Norman Dubie has one of the most radical imaginations in American letters. At a glance, it might seem there are several poets represented in this collection. It's a fitting characteristic for a writer whose poems include homages to great storytellers like Chekhov, Ingmar Bergman, and Thomas Hardy. In pursuit of the well-told story, or illuminating the life of a common laborer or legendary thinker, Dubie's love of history is ever-present, although he often enough creates histories of his own. As critic David Young put it: "We know that Dubie is lying, though we are never sure how much, and instead of resenting the lying we like it, relearning the lesson about what poetry really is." Book jacket.

The Friary at Blossom, Prologue & Instructions	p. 3
Poems 1967-1990
Popham of the New Song	p. 7
In the Dead of the Night	p. 17
For Randall Jarrell, 1914-1965	p. 18
Indian Summer	p. 19
The Hour	p. 27
A Village Priest	p. 28
Descent into the Hours of the Peregrine	p. 30
The Pennacesse Leper Colony for Women, Cape Cod: 1922	p. 31
Pastoral	p. 33
The Obscure	p. 34
About Infinity	p. 36
Anima Poeta: A Christmas Entry for the Suicide, Mayakovsky	p. 37
Monologue of Two Moons, Nudes with Crests: 1938	p. 39
Elegy Asking That It Be the Last	p. 41
Nineteen Forty	p. 42
February: The Boy Brueghel	p. 43
The Czar's Last Christmas Letter: A Barn in the Urals	p. 45
These Untitled Little Verses in Which, at Dawn, Two Obscure Dutch Peasants Struggled with an Auburn Horse	p. 48
Her Monologue of Dark Crepe with Edges of Light	p. 50
The Wedding Party	p. 53
The Immoralist	p. 55
Sun and Moon Flowers: Paul Klee, 1879-1940	p. 56
Ibis	p. 58
The Trees of Madame Blavatsky	p. 62
The Moths	p. 63
Elegies for the Ocher Deer on the Walls at Lascaux	p. 69
Ghost	p. 81
The City of the Olesha Fruit	p. 83
The Seagull	p. 87
A Widow Speaks to the Auroras of a December Night	p. 90
The Hours	p. 92
After Three Photographs of Brassai	p. 94
The Dun Cow and the Hag	p. 96
Elegy to the Sioux	p. 98
A Grandfather's Last Letter	p. 101
The Ganges	p. 104
Elegy to the Pulley of Superior Oblique	p. 105
Thomas Hardy	p. 107
Grand Illusion	p. 108
You	p. 113
Elizabeth's War with the Christmas Bear	p. 114
Aubade of the Singer and Saboteur, Marie Triste	p. 116
The Fox Who Watched for the Midnight Sun	p. 120
Comes Winter, the Sea Hunting	p. 122
Double Sphere, Cloven Sphere	p. 126
The Composer's Winter Dream	p. 128
The Night Before Thanksgiving	p. 132
Ode to the Spectral Thief, Alpha	p. 133
The Parallax Monograph for Rodin	p. 136
The World Isn't a Wedding of the Artists of Yesterday	p. 139
The Scrivener's Roses	p. 141
The Circus Ringmaster's Apology to God	p. 146
Coleridge Crossing the Plain of Jars	p. 148
Principia Mathematica: Einstein's Exile in an Old Dutch Winter	p. 150
Lord Myth	p. 153
Not the Cuckold's Dream	p. 155
After Spring Snow, What They Saw	p. 157
The Everlastings	p. 159
An Old Woman's Vision	p. 162
Several Measures for the Little Lost	p. 164
Grandmother	p. 166
Pictures at an Exhibition	p. 167
To a Young Woman Dying at Weir	p. 170
Penelope	p. 171
Chemin de Fer	p. 172
Hummingbirds	p. 173
Elsinore in the Late Ancient Autumn	p. 174
The Open Happens in the Midst of Beings	p. 177
At Midsummer	p. 179
Parish	p. 180
Revelations	p. 182
Elegy for Wright & Hugo	p. 184
New England, Springtime	p. 186
The Elegy for Integral Domains	p. 188
Arkhangel'sk	p. 190
Nine Black Poppies for Chac	p. 191
The Widow of the Beast of Ingolstadt	p. 193
Meister Eckhart	p. 194
Dream	p. 197
The Diamond Persona	p. 198
La Pampa	p. 200
The Funeral	p. 201
Sanctuary	p. 202
The Duchesse's Red Shoes	p. 204
Danse Macabre	p. 208
New England, Autumn	p. 209
Through a Glass Darkly	p. 210
The Trolley from Xochimilco	p. 212
The Huts at Esquimaux	p. 215
Oration: Half-Moon in Vermont	p. 217
An Annual of the Dark Physics	p. 219
The Lion Grotto	p. 220
The Train	p. 222
Lamentations	p. 224
Old Night and Sleep	p. 226
Ars Poetica	p. 227
Baptismal	p. 229
Poem	p. 230
Trakl	p. 231
Jeremiad	p. 233
Groom Falconer	p. 235
Accident	p. 237
Fever	p. 238
Of Politics, & Art	p. 239
The Apocrypha of Jacques Derrida	p. 241
The Death of the Race Car Driver	p. 243
The Fish	p. 244
Buffalo Clouds over the Maestro Hoon	p. 245
An American Scene	p. 247
Northwind Escarpment	p. 249
New Age at Airport Mesa	p. 250
Shipwreck	p. 252
Safe Conduct	p. 254
The Saints of Negativity	p. 255
The Desert Deportation of 1915	p. 257
Near the Bridge of Saint-Cloud	p. 258
Amen	p. 260
Radio Sky	p. 261
Coyote Creek	p. 263
Thomas Merton and the Winter Marsh	p. 265
Anagram Born of Madness at Czernowitz, 23 November 1920	p. 266
Tomb Pond	p. 268
A True Story of God	p. 269
Revelation 20:11-15	p. 270
A Depth of Field	p. 271
Looking up from Two Renaissance Paintings to the Massacre at Tiananmen Square	p. 272
Confession	p. 273
The Diatribe of the Kite	p. 274
The Evening of the Pyramids	p. 276
A Dream of Three Sisters	p. 278
Homage to Philip K. Dick	p. 280
Inside the City Walls	p. 282
The Bus Stopped in Fields of Misdemeanor	p. 283
Two Women on the Potomac Parkway	p. 284
Psalm XXIII	p. 286
A Renunciation of the Desert Primrose	p. 288
A Blue Hog	p. 289
Margaret's Speech	p. 290
Bellevue Exchange	p. 292
Simple Philo of Alexandria	p. 293
November 23, 1989	p. 295
In the Time of False Messiahs	p. 296
A Physical Moon Beyond Paterson	p. 297
Poems 1991-2001
The Mercy Seat	p. 301
Elegy for My Brother	p. 303
At the Death of a Mongolian Peasant	p. 305
A Skeleton for Mr. Paul in Paradise	p. 307
A Fifteenth-Century Zen Master	p. 309
The Caste Wife Speaks to the Enigmatic Parabolas	p. 310
Ghosts on the Northern Land of Ur	p. 312
After Sky X	p. 316
The Photographer's Annual	p. 317
"Gently Bent to Ease Us"	p. 330
Poem for My Friend, Clare. Or, With White Stupas We Remember Buddha	p. 332
Bells in the Endtime of Gyurmey Tsultrim	p. 334
The Clouds of Magellan (Aphorisms of Mr. Canon Aspirin)	p. 337
A Genesis Text for Larry Levis, Who Died Alone	p. 374
The Amulet	p. 376
"Somebody'll Hav' to Shoot Ya Down"	p. 377
For Milarepa, in Ruse, on Rice Paper	p. 379
On the Chinese Abduction of Tibet's Child Panchen Lama	p. 381
The Shadows at Boxford	p. 383
The Reader of the Sentences	p. 385
Last Poem, Snow Tree	p. 398
About the Author	p. 401
Index of Titles	p. 403
Index of First Lines	p. 406
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