Foreword | p. 9 |
Introduction | p. 15 |
"Bored" | p. 21 |
"Nocturnal" | p. 23 |
"Mr. X" | p. 25 |
"Schadenfreude" | p. 27 |
"Sunday, Tarzan in His Hammock" | p. 29 |
"The Woman Who Loved Things" | p. 31 |
"The Battle Hymn of the Republic" | p. 33 |
"Girl Writing a Letter" | p. 35 |
"Terminus" | p. 37 |
"The Infusion Room" | p. 40 |
"Sestina" | p. 43 |
"Thirty Years Rising" | p. 45 |
"Film Noir: Train Trip Out of Metropolis" | p. 48 |
"Sometimes I Get Distracted" | p. 50 |
"Terminal Laughs" | p. 51 |
"In the Clearing" | p. 54 |
"The Printer's Error" | p. 65 |
"For a Brother" | p. 68 |
"Salutations to Fernando Pessoa" | p. 69 |
"Another Day on the Pilgrimage" | p. 71 |
"Asparagus" | p. 75 |
"Undead White European Male" | p. 77 |
"A Still Life, Symbolic of Lines" | p. 80 |
"Being Pharaoh" | p. 83 |
"Permissive Entry: A Sermon on Fame" | p. 88 |
"If So" | p. 91 |
"Days of 1992" | p. 93 |
"St. Peregrinus' Cancer" | p. 96 |
"Prospects" | p. 98 |
"Unearthly Voices" | p. 99 |
"Against the Literal" | p. 103 |
"Seventeen" | p. 104 |
"Apocatastasis Foretold in the Shape of a Canvas of Smoke" | p. 106 |
"All Wild Animals Were Once Called Deer" | p. 108 |
"Sonogram" | p. 113 |
"On a Line from Valery" | p. 114 |
"1975" | p. 115 |
"Falling Water" | p. 117 |
"Troubling the Water" | p. 129 |
"Getting the Message" | p. 132 |
"Bridget" | p. 134 |
"My Night with Philip Larkin" | p. 137 |
"Refuge" | p. 138 |
"What You Find in the Woods" | p. 141 |
"Fracture Santa Monica" | p. 143 |
"My Mammogram" | p. 145 |
"And What Do You Get" | p. 149 |
"Exchange of Fire" | p. 150 |
"Shooting for Line" | p. 152 |
"The Interior Prisoner" | p. 158 |
"Late Night Tete-a-Tete with a Moon in Transit" | p. 164 |
"Have You Ever Faked an Orgasm?" | p. 175 |
"Toys" | p. 179 |
"Old Mama Saturday" | p. 181 |
"How Light Is Spent" | p. 183 |
"How Late Desire Looks" | p. 185 |
"The Night Before His Parents' First Trip to Europe His Mother Writes a Letter 'To Our Children'" | p. 187 |
"Outsider Art" | p. 189 |
"The Age of Reason" | p. 190 |
"Transit Authority" | p. 192 |
"Threads" | p. 194 |
"The Present Perfect" | p. 197 |
"Avec Amour" | p. 199 |
"Manufacturing" | p. 204 |
"Brotherhood" | p. 208 |
"Museum Piece" | p. 210 |
"The Nursery" | p. 212 |
"Scatter" | p. 214 |
"The Nose, the Grand Canyon, and the Sixties" | p. 217 |
"Walt Whitman Bathing" | p. 219 |
"The Shape of History" | p. 221 |
"San Joaquin Valley Poems: 1969" | p. 222 |
"Homage to Ryszard Kapuscinski" | p. 225 |
"The Cradle Logic of Autumn" | p. 229 |
"Blue Guide" | p. 231 |
Contributors' Notes and Comments | p. 239 |
Magazines Where the Poems Were First Published | p. 283 |
Acknowledgments | p. 286 |
Cumulative Series Index | p. 290 |
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