The Clearing

by Keplinger, David

• ISBN13: 9781930974517
• ISBN10: 1930974515
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-04-30
• Publisher: New Issues Poetry & Prose

Table of Contents

View from Outside	5	(4)
I.
Waking on the Pribor Train, Near Freud's Birthplace	9	(1)
Death Mask of John Keats	10	(1)
Correspondences	11	(3)
Elegy for the Precious Time Before Dinner	14	(1)
Instructions for the Lost	15	(1)
The Sun	16	(1)
Birth Mask	17	(1)
The Birth of Tragedy	18	(1)
Breast Exam	19	(1)
Portrait of a Woman	20	(1)
Persistence	21	(1)
Clear Seeing	22	(1)
Pig Slaughter	23	(1)
For William Blake. At Christmastime.	24	(1)
Cortez Arrives at San Juan de Ulloa	25	(1)
Sleep	26	(1)
The Only Story	27	(1)
Received Legends	28	(1)
Barber Shop: Rue de Rivoli	29	(1)
Clocks Kept Upside Down to Stay Awake	30	(1)
Icarus, After Matisse	31	(2)
Towards a Reconciliation with Disorder	33	(4)
II.
Basic Training	37	(2)
Classical Landscape	39	(1)
North	40	(1)
Recanting on His Deathbed, Darwin Remembers the Island of Chiloe	41	(2)
The Birth of Comedy	43	(1)
Krasna, Recollected	44	(1)
Three Visions of the Peril of Art	45	(1)
Late Realism	46	(1)
Robert Frost	47	(1)
The Twins Conjoined at the Head Receive Holy Communion at Corpus Christi Church	48	(1)
Goodman Brown in Decrepitude	49	(1)
Side Work	50	(1)
Mummified Roman Soldier in the Egyptian Exhibit	51	(1)
Lines for the Early Surrender of John Donne's Life	52	(1)
The Conditions	53	(1)
Resolve	54	(1)
Philadelphia, 1976	55	(1)
Towards a Reconciliation with Order	56	(5)
III.
Justice	61	(1)
The Joke	62	(1)
The Sea	63	(1)
Further Entries from the Notebook of Anton Chekhov	64	(9)
"Departure's Particular Handkerchief"	73	(1)
Attractions	74	(2)
The Birth of Melodrama	76	(1)
Max Jacob at Abbey St. Benoit-sur-Loire	77	(1)
Without	78	(1)
Our Secret Icarus Is	79	(1)
Lorca's Passport	80	(1)
Mother, Father	81	(1)
View from Inside	82	(3)
Notes	85