stars -- This is the night holding gum -- Sick of you, owl, talking nonsense in my head -- Empty visions blur my soul -- Secret Weapons -- Table of Visions -- Opus Magnum -- Deamin -- From the Front -- Still Poems -- Vacuous Suburbs -- This is the grey limit -- There's a mountain of houses upside down -- night is a space of white marble -- There is this distance between me and what I see -- I have given fair warning -- Spansule -- Jeanlu -- Morning Light Song -- High -- Infernal Muses -- Crab -- Bride Front and Back -- Till the End of Time -- Peroxide Subway -- Subconscious Mexico City New York -- How depressing here I am -- Parades melt eternally -- I cut out, I mean there was no proper head to the time -- Note on Destroyed Works and later -- Poems 1963-1964 -- Song for the Intellect -- Babbel is a language extending the sonic level -- Babbel/Ali ben buri de asalium -- New Babbel -- J. Weir -- Mumbles -- Bloody Neons -- From My Athens Terrace Ruin -- Going west east directionless pack to Indis -- At Random -- She's Appeared and Disappeared at Once -- From Selected Poems (1967) -- Third Eye -- Blue Grace -- Sun Is Bleeding over the Sky! -- Ancients Have Returned among Us -- She Speaks the Morning's Filigree -- Gork! -- Voice of Earth Mediums -- What Is Not Strange? -- Gothic Games -- Towers of the Rose Dawn -- Capricorn Is a Wounded Knee -- Astro-mancy -- After the Virus -- Coat of Arms -- Difficult First Steps -- Poems 1965-1970 -- Without Props -- There is no death, only sempiternal change -- Thorn of the Air -- Flying Fix -- Poem for John Hoffman the Poet -- Interjections -- Let the tree shaped minion pinion the wonder of drugged dogs -- Blood Of The Air (1970) -- To the Reader -- Libran Age -- I Touch You -- You wait you wail -- Altesia or the Lava Flow of Mount Rainier -- Blue Locus -- Talisman -- Flaming Teeth -- Open your head of cisterns -- San Francisco melts as I come together -- maginot line of poetry has not been invented -- With the opening of light in my soul -- Ephemeris -- Out of My Hat of Shoals -- Smile Berries -- Fantast -- Faery Chambers -- Seattle -- Little hole of black hallucination on the wall -- mosque of your eye has exploded -- Horse Angel -- Comics -- Tonight Burned with Solar Slime -- Flaming Teeth -- Penetrant Tumors -- Analog -- World without End -- Poems 1970-1980 -- Little Washington DC Dream -- 3 Poems -- On the plain / of the angels -- gorgon of the language cabal -- Flying beasts / are riveted on the air's toiling -- Hand Moves the Word Flies -- Liberty -- Luminous Lady -- Only Creative Violence Reveals the Beauty of the Marvelous -- Panty Hose Stamped with the Head of the Medusa -- Between Sleep and Waking -- Tobacco of Harar -- Weight -- Becoming Visible (1981) -- Redwood Highway -- Romantic Movement -- Bed of Sphinxes -- Primavera -- Becoming Visible -- Visibilities -- In Yerba Buena -- Oraibi -- Bile Nature -- Drama Set -- Ultima Thule -- Mask of Geometry -- Beyond This Trail of Crystal Rails -- Poe-Baudelaire, one echo-in-two -- Dissolving Lead -- Erotic Limned -- Vibration -- Below the Surface -- Oneiric Reversal -- Openers -- Violet Star -- This Moment Eternal Medusa -- Precipitous Oracle -- Modular Prey -- Pulsate with stoppages -- Radiant Opal -- To Begin Then Not Now -- Life Sciences -- Curtain of Magic Turns over Motors of Sleep -- Fulcrum Loaded -- At the Emu's Domain -- Jewels of the Vatican Board the Atlantic Cipher -- Days Fall Asleep with Riddles -- Uncertain Sciences -- Green Lion -- Oblique and Direct -- Hypochondriac Weather -- Slice of the Atmosphere -- Element You Love -- Time Traveler's Potlatch -- Notes -- Poems 1981-1985 -- Willow Wand

-- Meadowlark West -- Sentiment for the Cordials of Scorpions -- Birder's Lament -- Poetics by Pluto -- Itinerary of Drift Bane -- Mexico City Central Moon -- Bird: Apparition of Charlie Parker -- Elegy on the Migrating Nightingales Massacred by Nuclear Physics at Chernobyl -- Meadowlark West (1986) -- Isn't Poetry the Dream of Weapons? -- Native Medicine -- Tree -- Surrealism in the Middle Ages -- West -- Ship of Seers -- Haven Root -- Invincible Birth -- Black Window -- America in the Age of Gold -- Wilderness Sacred Wilderness -- Sweetbrier -- Romantist -- Revery Has Its Reasons -- Virgo Noir -- Irrational -- Game's the Right Title -- Words I Dream -- Phi -- Marco Polo Zone -- Zanoni A Western Border Town -- Buncombe -- Death Jets -- Fading Letters -- Mysteries of Writing in the West -- Spring -- American Place -- Fourth of July -- Geometric Hallucination -- Reached the Turn -- Exorcist Exercises -- Other States -- There -- Shasta -- Poems 1986-1993 -- From No Closure -- Haiku for Satie -- Once in a Lifetime Starry Scape -- From Triads.

From Bed Of Sphinxes: New And Selected Poems (1997) -- Poem for Andre Breton -- Ex Cathedra -- Unachieved -- Diana Green -- Egypt -- Egypt II -- Passionate Ornithology Is Another Kind of Yoga -- From Symbolon (1998-2001) -- To be served continually with this platter of nothingness -- Ultimate Zone -- Seraphim City -- Theoria -- Recall -- Pure Automatism -- Not with the cerebrating head -- Echo of St. Therese of the Child Jesus -- Facing branches of a flowering tree -- Hyper Sleep -- Humans Have Just a Few Genomes More Than Fruit Flies -- Today and yesterday are fusing -- Triple V: The Day Non-surrealism Became Surrealist -- Hidden Truth.

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.

The poetics of space

Poétique de l'espace. English

The warped side of our universe : an odyssey through black holes, wormholes, time travel, and gravitational waves

That was now, this is then : poems

Poems. Selections

Road trip -- Commas, dashes, ellipses, full stops, question marks -- Dialectic -- Meeting (thick) -- Meeting (thin) -- Birding -- Nemesis -- Enlightenment -- Robocall -- Who knows where or when? -- Your living eyes -- Collins Ferry Landing -- City of grief -- Cliffhanging -- Goya's mired men fighting with cudgels -- Night city -- The idol of the tribe -- Man and woman talking -- Marriage -- Visiting San Francisco -- Who is this guy? -- North American sequence -- Thunderstruck -- The estuary -- Soliloquy.