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From The Apple That Astonished Paris (1988) | |
Another Reason Why I Don't Keep a Gun in the House | p. 3 |
Walking Across the Atlantic | p. 4 |
Plight of the Troubadour | p. 5 |
The Lesson | p. 6 |
Winter Syntax | p. 7 |
Advice to Writers | p. 8 |
The Rival Poet | p. 9 |
Insomnia | p. 10 |
Earthling | p. 11 |
Books | p. 12 |
Bar Time | p. 14 |
My Number | p. 15 |
Introduction to Poetry | p. 16 |
The Brooklyn Museum of Art | p. 17 |
Schoolsville | p. 18 |
From Questions About Angels (1991) | |
American Sonnet | p. 23 |
Questions About Angels | p. 24 |
A History of Weather | p. 26 |
The Death of Allegory | p. 27 |
Forgetfulness | p. 29 |
Candle Hat | p. 30 |
Student of Clouds | p. 32 |
The Dead | p. 33 |
The Man in the Moon | p. 34 |
The Wires of the Night | p. 35 |
Vade Mecum | p. 36 |
Not Touching | p. 37 |
The History Teacher | p. 38 |
First Reader | p. 39 |
Purity | p. 40 |
Nostalgia | p. 42 |
From The Art of Drowning (1995) | |
Consolation | p. 47 |
Osso Buco | p. 49 |
Directions | p. 51 |
Sunday Morning with the Sensational Nightingales | p. 53 |
The Best Cigarette | p. 55 |
Days | p. 57 |
Tuesday, June 4, 1991 | p. 58 |
Canada | p. 61 |
On Turning Ten | p. 63 |
Workshop | p. 65 |
My Heart | p. 68 |
Budapest | p. 69 |
Dancing Toward Bethlehem | p. 70 |
Monday Morning | p. 71 |
Center | p. 72 |
Design | p. 73 |
Pinup | p. 74 |
Piano Lessons | p. 76 |
The Blues | p. 78 |
Man in Space | p. 79 |
Nightclub | p. 80 |
Some Final Words | p. 82 |
From Picnic, Lightning (1998) | |
Fishing on the Susquehanna in July | p. 87 |
To a Stranger Born in Some Distant Country Hundreds of Years from Now | p. 89 |
I Chop Some Parsley While Listening to Art Blakey's Version of "Three Blind Mice" | p. 90 |
Afternoon with Irish Cows | p. 92 |
Marginalia | p. 94 |
Some Days | p. 97 |
Picnic, Lightning | p. 98 |
Morning | p. 100 |
Bonsai | p. 101 |
Shoveling Snow with Buddha | p. 103 |
Snow | p. 105 |
Japan | p. 107 |
Victoria's Secret | p. 109 |
Lines Composed Over Three Thousand Miles from Tintern Abbey | p. 113 |
Paradelle for Susan | p. 116 |
Lines Lost Among Trees | p. 117 |
Taking Off Emily Dickinson's Clothes | p. 119 |
The Night House | p. 121 |
Splitting Wood | p. 123 |
The Death of the Hat | p. 126 |
Passengers | p. 128 |
Where I Live | p. 130 |
Aristotle | p. 132 |
New Poems | |
Dharma | p. 137 |
Reading an Anthology of Chinese Poems of the Sung Dynasty, I Pause to Admire the Length and Clarity of Their Titles | p. 138 |
Snow Day | p. 140 |
Insomnia | p. 142 |
Madmen | p. 144 |
Sonnet | p. 146 |
Idiomatic | p. 147 |
The Waitress | p. 148 |
The Butterfly Effect | p. 151 |
Serenade | p. 152 |
The Three Wishes | p. 154 |
Pavilion | p. 156 |
The Movies | p. 158 |
Jealousy | p. 160 |
Tomes | p. 162 |
Man Listening to Disc | p. 164 |
Scotland | p. 166 |
November | p. 168 |
The Iron Bridge | p. 169 |
The Flight of the Reader | p. 171 |
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