Serengeti IV : sustaining biodiversity in a coupled human-natural system

Preface and acknowledgments -- Conservation in a human-dominated world / Shaping the Serengeti ecosystem / Natural Sources of Heterogeneity and Disturbance. Scales of change in the greater Serengeti ecosystem / Fire in the Serengeti ecosystem : history, drivers, and consequences / Spatial and temporal drivers of plant structure and diversity in Serengeti savannas / Why are wildebeest the most abundant herbivore in the Serengeti ecosystem? / Climate-induced effects on the Serengeti mammalian food web / Response of Biodiversity to Disturbance. From bacteria to elephants : effects of land-use legacies on biodiversity and ecosystem processes in the Serengeti-Mara ecosystem / Biodiversity and the dynamics of riverine forests in Serengeti / Invertebrates of the Serengeti : disturbance effects on arthropod diversity and abundance / The butterflies of Serengeti : impact of environmental disturbance on biodiversity / Small mammal diversity and population dynamics in the greater Serengeti ecosystem / Bird diversity of the greater Serengeti ecosystem : spatial patterns of taxonomic and functional richness and turnover / The effect of natural disturbances on the avian community of the Serengeti woodlands / Carnivore communities in the greater Serengeti ecosystem / The Human Ecosystem and Its Response to Disturbance. The plight of the people : understanding the social-ecological context of people living on the western edge of Serengeti National Park / Transitions in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area : the story of land use, human well-being, and conservation / Agricultural expansion and human population trends in the greater Serengeti ecosystem from 1984 to 2003 / Infectious diseases in the Serengeti : what we know and how we know it / Coupled Human-Natural Interactions. Socioecological dynamics and feedbacks in the greater Serengeti ecosystem / Living in the greater Serengeti ecosystem : human-wildlife conflict and coexistence / Consequences of Disturbance for Policy, Management, and Conservation. Bushmeat hunting in the Serengeti ecosystem : an assessment of drivers and impact on migratory and nonmigratory wildlife / Human health in the greater Serengeti ecosystem / Multiple functions and institutions : management complexity in the Serengeti ecosystem / Sustainability of the Serengeti-Mara ecosystem for wildlife and people / Synthesis. The role of research in conservation and the future of Serengeti / The future of conservation : lessons from the Serengeti

Revise the Psalm : work celebrating the writing of Gwendolyn Brooks

Introduction: Of memory and revision / Foreword / Child-free / Barbed wire / I, too, am the mother / The unmother / Dialogue between two women at the clinic / Motherhood / First journey / Daystar / My mother's clothes / Washer woman / Tax deadline / Fixing face / [Untitled] / Milk bath / Horse and carriage on the plaza / A slip into history / My face / blk(s) / The night after you have been fired from your job / A burning lesson / She was my first / Poem for Gwendolyn Brooks on her centennial birthday

Sister Flossie's jam / Recipe / Radio / For the lover who eats my poems ... / To be in love / To be / Knife in the wall / Chalk / When your silence will not save you / Fine art school / Combatives / Stay / Abracadabra / Psalm 23 at 15 / Visitation one / Dog in a dead man's house / Babes / On Spring / Bitter winter / Suicide one / Lovely love / Sweet stalk / Genetic codes / The Samaritan woman / Look behind / Deuce and a quarter / Convenience / Anacostia suite / Sold to the man with the mouth / Kenny's friend / Run Johnny run / Foun(d) poem / Silly stories / Dying of laughter / Sleep smoking / Five belly buttons / Yaakov's jackets / The hammers / Mama Gwendolyn kiss (is) Uncle Ruckus on de forehead / Civility / Tribal differences / Players online dating service / Mr. Oscar Brown Jr. goes to heaven / Looking for Venture Smith / Sonnet for Gordon Parks / Oriki for John Oliver Killens

Remembering Gwendolyn Brooks / Quatrain for Emmett Till/Trayvon Martin/Michael Brown/LaQuan McDonald / Many sons, many mothers / A depraved indifference 2 human life / The short answer / A neighborhood boy / Rite of passag / We real / Roots / News item : police seek African-American man / History of static / East Texas blues / Robert's Hill : San Augustine, Texas / We real / WWW2015 / The tragedies / Skin / Keloid cells / Landscape with chalk-marked silhouette / Everyday horrors / When racism dies / Overheard at tea, near Kensington and DeVeers, London / A feast of whispers / In praise of wisdom / Halloween / Who needs the stars if the full moon loves you? / Prayer for Jordan / The corner / A deaf old lady / Street woman / Black woman in Russia / Artwork gallery ; Recollections / Urban couple / The tenant / Meanwhile, a Lawndale girl burns cornbread / R. Taylor's Project girl / Final frontier / Gwendolyn Brooks stands in the Mecca / The last supper / Second Ave. ceiling / Steel canary / Crime in Bluesville / Eating in the after life / Hotel Hades / Lincoln Cemetery / The blinking apple / & later / Geometry / Cedar / Fun in the backyard / Day 4, somewhere between Athens and Serifos, Greece / June 9, Serifos, Greece / Blackbirding / Seven years

Testifying / Language of the unheard / Jazz June / To the recorder of history / A note on Gwendolyn Brooks / Reading Gwendolyn Brooks / Letter to Gwendolyn Brooks / Nobody knows my name / A haiku for Gwendolyn Brooks / Journaling with Gwendolyn Brooks Kwansaba-style 2016 : a pastiche of poetic reports on her life & works / The weight of the word / Baggage / Smolder / Artist statements. Anecdote / Reflections : experiencing Gwendolyn Brooks / Reflection / Gwendolyn Brooks reminiscence / Being born into Brooks / Description of portrait of Gwendolyn Brooks / My Gwendolyn Brooks experience / Remembrance / Finding my own sunset and thoughts on reading Gwendolyn Brooks / My first contact with Gwendolyn Brook / A slice of prose for Gwendolyn Brooks, poet / To make a thing sing and mean : reflections on Gwendolyn Brooks / Wordweaver (for Gwendolyn Brooks) / A Bluesviile tribute for Gwendolyn Brooks / Brooks biography. We remember Sunday : portrait of the artist as an ancestor / Brooks bibliography. Gwendolyn Brooks : a selected bibliography 1979-2015

Collected poems, 1930-1976 : including 43 new poems

Poems. Selections

This fevers me -- O wild chaos! -- The Bells of a Chinese temple -- Maze -- For a Lamb -- Caravan of Silence -- Four Lakes' Days -- Ode to Silence -- The Return of Odysseus -- 'Where are those High and Haunting Skies' -- Suite in Prison -- The Groundhog -- The Rape of the Cataract -- 1934 -- 'In a Hard Intellectual Light' -- 'My Bones Flew Apart' -- The Transfer -- Request for Offering -- Necessity -- The Scarf of June -- Experience Evoked -- Two Loves -- Burnder -- 'In Prisons of Established Craze' -- The Largess -- 'When Doris Danced' -- 'The Critic with his Pained Eye' -- The Young Hunter -- 'When Goolden Flies upon my Carcasss Come' -- 'Now is the Air made of Chiming Balls' -- The Child -- Let the Tight Lizard on the Wall' -- 'I Went to see Irving Babbitt' -- Recollection of Childhood -- Orchard -- The Soul Long To Return whence it Came -- Grave Pice -- The Humanist -- The Virgin -- 'Man's Greed and Envy are so Great' -- 'The Goal of Intellectual Man -- 'If I could only live at the Pitch that is near Madness' -- 'I Walked Out to the Graveyard to see the Dead' -- A Meditation -- 'The Full of Joy do not Know; they Need not' -- Rumination -- 'Cover Me Over' -- The Recapitulation -- 'Imagining How it would be to be Dead' -- 'I walked over the Grave of Henry James' -- The Ineffable -- 'Mysticism Had Not the Patience to wait for God's Revelation' -- The Dream -- THe Moment of Vision -- Restrospective Forelook -- The Lyric Absolute -- 'I Will Not Dare to ask One Question' -- New Hampshire, February -- Triptych -- Ode to the Chinese Paper Snake -- Burr Oaks -- Dam Neck, Virginia -- The Fury of Aerial Bombardment -- An Airman Considers his Power -- At the End of War -- A Ceremony by the Sea -- World War -- Brotherhood of Men -- Indian Pipe -- 'Go to the Shne that's on a Tree' -- 'Sometimes the Longing for Death -- At Night -- A Love Poem -- God and Man -- The Horse Chestnut Tree -- The Tobacconist of Eighth Street -- Seals, Terns, Time -- The Cancer Cells -- Forms of the Human -- Oedipus -- Fragment of New York, 1929 -- Aesthetics after War -- On Shooting Particles beyond the World -- A Legend of Viable Women -- The Verbalist of Summer -- Concord Cats -- On the Fragility of Mind -- Great Praises -- The Dry Rot -- The Skier and the Mountain -- The Human Being is a Lonely Creature -- The Book of Nature -- Cousin Florence -- Sestina -- 'My Golden and My Fierce Assays' -- Ur Burial -- Seeing is Deceiving -- Analogue of Unity in Multeity -- Sea-Hawk -- Sainte Anne de Beaupre -- Mediterranean Song -- To Evan -- The Day-Bed -- Formative Mastership -- The Hand and the Shadow -- Words -- On a Squirrel Crossing the Road in Autumn -- Centennial for Whitman -- Soul -- Fables of the Moon -- Salem -- The Return -- The Giantess -- The Wisdom of Insecurity -- Sunday in October -- Sumer Landscape -- Only in the Dream -- Nothing but Chan ge -- Thrush Song at Dawn -- The Voyage -- Off Spectable Island -- The Seasons -- The Noble Man -- The Forgotten Rock -- Attitudes -- An Old Fashioned American Business Man -- A Young Greek, Killed in the Wars -- Protagonists -- A Soldier Rejectis his Times Addressing his Contemporaries -- 'Blessed Are the Angels in Heaven -- Villanelle -- Life as Visionary Spirit -- Fortune's Mist -- Yonder -- Autumnal -- The Sacrifice -- Lucubration -- In After Time -- A Testament -- Request -- Love Among the Ruins -- Anima -- The Supreme Authority of the Imagination -- Perception as a Guided Missile -- By the Stream -- What Gives -- The Oak -- In the Garden -- The Lost Children -- A Commitment -- Apple Buds -- Throwing the Apple -- The Garden God -- Light from Above -- Austere Poem -- Hoot Owls -- Tree Swallows -- The Clam Diggers and Diggers of Sea Worms -- A Ship Burning and a Comet all in One Day -- The Hard Structure of the World -- The Parker River -- At the Canoe Club -- Ospreys in Cry -- Half-bent Man -- Spring Mountain Climb -- The Passage -- The Gods of Washington, D.C. -- Equivalence of Gnats and Mice -- Birth and Death -- The Incomparable Light -- Mais l'amour infini me montera dans lame -- On Seeing an Egyptian Mummy in Berlin, 1932 -- The Spider -- Sea-Ruck -- The Hamlet Father -- Four Exposures -- La Crosse at Ninety Miles an Hour -- Loss -- To Auden on His Fiftieth -- To William Carlos Williams -- Nexus -- Examination of Psyche: Thoughts of Home -- The Project -- Matador -- Prometheus -- Old Tom -- The Height of Man -- An Evaluation under a Pine Tree, Lying on Pine Needles -- Kaire -- A New England Bachelor -- A Maine Roustabout -- Sea Burial from the Cruiser Reve -- Flux -- Ruby Daggett -- Hardening into Print -- The Lament of a New England Mother -- The Lost -- Moment of Equilibrium among the Islands -- Am I My Neighbor's Keeper? -- Christmas Tree -- Looking at the Stars -- Dream Journey of the Head and Heart -- Winter Kill -- Later or Sooner -- The Gesture -- Ultimate Song -- Vision -- May Evening -- Ways and Means -- Meditation Two -- The Illusions of Eternity -- The Standards -- The Birth of the Spirit -- Extremity -- 'My brains are slipping in the fields of Eros' -- Refrains -- To Harriet Monroe -- 'Whenever I see beauty I see death' -- Recognition -- Opulence -- Memory -- The Vastness and Indifference of the World -- Hill Dream of Youth, Thirty Years Later -- Why? -- R.G.E. -- To the Field Mice -- The Assassin -- Ball Game -- The Enigma -- THe Haystack -- Santa Claus in Oaxaca -- Looking Head On -- Solace -- Evil -- Marrakech -- Lions Copulating -- The Ides of March -- A Wedding on Cape Rosier -- On Returning to a Lake in Spring -- The Explorer of Main Street -- Sanders Theater -- The Young and the Old -- Old Question -- John Ledyard -- Van Black, an Old Farmer in his Dell -- Froth -- The Swallow Return -- The Wedding -- To Kenya Tribesmen, The Turkana -- Kinaesthesia -- The Anxiety I felt in Guanajuato -- Track -- The Bower -- Despair -- Suicide Note -- Evening Bird Song -- The Secret Heart -- Time Passes -- Broken Wing Theory -- The Fisher Cat -- Reading Room, The New York Public Library -- Meaningless Poem -- Homage to the North -- As If You Had Never Been -- The Breathless -- Stealth and Subleties of Growth -- Emily Dickinson -- Hardy Perennial -- Quarrel with a Cloud -- Gnats on my Paper -- The Truncated Bird -- Man's Type -- Long Term Suffering -- You think they are permanent but they pass -- Hatred of the Old River -- Vermont Idyll -- The Scouring -- The Cage -- The Poet -- Man and Nature -- Old Tree by the Penobscot -- Placation of Reality -- Emblem -- Worldly Failure -- A Man who was Blown Dead by the Wind -- The Hop-Toad -- United 555 -- Light, Time, Dark -- Death in the Mines -- Adam Cast Forth (Borges) -- Redemption -- Undercliff Evening -- Portrait of Rilke -- Sphinxd -- The Groundhog Revisiting -- Big Rock -- American Hakluyt -- Life and Death -- Flow of Thought -- Mind and Nature -- Wild Life and Tamed Life -- Inchiquin Lake, Penobscot Bay -- Face, Ocean -- Three Kis -- Trying to Hold It All Together -- A Way Out -- Incidence of Flight -- Slow Boat Ride -- The Poem as Trajectory -- Snow Cascades -- Coast of Maine -- Usurper -- Vision Through Timothy -- Once More, O ye ...

The experience of literature : a reader with commentaries

Oedipus Rex / The tragedy of King Lear / The wild duck / The three sisters / The doctor's dilemma / Six characters in search of an author : a comedy in the making / Purgatory / Galileo

My kinsman, Major Molineux / Bartleby the scrivener : a story of Wall Street / The grand inquisitor / The death of Ivan Ilych / The treasure / Duchoux / Enemies / The pupil / The secret sharer / The dead / The hunter Gracchus / Tickets, please / The road from Colonus / Disorder and early sorrow / Di Grasso : a tale of Odessa / The sailor-boy's tale / Hills like white elephants / Barn burning / Summer's day / Of this time, of that place / The guest / The magic barrel

Edward / They flee from me / A valediction : forbidding mourning / Lycidas / To his coy mistress / An essay on Man : epistle I / Tyger! Tyger! / Resolution and independence / Kubla Khan or a vision in a dream, a fragment / Don Juan : an episode from canto II / Ode to the west wind / Ode to a nightingale / Beach / Out of the cradle endlessly rocking / The leaden echo and the golden echo / Go tell it--what a message / Sailing to Byzantium / The waste land / Neither out far nor in deep / My father moved through dooms of love / In memory of Sigmund Freud / For the union dead

A lyke-wake dirge / The cherry-tree carol / The three ravens / Sir Patrick Spens / Mary Hamilton / Westron winde, when will thou blow / To mistress Isabel Pennell / To mistress Margaret Hussey / My galley charged with forgetfulness / Forget not yet / Epithalamion / The passionate shepherd to his love / The nymph's reply / As you came from the Holy Land / Full fathom five / Tell me where is fancy bred / O mistress mine! / When that I was and a little tiny boy / Fear no more / Sonnet 18 / Sonnet 29 / Sonnet 30 / Sonnet 33 / Sonnet 55 / Sonnet 73 / Sonnet 107 / Sonnet 129 / Spring / In time of pestilence / Affliction / On my first son / Epitaph on Elizabeth, L.H. / To Penshurst / Song, to Celia / The triumph of Charis / Hymn to Diana / To the memory of / My beloved, the author / Mr. William Shakespeare / The indifferent / The good-morrow / The undertaking / Holy sonnet VII / The funeral / The autumnal

All the flowers of the spring / A dirge / Delight in disorder / To the virgins / To make much of time / Upon Julia's clothes / To Phyllis, to love and live with him / Ceremonies for Candlemas eve / The quip / The collar / The pulley / Song / Dirge / Go, lovely rose / On the morning of Christ's nativity / On Shakespeare / L'Allegro / How soon hath time / When I consider how my light is spent / Why so pale and wan? / A ballad upon a wedding / The constant lover / Wishes to his (supposed) mistress / To Amarantha, that she would dishevele her hair / To Althea, from prison / To Lucasta, going to the wars / The grasshopper / The garden / The mower against gardens / The mower's song / Bermudas / The picture of little T.C. in a prospect of flowers / The pursuit / The retreat / Childhood / The world

To the memory of Mr. Oldham / Upon nothing / A description of a city shower Stella's Birthday (March 13, 1726/27) / On the death of Dr. Robert Levet / Elegy written in a country churchyard / Of Jeoffry, his cat / The ecchoing green / The lamb / The clod and the pebble / A poison tree / Ah, sun-flower / London / Stanzas from Milton / Mary Morison / Address to the Unco Guid, or the rigidly righteous / Auld Lang syne / Robert Bruce's march / To Bannockburn / A red, red rose / A man's a man for a' that / Expostulation and reply / The tables turned / She dwelt among the untrodden ways / There was a boy / Nutting / Composed upon Westminster bridge / The world is too much with us / Surprised by joy / The solitary reaper / Stepping westward / Ode : intimations of immortality from recollections of early childhood / Frost at midnight / Dejection : an ode / Darkness / She walks in beauty / When we two parted / So, we'll go no more a-roving / Hymn to intellectual beauty / Ozymandias / Sonnet : England in 1819 / Tonight / To-- / Chorus from Hellas

On first looking into Chapman's Homer / When I have fears / Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art / La Belle Dame sans Merci / Ode on a Grecian urn / To autumn / Ode on melancholy / Hamatreya / Give all to love / Brahma / The valley of unrest / To Helen / Alone / Ulysses / The lotos-eaters / How sleeps the crimson petal / Come down, 0 maid / Morte d'Arthur / The revenge / The jumblies / My last duchess / Soliloquy of the Spanish cloister / A woman's last word / Childe Roland to the Dark / Tower came / Starting from Paumanok / When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd / Shakespeare / Memorial verses, April 1850 / To Marguerite in returning a volume of the letters of Ortis / The scholar gipsy / Lucifer in starlight / Papa above / There's a certain slant of light / A clock stopped / I taste a liquor never brewed / Because I could not stop for death / I've seen a dying eye / A narrow fellow in the grass / Heavenly father-- take to thee / Twas later when the summer went / Before the beginning of years / When the hounds of spring / The garden of Proserpine / Sapphics / The subalterns / Wives in the Sere / The lacking sense / The darkling thrush / The voice / The five students / Who's in the next room? / Afterwards

Spring and fall / The windhover / Pied beauty / Carrion comfort / Loveliest of trees / Be still, my soul, be still / Danny Deever / Recessional / Byzantium / Leda and the swan / The second coming / A prayer for my daughter / Luke Havergal / Miniver Cheevy / Mr. Flood's party / The listeners / Home burial / Stopping by woods on a snowy evening / Design / Provide, provide / Directive / Anecdote of the jar / Peter Quince at the clavier / Thirteen ways of looking at a blackbird / Soldier, there is a war / Tortoise shout / The elephant is slow to mate / The snake / A pact / Ite / Les Millwin / Come my cantilations / Prayer for his lady's life / Poetry / Elephants / La Figlia Che Piange / Sweeney among the nightingales / Journey of the magi / Animula / Here lies a lady / Bells for John Whiteside's daughter / Blue girls

Ars poetica / The end of the world / You, Andrew Marvell / All in green went my love riding / My girl's tall with hard long eyes / Anyone lived in a pretty how town / I say no world / Warning to children / The climate of thought / To Juan at the winter solstice / Voyages (II) / At Melville's tomb / The Mediterranean / Ode to the Confederate dead / Variation : ode to fear / Bearded oaks / Foreign affairs / For the word is flesh / Historical song of then and now / Modes of belief / Poetry : the art / Musée des Beaux arts / In memory of W.B. Yeats / The shield of Achilles / Frau Bauman, Frau Schmidt, and Frau Schwartze / The far field / Light listened / In the naked bed, in Plato's cave / The heavy bear / The force that through the green fuse drives the flower / Fern hill / Do not go gentle into that good night / In my craft or sullen art / Conversation / Dream song : 14 (life, friends, is boring) / Dream song : 18 (a strut for Roethke) / The Quaker graveyard in Nantucket / Mr. Edwards and the spider / The fat man in the mirror / The fiend / A supermarket in California / To Aunt Rose

The ecopoetry anthology

From Song of Myself / Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking / Crossing Brooklyn Ferry / #116/328 / #126/348 / #184/465 / #209/520 / #498/1400 / #537/1593 / An Old Man's Winter Night / The Need of Being Versed in Country Things / Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening / Spring Pools / Design / The Most of It / Directive / Sunday Morning / Anecdote of the Jar / The Snow Man / The River of Rivers in Connecticut / Spring and All / The Sea-Elephant / Between Walls / Raleigh Was Right / The High Bridge above the Tagus River at Toledo / The Tree / Salutation / Ancient Music / from Canto LXXXI / Oread / Sea Iris / The Pool / Shine, Perishing Republic / Hurt Hawks / The Purse-Seine / Carmel Point / The Deer Lay Down Their Bones / The Fish / A Grave / The Paper Nautilus / from The Waste Land / I. The Burial of the Dead / III. The Fire Sermon / Me up at does / Reapers / November Cotton Flower / Metropolitan Nightmare / Repose of Rivers / from The Bridge / To Brooklyn Bridge / The River / Riverbank Blues / The Negro Speaks of Rivers / Daybreak in Alabama / (untitled) / from Paean to Place / Toward an Organic Philosophy / Lute Music / Lyell's Hypothesis Again / Andrée Rexroth / from North American Sequence / Meditation at Oyster River / Eclogue / California / Psalm / The Occurrences / The Kingfishers / West Gloucester / At the Fishhouses / The Moose / San Joaquin / Clouds / The Night-Blooming Cereus / from The Book of the Dead / Alloy / The Dam / Traveling through the Dark / At the Bomb Testing Site / Often I Am Permitted to Return to a Meadow / Poetry, a Natural Thing / A Little Language / Santa Fe Trail / The Heaven of Animals / O Taste and See / Souvenir d'amitié / The Past III / Haze / Corsons Inlet / Gravelly Run / from Garbage / Snowshoe Hare / Gone feral: minor gestures / Thing / Natural History / Dusk / Into the Dusk-Charged Air / For John Clare / Alcove / River of the Canoefish / As Children Know

The Place Poem: Sparrow's Point / Living Where They Raised Me / Birdsong from My Patio / The Big Picture / Arcadian / Wawaskwanmiinan / Unit of Measure / The Book of the Dead Man (Fungi) / Aspens / After the End After the Beginning / Horses / Water / The Hidden Singer / The Peace of Wild Things / To the Unseeable Animal / The Star Field / from A Context of a Wave / April / 21st Century Lecture / The Dead Seal / Birdsong, face it, some male machine / It includes the butterfly and the rat, the shit / The Rapture of Bees / Multi-Use Area / Legacy / from Mermaid's Purse / Outside Fairbanks / Down from the Houses of Magic / A Field of Finches without Sight Still Singing / Freeway 280 / Emplumada / Genealogy / Out with the Monarch, the Vole, and the Toad / The earth is a living thing / The beginning of the end of the world / Grief / Defending my tongue / The killing of the trees / Green Shade / Ruddy Duck / Ecology / m(other) tongue / from Canto for the Birds / Still: Environment / The Rain in Maine / Genocide, Again / Specimens Collected at the Clear Cut / Damascus / House Sparrow at Skara Brae / For I Will Consider the Overlooked Dragonfly / On the rocks / The Blue / Pastoral and Gigue / Praxilla's Silliness / I Like Green Things / September 21 65 / June 17 68 / May 3 71 / [trees green the quiet sun] / The Strange People / The Red Sleep of Beasts / Maize / West Texas / Should the Fox Come Again to My Cabin in the Snow / Then / Watching the Oregon Whale / Elegy / from Dream Cabinet / Out of the Field / Plume / Green Run / The Museum of Stones / Morning on the Island / The St. Louis Zoo

Árbol / Historia / An Intermission / Three Sonnets / They Haven't Heard the West Is Over / Cartography / Field Guide to Southern Virginia / from Of Sum / from Giscome Road / Human Memory Is Organic / Scilla / Witchgrass / Rattlesnakes Hammered on the Wall / Millennial Spring / Evolution / Sea Change / The Cranes / Goldeye, Vole / If the Owl Calls Again / Digging / from She Had Some Horses / My House Is the Red Earth / Eagle Poem / The Sandhill Cranes / Prayer for the Everglades / Palo Alto: The Marshes / Ezra Pound's Proposition / Exit, Pursued by a Sierra Meadow / State of the Planet / Submersible / After My Daughter's Birth, a Late Night Self-Portrait with a Running Mare / Dust: Dad's Days / The Swamp / Blackbird Spring / Practical Water / Request to the Berkeley City Council Concerning Strawberry Creek / A Violet in the Crucible / To Spirits of Fire after Harvest / The Supple Deer / Three Foxes by the Edge of the Field at Twilight / Articulation: An Assay / Optimism / Inflection Finally Ungraspable by Grammar / Speed and Perfection / For the Lobaria, Usnea, Witches' Hair, Map Lichen, Beard Lichen, Ground Lichen, Shield Lichen / The Last Crows Whose Cries Are Audible Here / Romantic Moment / Wild / Cove / Turtle Watchers / Moving the Woodpile / Fluff / Skykomish River Running / Ziggurats there aren't here, my Sweethearts / [earthearthearth] / from Spring / 4 Emanations / 5 April 13th / from Summer / What the Earth Told Me / 'Unless the Humming of a Gnat Is as the Music of the Spheres / The Assault on the Fields / Long Drop to Black Water / from Dream of the End / The Leaving / Blessed Is the Field / Windfall / The Bear / Daybreak / Burning the Brush Pile / The Millpond / Blackberries / Dream Animal / Blessing the Animals / Flying at Night / Grasshoppers / The Whole Hog / The Wellfleet Whale / The Orgasms of Organisms / Life Is Beautiful

Hummingbird / Law Office / Tooth of the Lion / They Feed They Lion / Our Valley / The Oldest Living Thing in L.A. / Anastasia & Sandman / What My Child Learns of the Sea / Migration South / Offering / From Tobacco Mosaic. Stripping Room ; Lexicon ; Drought ; The Sharecroppers / The Origin / Biogeography / Event One / For a Coming Extinction / Vixen / Nocturne / Recognitions / The Laughing Thrush / Eating a Mountain / Bartram's Trail / Connemara Autumn / Driving to Fort Bragg / Grate, Table Grace / From Muse and Drudge / Negotiations with a Volcano / The Turtle Shrine near Chittagong / She Sang to Me Once at a Place for Hunting Owls : Utkiavik / Tulunigraq : Something Like a Raven / Alligator Poem / Wild Geese / The Lilies Break Open over the Dark Water / Love III / Dearest Reader / Notes for Echo Lake 6 / Notes for Echo Lake 9 / The Natural World / Bulletin from Somewhere up the Creek / The Crows Start Demanding Royalties / Shrike Tree / No Bite / Republic / Hand Over Fist / Dark Night of the Hermit / Justice / Monsoon Eclogue / Aesculapius Unbound / Election Year / My Mojave / "Birds Small Enough" / From Twenty-One Love Poems / Power / From The Spirit of Place / What Kind of Times Are These / Beetles and Frogs / Uncovered Ants

Be Careful / Wave / To See the Earth before the End of the World / City Eclogue : Words for It / The Distant Stars as Paparazzi / Geocentric / Rolling Naked in the Morning Dew / Dear Jeffers / Song of Returnings / The Bromeliad / Nature / I've Always Despised the Wetlands / To the Desert / From All with Ocean Views / Ginen Aerial Roots / From Preterrain / From Tidelands / Ambition : Cow & Microphone / First Verse / Runoff / A Dog's Poetry / Fais Do-Do / The Open Secret of the Sea / A Good Fish / Darwin's Eyes / Some Kind of Osiris / Notes for the Early Journey / Atlantis Made Easy / Near the Bravo 20 Bombing Range / Sighted / Caged Bird / Birds of the Holy Lands / Carnegia Gigantea Monadnock / 5 P.M., Tuesday, August 23, 2005 / Man on the TV Say / Won't Be But a Minute / 8 A.M., Sunday, August 28, 2005 / Looking for Bodies / From Hunting : This Poem Is For Bear / From Burning. The Text ; The Myth / Piute Creek / Milton by Firelight / Riprap / For Nothing / Burning the Small Dead / Wave / For the Children

From Gentle Now, Don't Add to Heartache / Cow Worship / One Animal's Life / Four Questions Regarding the Dreams of Animals / The Forest / Midnight Oil / An Entangled Bank / First Lessons in Beekeeping / The Angle of Reflection Equals the Angle of Incidence / From Ins and Outs of the Forest Rivers / No Golden Fish Were Harmed in the Making of This Poem / From Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge / Refrain / City Animals / Snow Goose Migration at Tule Lake / The Badlands Said / The River at Wolf / Rain / Chameleon / Cow / Forest Orison / Canning Memories / Ox Herding Lesson / Man in Stream / The Stars / Bamboo / The Petroglyphs at Puakō / Tar / Blackbird / Canal / Not Soul / Johnny Appleseed Contemplates Heaven / Song of the Gourd / From Deepstep Come Shining / From One Big Self / Hardin County / Rural Route / Snow / After Reading Tu Fu, I Go Outside to the Dwarf Orchard / From Chernobyl Eclogue / Ravens at Deer Creek / Anything the River Gives / Why Do the Crickets Sing?

The complete poems of Emily Jane Brontë

Poems. (Hatfield)

Cold, clear, and blue, the morning heaven -- Will the day be bright or cloudy -- Tell me, tell me, smiling child -- The inspiring music's thrilling sound -- High waving heather, 'neath stormy blasts bending -- Woods, you need not frown on me -- Redbreast, early in the morning -- Through the hours of yesternight -- A.G.A. There shines the moon, at noon of night -- All day I've toiled, but not with pain -- I am the only being whose doom -- The night of storms has passed -- Woe for the day: Regina's pride -- I saw thee, child, one summer's day -- O God of heaven! the dream of horror -- A.G.A. to A.E. Lord of Elbe, on Elve hill -- Song A.G.A. Lord of Elbe, on Elbe hill -- Lord of Elbe, on Elbe hill: The battle had passed from the height -- How golden bright from earth and heaven -- Not a vapour had stained the breezeless blue -- Only some spires of bright green grass -- The sun has set, and the long grass now -- Lady, in your palace hall -- And first an hour of mournful musing -- Wind, sink to rest in the heather -- Long neglect has worn away -- Awaking morning laughs from heaven -- Alone I sat, the summer day -- The organ swells, the trumpets sound -- A sudden chasm of ghastly light -- 'Tis evening now, the sun descends -- The old church tower and garden wall -- Lines. Far away is the land of rest -- Now trust a heart that trusts in you -- A.G.A. sleep brings no joy to me -- Strong I stand, though I have borne -- The night is darkening round me -- I'll come when thou art saddest -- I would have touched the heavenly key -- To a wreath of snow, by A.G. Almeda, O transient voyager of heaven -- Song by Julius Angora, awake, awake, how loud the stormy morning -- J.A. Song, awake, awake how loud the stormy morning -- Lines -- I die but when the grave shall press -- O mother, I am not regretting -- H.G. weaned from life and torn away -- I'm happiest when most away -- All hushed and still within the house -- Ierne's eyes were glazed and dim -- But the hearts that once adored me -- Deep, deep down in the silent grave -- Here, with my knee upon thy stone -- O come again, what chains withhold -- Was it with the fields of green -- How loud the storm sounds round the hall -- What use is it to slumber here -- O evening, why is thy light so sad -- It's over now: I've known it all -- The wide cathedral aisles are lone -- O hinder me by no delay -- Darkness was overtraced on every face -- Harp of wild and dream-like strain -- A.G.A. why do I hate that lone green dell -- A.G.A. to A.S. o wander not so far away -- Lines by A.G.A. to A.S. o wander not so far away -- Song to A.A. This shall by thy lullaby -- Song, this shall be thy lullaby -- Gleneden's dream, tell me, watcher, is it winter -- None of my kindred now can tell -- 'Twas one of those dark, cloudy days -- Lonely at her window sitting -- There are two trees in a lonely field -- What is that smoke that ever still -- Still as she looked the iron clouds -- Away, away, resign me now -- It will not shine again -- None but one beheld him dying -- Coldly, bleakly, drearily -- Old hall of Elbe, ruined, lonely now -- Douglas's ride, well, narrower draw the circle roundg -- Song, what rider up Gobelrin's glen -- A.G.A. for him who struck thy foreign string -- The lady to her guitar, for him who struck thy foreign string -- Arthr ex to -- in dungeons dark I cannot sing -- The evening sun was sinking down -- Fall, leaves, fall -- die, flowers, away -- Song by Julius Brenzaida to G.S. Geraldine, the moon is shining -- Song by J. Brenzaida to G.S., I knew not 'twas so dire a crime -- Last words, I knew 'twas so dire a crime -- A.G.A. where were ye all, and where wert thou -- I paused on the threshold, I turned to the sky -- O come with me, thus ran the song -- F. De. Samara to A.G.A., light up thy halls, 'tis closing day -- O dream, where art thou now -- When days of beauty deck the earth -- Still beside that dreary water -- There swept adown that dreary glen -- The starry night shall tidings bring -- The starry night shall comfort bring -- Loud without the wind was roaring -- Loud without the wind was roaring -- Stanzas, loud without the wind was roaring -- A little while, a little while -- Stanzas, a little while, a little while -- How still, how happy, those are words -- The blue bell is the sweetest flower

The bluebell, the bluebell is the sweetest flower -- The night was dark, yet winter breathed -- A.G.A. what winter floods, what showers of spring -- By R. Gleneden, from our evening fireside now -- Lines by R.G., from our evening fireside now -- Song, King Julius left the south country -- Lines, the soft unclouded blue of air -- A.G.A. to the bluebell, sacred watcher, wave thy bells -- To a bluebell by A.G.A., sacred watcher, wave thy bells -- May flowers are opening -- Lines by Claudia, I did not sleep, 'twas noon of day -- I know not how it falls on me -- Written on returning to the P. of I. on the 10th of January, 1827, The busy day has hurried by -- The hours of day have glided by -- The busy day has glided by -- Month after month, year after year -- She dried her tears, and they did smile -- And now the house-dog stretched once more -- A farewell to Alexandria, I've seen this dell in July's shine -- Come hither, child -- who gifted thee -- To A.G.A. thou standest in the greenwood now -- I'm standing in the forest now -- I gazed upon the cloudless moon -- Shed no tears o'er that tomb -- A.A.A. sleep not, dream not, this bright day -- Mild the mist upon the hill -- How long will you remain, the midnight hour -- It is not pride, it is not shame -- Fair sinks the summer evening now -- Alcona, in its changing mood -- Song, o between distress and pleasure -- There was a time when my cheek burned -- The wind, I hear it sighing -- Love and friendship, love is like the wild rose-briar -- Love and friendship, love is like the wild rose-briar -- There should be no despair for you -- Sympathy, there should be no despair for you -- Well, some may hate, and some may scorn -- Stanzas to -- well, some may hate, and some may scorn -- The wind was rough which tore -- His land may burst the galling chain -- Start not, upon the minster wall -- That wind, I used to hear it swelling -- I've been wandering in the greenwoods -- That dreary lake, that midnight sky -- Heaven's glory shone where he was laid -- Upon her soothing breast -- I gazed within thine earnest eyes -- F. De Samara, written in the gaaldine prison caves to A.G.A., thy sun is near meridian height -- Far, far away is mirth withdrawn -- It is too late to call thee now -- I'll not weep that thou art going to leave me -- Stanzas, I'll not weep that thou art going to leave me -- A.G.A. to A.S., at such a time, in such a spot -- If grief for grief can touch thee -- 'Tis moonlight, summer moonlight -- The night-wind, in summer's mellow midnight -- The night-wind, in summer's mellow midnight -- R. Gleneden, companions all day long we've stood -- There let thy bleeding branch atone -- The death of A.G.A., were they shepherds, who sat all day -- And like myself lone, wholly lone -- M.A.A. methinks this heart should rest awhile -- Riches I hold in light esteem -- The old stoic, riches I hold in light esteem -- Shall earth no more inspire thee -- Aye, there it is, It wakes to-night -- Ay-there it is, it wakes to-night -- I see around me tombstones grey -- Geraldine, 'twas night, her comrades gathered all -- Rosina, weeks of wild delirium past -- A.S. to G.S., I do not weep, I would not weep -- Encouragement, I do not weep, I would not weep -- H.A. and A.S. in the same place, when nature wore -- Written in Aspin Castle, how do I love on summer nights -- The evening passes fast away -- Self interrogation, the evening passes fast away -- On the fall of Zalona, all blue and bright, in glorious light -- How clear she shines, how clear she shines, how quietly -- How clear she shines, how clear she shines, how quietly -- To A.S. 1830, where beams the sun the brightest -- E.G. to M.R., thy guardians are asleep -- It was night, and on the mountains -- Had there been falsehood in my breast -- Yes, holy be thy resting place -- In the earth, the earth, thou shalt be laid -- Warning and reply, in the earth, the earth, thou shalt be laid -- Rodric Lesley, 1830, lie down and rest, the fight is done -- Hope, hope was but a timid friend -- Hope, hope was but a timid friend -- M.G. for the U.S., 'twas yesterday, at early dawn -- A.S. castle wood, the day is done, the winter sun -- My comforter, well hast thou spoken, and yet not taught -- My comforter, well hast thou spoken, and yet not taught -- A.G.A. to A.S., this summer wind, with thee and me

A day dream, on a sunny brae alone I lay -- A day dream, on a sunny brae alone I lay -- E.W. to A.G.A., how few, of all the hearts that loved -- The wanderer from the fold, how few of all the hearts that loved -- Come, walk with me -- The linnet in the rocky dells -- Song, the linnet in the rocky dells -- To imagination, when weary with the long day's care -- To imagination, when weary with the long day's care -- D.G.C. to J.A., come, the wind may never again -- O thy bright eyes must answer now -- Plead for me, oh, thy bright eyes must answer now -- I.M. to I.G. the winter wind is loud and wild -- Faith and despondency, the winter wind is loud and wild -- J.B., Sept, 1825, from a dungeon wall in the southern college, "listen, when your hair, like mine" -- The elder's rebuke, listen, when your hair, like mine -- M. Douglas to E.R. Gleneden, the moon is full this winter night -- Honour's Martyr. The moon is full this winter night -- A.G.A., Sept. 1826, From A.D.W. in the N.C., o day, he cannot die -- A death-scene, o day, he cannot die -- Enough of thought, philosopher -- The philosopher, enough of thought, philosopher -- R. Alcona to J. Brenzaida, cold in the earth and the deep snow piled above thee -- Remembrance, cold in the earth, and the deep snow piled above thee -- Death, that struck when I was most confiding -- Death, death, that struck when I was most confiding -- Ah, why, because the dazzling sun -- Stars, ah, why, because the dazzling sun -- A thousand sounds of happiness -- A.E. to R.C. heavy hangs the raindrop -- Child of delight, with sunbright hair -- The two children, heavy hangs the raindrop -- Child of delight with sun-bright hair -- How beautiful the earth is still -- Anticipation, how beautiful the earth is still -- M.A. written on the dungeon wall, N.C., I know that tonight the wind is sighing -- Julian M. and A.G. Rochelle, silent is the house, all are laid asleep -- The prisoner, a fragment, in the dungeon crypts idly did I stray -- The visionary, silent is the house, all are laid asleep -- No coward soul is mine -- No coward soul is mine -- Why ask to know the date, the clime -- Why ask to know what date, what clime -- Not many years but long enough to see / Stanzas, often rebuked, yet always back returning.

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

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.