Linda Gregg's first two books are, at long last, available again--this time in a single volume. In this book, we witness the awakening of one of the finest American poets of her generation.

Linda Gregg has received numerous awards for her poetry, including a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Whiting Award. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The Kenyon Review, and Atlantic Monthly.

Too Bright to See

PART ONE: ALMA

We Manage Most When We Manage Small

5

(1)

A Game Called Fear

6

(1)

The Girl I Call Alma

7

(1)

The Chorus Speaks Her Words As She Dances

8

(2)

Gnostics on Trial

10

(1)

There She Is

11

(1)

The Woman Who Looks for Her Lost Sister She Says

12

(1)

At the Shore

13

(1)

The Beckett Kit

14

(2)

Sigismundo

16

(1)

The Poet Goes About Her Business

17

(1)

Goethe's Death Mask

18

(1)

Alma in All Seasons

19

(1)

Different Not Less

20

(3)

PART TWO: THE MARRIAGE AND AFTER

The Wife

23

(1)

The Island of Kos

24

(1)

Trouble in the Portable Marriage

25

(1)

The Small Lizard

26

(1)

Together in Greece

27

(1)

Classicism

28

(1)

Alma Watching Her Husband

29

(1)

Whole and Without Blessing

30

(1)

Growing Up

31

(1)

Summer in a Small Town

32

(1)

Unaccountable

33

(1)

After That

34

(1)

No More Marriages

35

(1)

Euridice

36

(2)

Now Destroyed

38

(2)

The Defeated

40

(2)

Too Bright to See

42

(1)

The Apparent

43

(4)

PART THREE: AFTER THAT

Not Singing

47

(1)

Blake

48

(2)

The Gods Must Not Know Us

50

(2)

The Grub

52

(1)

This Place

53

(1)

What If the World Stays Always Far Off

54

(3)

Staying On

57

(1)

Lilith

58

(2)

As When the Blowfish Perishing

60

(1)

Sun Moon Kelp Flower or Goat

61

(1)

Skylord

62

(1)

Alma to Her Sister

63

(4)

Alma

The Scent of White

67

(1)

At Home

68

(1)

Me and Aphrodite and the Other

69

(1)

Me and Alma

70

(1)

Alma Thinking about Men

71

(1)

Days

72

(1)

Safe and Beautiful

73

(1)

The Ghosts Poem

74

(8)

The Night before Leaving

82

(1)

Marriage and Midsummer's Night

83

(1)

Winter Birds

84

(1)

Balancing Everything

85

(1)

The Visitor

86

(1)

Figures near a Bridge

87

(1)

Pictures of Marriage

88

(1)

Forget All That

89

(1)

Nor the Moon nor Pretend

90

(1)

Alma in the Woods

91

(1)

The Thing Being Made

92

(1)

At the Gate in the Middle of My Life

93

(1)

Saying Good-Bye to the Dead

94

(1)

Not Saying Much

95

(1)

Oedipus Exceeding

96

(2)

The Shopping-Bag Lady

98

(1)

Lies and Longing

99

(1)

How the Joy of It Was Used Up Long Ago

100

(1)

What They Ate What They Wore

101

(1)

Coming Home

102

(1)

The Men Like Salmon

103

(1)

Lovers

104

(1)

The Copperhead

105

(1)

Death Looks Down

106

(1)

Pressure against Emptiness

107

(1)

Choosing against Ruins

108

(1)

Innocents

109

(1)

What Is Left Over

110

(1)

Something Scary

111

(1)

New York Address

112

(1)

I Will Remember

113

(1)

Alma in the Dark

114

(1)

Children among the Hills

115

(1)

Dry Grass & Old Color of the Fence & Smooth Hills

116

(1)

Trying to Believe

117

(1)

If Death Wants Me

118

(1)

The River Again and Again

119

(1)

With a Blessing Rather Than Love Said Nietzsche

120

(1)

Lessening

121

(1)

White Light

122

(1)

Adult

123

(1)

Still, Attentive, Clenched

124

(1)

Not Wanting Herself

125

(1)

Saskia and Alma Go Different Ways

126

(3)

Alma Is Willing

129

(1)

Praising Spring

130

(1)

Twelve Years after the Marriage She Tries to Explain

131

(1)

The Woman on Her Knees at the River

132

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