Introduction by Sam Solecki | xv | ||
The Birth of Tragedy | 1 | (2) | |
The Swimmer | 3 | (1) | |
Vexata Quaestio | 4 | (1) | |
The Black Huntsmen | 5 | (1) | |
Love the Conqueror Worm | 6 | (1) | |
Street Funeral | 7 | (1) | |
Against This Death | 8 | (1) | |
New Tables | 9 | (2) | |
To the Girls of My Graduating Class | 11 | (1) | |
Paraclete | 12 | (1) | |
Mont Rolland | 13 | (1) | |
Rain at La Minerve | 14 | (2) | |
Look, the Lambs Are All Around Us! | 16 | (2) | |
Misunderstanding | 18 | (1) | |
Composition in Late Spring | 19 | (2) | |
In the Midst of My Fever | 21 | (2) | |
Now That I'm Older | 23 | (1) | |
Maxie | 24 | (2) | |
Song for Naomi | 26 | (2) | |
For Louise, Age 17 | 28 | (1) | |
The Bull Calf | 29 | (2) | |
Seven O'Clock Lecture | 31 | (1) | |
The Improved Binoculars | 32 | (2) | |
The Cold Green Element | 34 | (2) | |
La Minerve | 36 | (1) | |
The Poetic Process | 37 | (2) | |
Keewaydin Poetry Festival | 39 | (2) | |
The Mosquito | 41 | (1) | |
Golfers | 42 | (1) | |
On Seeing the Statuettes of Ezekiel and Jeremiah in the Church of Notre Dame | 43 | (2) | |
From Colony to Nation | 45 | (1) | |
The Fertile Muck | 46 | (2) | |
Boys Bathing | 48 | (1) | |
Song for a Late Hour | 49 | (1) | |
Nausicaa | 50 | (1) | |
Bargain | 51 | (1) | |
The Convertible | 52 | (1) | |
Woman | 53 | (1) | |
Letter to a Librarian | 54 | (1) | |
On Being Bitten by a Dog | 55 | (1) | |
Whatever Else Poetry Is Freedom | 56 | (2) | |
My Flesh Comfortless | 58 | (2) | |
Cain | 60 | (2) | |
Cat Dying in Autumn | 62 | (2) | |
Cote des Neiges Cemetery | 64 | (2) | |
Sheep | 66 | (2) | |
Family Portrait | 68 | (1) | |
For Mao Tse-Tung: A Meditation on Flies and Kings | 69 | (2) | |
Berry Picking | 71 | (1) | |
Butterfly on Rock | 72 | (1) | |
Paging Mr. Superman | 73 | (3) | |
Still Life | 76 | (1) | |
The Predator | 77 | (2) | |
Keine Lazarovitch: 1870-1959 | 79 | (1) | |
The Cage | 80 | (1) | |
Political Economy | 81 | (1) | |
Divine Image | 82 | (1) | |
A Tall Man Executes a Jig | 83 | (4) | |
There Were No Signs | 87 | (1) | |
Plaza de Toros | 88 | (1) | |
Ballad of the Old Spaniard | 89 | (2) | |
El Gusano | 91 | (2) | |
The Day Aviva Came to Paris | 93 | (3) | |
An Old Nicoise Whore | 96 | (2) | |
Iroquois in Nice | 98 | (2) | |
Rhine Boat Trip | 100 | (1) | |
The Skull | 101 | (1) | |
Ithaca | 102 | (1) | |
Stella | 103 | (2) | |
Heraclitus | 105 | (2) | |
The Graveyard | 107 | (1) | |
For Musia's Grandchildren | 108 | (1) | |
A Strange Turn | 109 | (1) | |
For Natalya Correia | 110 | (1) | |
End of the White Mouse | 111 | (2) | |
Like a Mother Demented | 113 | (2) | |
Centennial Ode | 115 | (2) | |
Osip Mandelshtam (1891-1940) | 117 | (2) | |
To Maoists | 119 | (1) | |
Journey into the Long Night on Castors | 120 | (1) | |
Absence | 121 | (1) | |
The Silence | 122 | (1) | |
Signs and Portents | 123 | (2) | |
Bodhidharma | 125 | (1) | |
The Shark | 126 | (1) | |
The Haunting | 127 | (1) | |
Shakespeare | 128 | (4) | |
For Auld Lang Syne | 132 | (1) | |
The Arch | 133 | (2) | |
Catacombe dei Cappuccini | 135 | (2) | |
Parque de Montjuich | 137 | (2) | |
Cabalist | 139 | (1) | |
Midsummer's Dream in the Vienna Stadtpark | 140 | (1) | |
For 7515-03296 | 141 | (1) | |
Europe 1976 | 142 | (1) | |
The Haemorrhage | 143 | (1) | |
To the Victims of the Holocaust | 144 | (1) | |
After Auschwitz | 145 | (1) | |
For My Sons, Max and David | 146 | (2) | |
Israelis | 148 | (1) | |
For My Brother Jesus | 149 | (2) | |
The Luminous Bagel | 151 | (2) | |
Xianity | 153 | (1) | |
The Sinner | 154 | (1) | |
The Galilean | 155 | (1) | |
Dialogue | 156 | (1) | |
Recipe for a Long and Happy Life | 157 | (1) | |
Hells | 158 | (1) | |
The Dark Underside | 159 | (1) | |
O Jerusalem | 160 | (1) | |
Synagogue in West Palm Beach | 161 | (1) | |
The Puma | 162 | (2) | |
Yeats in St. Lucia | 164 | (2) | |
Figs | 166 | (1) | |
Narcissus | 167 | (1) | |
Flies | 168 | (2) | |
Grand Finale | 170 | (1) | |
Night Music | 171 | (2) | |
Where Was Your Shit-Detector, Pablo? | 173 | (3) | |
Dracula | 176 | (1) | |
The Slaughterhouse | 177 | (1) | |
Meditation of an Aging Lebanese Poet | 178 | (1) | |
La Commedia | 179 | (1) | |
Flytrap | 180 | (1) | |
The Human Cry | 181 | (1) | |
Senile, My Sister Sings | 182 | (2) | |
The Garburetor | 184 | (2) | |
How a Poem Moves | 186 | (1) | |
Proteus and Nymph | 187 | (1) | |
L'Envoi | 188 | (1) | |
The Annunciation | 189 | (1) | |
North of Eden | 190 | (1) | |
The Search | 191 | (2) | |
Anarch | 193 | (2) | |
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik | 195 | (2) | |
For My Neighbours in Hell | 197 | (1) | |
Sunflowers | 198 | (1) | |
Sempre | 199 | (1) | |
Early Morning Sounds | 200 | (1) | |
Greetings | 201 | (1) | |
Blossom | 202 | (1) | |
Nominalist | 203 | (1) | |
Samantha Clara Layton | 204 | (1) | |
The Garden | 205 | (2) | |
When Hourly I Praised | 207 | (1) | |
Everything in the Universe Has Its Place | 208 | (1) | |
Vita Aeterna | 209 | (1) | |
The Breaststroke | 210 | (1) | |
The Wheel | 211 | (2) | |
I Think of Ovid | 213 | (2) | |
Inspiration | 215 | (1) | |
Party at Hydra | 216 | (2) | |
Rupert Brooke: 1887-1915 | 218 | (2) | |
Fortuna et Cupidas | 220 | (2) | |
The Cockroach | 222 | (2) | |
The Tightrope Dancer | 224 | (1) | |
When Death Comes for You | 225 | (1) | |
Bridegroom | 226 | (1) | |
Two Women | 227 | (2) | |
Fascination | 229 | (1) | |
Medusas | 230 | (1) | |
The Prize | 231 | (1) | |
In Plato's Cave | 232 | (1) | |
Letter to a Lost Love | 233 | (2) | |
Operation Barbarossa | 235 | (1) | |
Expurgated Edition | 236 | (2) | |
Out of Pure Lust | 238 | (1) | |
Dead Souls | 239 | (1) | |
New Shining Worlds | 240 | (1) | |
Blind Man's Bluff | 241 | (1) | |
Perfection | 242 | (1) | |
The Dazed Fly | 243 | (2) | |
Descent from Eden | 245 | (2) | |
Sex Appeal | 247 | (1) | |
Odd Obsession | 248 | (2) | |
Portrait of a Modern Woman | 250 | (2) | |
To Make an End | 252 | (2) | |
Epistle to Catullus | 254 | (2) | |
Zucchini | 256 | (2) | |
Boris Pasternak | 258 | (1) | |
Aristocrats | 259 | (1) | |
From the Nether World | 260 | (2) | |
For the Wife of Mr. Milton | 262 | (1) | |
The Seesaw | 263 | (2) | |
The Carillon | 265 | (1) | |
I Take My Anna Everywhere | 266 | (1) | |
Yeats at Sixty-Five | 267 | (1) | |
Kali in the Suburbs | 268 | (1) | |
Greek Fly | 269 | (2) | |
August Strindberg | 271 | (1) | |
Dionysians in a Bad Time | 272 | (1) | |
Elegy for Marilyn Monroe | 273 | (3) | |
For Ettore, with Love and Admiration | 276 | (1) | |
Reingemacht | 277 | (2) | |
Boschka Layton: 1921-1984 | 279 | (1) | |
Eternal Recurrence | 280 | (1) | |
Elephant | 281 | (2) | |
Funeraria "Olea" | 283 | (1) | |
Peacock | 284 | (1) | |
Music Hath Such Charms | 285 | (1) | |
Tristezza | 286 | (1) | |
Fellini | 287 | (1) | |
Final Reckoning: After Theognis | 288 | (2) | |
Paul Verlaine | 290 | (1) | |
Nostalgia When the Leaves Begin to Fall | 291 | (1) | |
Old Men | 292 | (1) | |
The Lesson | 293 | (1) | |
Bottles | 294 | (2) | |
Arabs | 296 | (2) | |
Molibos | 298 | (1) | |
Twentieth Century Gothic | 299 | (1) | |
Black Tourist in Tinos | 300 | (1) | |
On the Death of Pope Paul VI | 301 | (1) | |
La Condition Humaine | 302 | (1) | |
Budapest | 303 | (2) | |
With the Money I Spend | 305 | (2) | |
Beutel's Name Is Inscribed for Eternal Life | 307 | (1) | |
Attending Suzanne's Funeral | 308 | (2) | |
Late Invitation to the Dance | 310 | (2) | |
Lillian Roxon | 312 | (1) | |
Birthday Poem for John Newlove | 313 | (2) | |
Sandcrab | 315 | (1) | |
Etruscan Tombs | 316 | (2) | |
A Wild Peculiar Joy | 318 | (3) | |
Irving Layton on Poetry | 321 | (14) | |
A Note on the Text | 335 | (2) | |
Index of Titles | 337 |
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