Spanning more than 30 years of writing, this poetry collection provides a wide selection of work by a prize-winning American poet. It traces the development of a career grounded in the Black Mountain and New York schools of American poetry, and extends into the more recent developments of "Language writing" and post avant-garde experimental poetry.

Stephen Rodefer is the author of several volumes of poetry, prose, plays, and translations, including The Age in its Cage and Four Lectures, winner of the San Francisco State University Poetry Center’s Annual Book Award.

Double You: The Wriring of Stephen Rodefer
from Four Lectures
Preface
Pretext
Codex
from Lies of the Artists
Artist's Life
Villon
Hart Crane
Sappho
Picasso
Corazon de Melon
A Day in the Country
Hotel des Artistes
Is Taylor Mead Home?
Interview with Robert Creeley
for Shocks
Chicago
Not An Easy Appointmet
I Make Out Henry Moore
from One or Two Love Poems from the White World
On the Line
Blue Angel
Let Us Now # 5
Pastorale
After Lucretius
Ode on Easter Morning Riding Westward
Asinine
New Mexico Lunch
Sweet Uses
Commotion
The Electrified World
Did Cave Women Come
In the Nursing School Auditorium
She Cine
Poem Called the Beauty of Park Benches
Old Times Now
Erosie
See the Perfect Stanza Beginning Tarzan
Your Veins Are Using Up the Redness of the World
from Villon, by Jean Calais
Le Noel, morte saison
De ce je me puis revenchier
Bien est verte
Ma nominacion de l'universite
De povrete
Ou tout vif aller es cieulx
Poem from Death Row: Freres hurnains qui apres nous vivez
Dictes moy: Ballad to Lost and Jaded Time
Se celle
Car elle sans moy
En ce bordeau ou tenons nostre estat
A filletes monstrans tetins
Cy gist
"J'en appelles"
Icy se clost le testament
from The Bell Clerk 's Tears Keep Flowing
Serving Time
Dante in the Limpid Cloud
Romance and Desuetude
D(ear) J(esse)
Felix Navidad
Poetry and Sleep
Ode on Revolution and Fertility
Show a Little Emotion
Nosotros
Bucolic Aire
Mientras Tomo una Taza de Cafe
Ode to the End
Nerves of Dolor and Carnage
Love Thirty
Stormy Weather
Poem (Sometimes I forget you don't love me anymore)
Poem (When the dirt)
B
Friend of the Hopi
from Emergency Measures
Chaplinesque
Collateral Damage
Adamant Dote
The Heavenly Bodies That Go By
Flaky Material Like Talc
Imitation W
George Eliot in Oakland
Suicide: An Ode
Islets of Langerhans
Identified Asylum
Oppening
Dancing Bar in Baden-Baden
Slipping Glimpser
Poem Beginning with a Line by Carla
Drove of Stallions
Time Loves a Hero
The Accoucheur Comes
Numberless Shadows
Closure
Hungary
Eats Lake
Drowsy Strelitz
Oriflamme Day (with Benjamin Friedlander)
from Passing Duration
Enclosure of Elk
Inscription
Stray Wood
Hunting
Riches
Endscape
A & C: An Idyll in One Act
Daydreams of Frascati (with drawings by Chip Sullivan)
from Writing Out of Character
Another Wedding Day
Fleur du Val
from Left Under a Cloud
Beauty's Solitary Sober
Anemic Cinema
La Nuit Fattuski
Brief to Butterick
March Ample Life
To a Reader
Child of Faust
In Memory of Ted Berrigan
Harkening Still
Spurwhang Filch
Wittgenstein's See
And Reawakernent
Titular
To the Empress
Arabesque at Bar
Who I Am
The Day Lady Died
Indent
Answer to Doctor Agathon
Stewed and Fraught with Birds
from Erasers
Beating Erasers
from Mon Canard
from Fever Flowers: Les fleurs du val
To Any Reader
Healthy Diction Being Benediction
Albatross
Elevator
Adulterers
from How to Fall Off the Pony in New York
Lang gaz verlangen
Coughing Laughter Before Yawning Death
The Law We Love Is Erotic Memory
Sylvie et Cie Sylvie
Sleeping on the Window like a Duck
Drinking Amongst the Wafering Drinkers
Looking for the Key Ajar in My Kentucky Home
Blue Loss
Index of Titles
Index of First Lines
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