| Description |
xxiii, 421 pages ; 21 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 405-414) and index. |
| Contents |
tIntroduction --tStorm warnings -- Aunt Jennifer's tiger -- Air without incense -- Afterward -- The uncle speaks in the drawing room -- An unsaid word -- At a Bach concert -- The springboard -- For the conjunction of two planets -- Living in sin -- The snow queen -- A walk by the Charles -- The middle-aged -- The diamond cutters -- The knight -- September 21 -- Snapshots of a daughter-in-law -- Antinous: the diaries -- The afterwake -- A marriage in the 'sixties -- Ghost of a chance -- Prospective immigrants please note -- The roofwalker -- Necessities of life -- In the woods -- The corpse-plant -- he trees -- Like this together -- After dark -- "I am in danger-sir" -- Not like that -- The knot -- Moth hour -- Focus -- Face to face -- Orion -- Holding out -- In the evening -- 5:30 A.M. -- The key -- Abnegation -- To Frantz Fanon -- On edges -- Nightbreak -- Leaflets -- Planetarium -- The burning of paper instead of children -- I dreaM, I'm the death of Orpheus -- The blue ghazals -- Our whole life -- The stelae -- The will to change -- Images for Godard -- A valediction forbidding mourning -- Trying to talk with a man -- When we dead awaken -- Waking in the dark -- Incipience -- The stranger -- Song -- Diving into the wreck -- The phenomenology of anger -- Merced -- Living in the cave -- For the dead -- From a survivor -- From an old house in America -- The fact of a doorframe -- Power -- Phantasia for Elvira Shatayev -- Splittings -- To a poet -- Cartographies of silence -- Twenty-one love poems -- A woman dead in her forties -- Transcendental Etude -- Integrity -- Transit -- For memory -- For Ethel Rosenberg -- Sources -- North American time -- Dreams before waking -- Upcountry -- Poetry: I -- Poetry: III -- Yom Kippur 1984 -- Solfeggietto -- Delta -- 6/21 -- Dreamwood -- Living memory -- An atlas of the difficult world -- Tattered Kaddish -- Darklight -- Final notions -- What kinds of times are these -- In those years -- Calle Vision -- Take -- Late Ghazal -- From Pierced darkness -- The art of translation-- For an anniversary -- Midnight salvage -- Shattered head -- Camino real -- Saven skins -- Regardless -- Fox -- Noctilucent clouds -- If your name is on the list -- Terza Rima -- Rauschenberg's bed -- Waiting for you at the mystery spot -- Centaur's requiem-- Equinox -- Tell me -- The school among the ruins -- The evening let's -- The eye -- The is no one story and one story only -- Transparencies -- Memorize this -- Screen door -- Calibrations -- Skeleton key -- Behind the motel -- Archaic -- Long after Stevens -- Hubble photgraphs: after Sappho -- Director's notes -- Ever, again -- Telephone ringing in the labyrinth -- Waiting for rain, for music -- Reading the Iliad (as if) for the first time -- Turbulence -- Tonight no poetry will serve -- Axel Avakar -- Axel: backstory -- Axel, in thunder -- I was there, Axel -- Axel, darkly seen, in a glass house -- Ballade of the poverties -- Emergency clinic -- You, again -- Powers of Recuperation -- Itinerary -- Tracings -- Endpapers -- Adrienne Rich's notes on the poems -- Index of Titles and first lines. |
| Subject |
American poetry -- 20th century.
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American poetry -- 21st century.
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| Added Author |
Gelpi, Albert, editor.
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Gelpi, Barbara Charlesworth, editor.
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Millier, Brett Candlish, editor.
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| ISBN |
9780393355116 (pbk.) |
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