- Published
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Port Townsend, Wash. :
Copper Canyon Press
2000.
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Physical Description
- xiv, 279 p.
- ISBN
- 9781556591471
- New Poems
- Sounds of the Resurrected Dead Man's Footsteps
- (#1). Baby Hamlet/The Play Within the Play
- (#2). Skulls/Skulls
- (#3). Beast, Peach and Dance/Angel, Portrait and Breath
- (#4). Indeterminate Time/Yes and No
- (#5). Fly, Fleece and Tractor/Syringe, Cloak and Elevator
- (#6). A Tree in a Window, the Window Itself, and the Mustard-Colored Butter Substitute That Might Be the Sun/Coos Bay
- (#7). Odysseus/Inconsolable Love
- (#8). His Knickers, His High Shoes/His Windbreaker, His Watch Cap
- (#9). Exquisite Disembodiment/Apotheosis and Separation
- (#10). Dog, Bell and Blossom/Kneecap, Whiskey and Glass
- (#11). Passion/Consolation
- (#12). Today, Tibet/Tomorrow, Tibet
- (#13). That Swine Are Intelligent/That Ducks Are Dumb
- (#14). Lives of the Whales/Old Whalers Church, Sag Harbor
- (#15). Man Burning a Field/Vertigo
- (#16). Oneself/One's Other Self
- (#17). At the Walking Dunes, Eastern Long Island/Walking in the Drowning Forest
- (#18). One Potato Two/Three Potato Four
- (#19). Griddle, Grease and Piecrust/Oboe, Drum and Pocket Trumpet
- (#20). Shakespeare Expected/Shakespeare Dismissed
- (#21). Less Judgment/Less Self
- from Things We Dreamt We Died For [1966]
- The Hole in the Sea
- Treetops
- What Songs the Soldiers Sang
- Things We Dreamt We Died For
- The Condition
- My Hate
- The Admission
- Walking Thoughts
- The Israeli Navy
- from A Probable Volume of Dreams [1969]
- Give Back, Give Back
- The Parents of Psychotic Children
- A Picture of Soldiers
- The Extermination of the Jews
- Water, Winter, Fire
- Our Subject Death
- from The Escape into You [1971]
- A Biography
- I Adore You (1960)
- Honi Soit Qui Mal Y Pense
- Rescue, Rescue
- Your Shakespeare
- We Have Known
- American Poets
- Song of Social Despair
- Getting Lost in Nazi Germany
- Our Romance
- Obsessive
- The Answer
- What Lasts
- Constant Feelings
- The Willing
- Put Back the Dark
- Song: The Organic Years
- from Residue of Song [1974]
- Study of the Letter A
- Aristotle
- Origin of Dreams
- Father and Russia
- Garlic
- Trying to Catch Fire
- You Would Know
- Little Father Poem
- Temper
- from Stars Which See, Stars Which Do Not See [1977]
- The Self and the Mulberry
- Unable to Wake in the Heat
- The Mystery of Emily Dickinson
- Trinket
- The Wild Cherry Tree Out Back
- Two Pictures of a Leaf
- Stars Which See, Stars Which Do Not See
- To No One In Particular
- Written During Depression: How to Be Happy
- "Gradually, It Occurs to Us..."
- What Is There
- Dew at the Edge of a Leaf
- By Different Paths
- An Introduction to My Anthology
- Watching the Bomber Pass Over
- To Dorothy
- Gemwood
- from These Green-Going-to-Yellow [1981]
- He Said To
- We Had Seen a Pig
- The Canal at Rye
- The Last Thing I Say
- To an Adolescent Weeping Willow
- These Green-Going-to-Yellow
- A Motor
- from Drawn by Stones, by Earth, by Things That Have Been in the Fire [1984]
- White Clover
- Unless It Was Courage
- Jane Was With Me
- Drawn by Stones, by Earth, by Things That Have Been in the Fire
- Starfish
- Felt but Not Touched
- Trees As Standing for Something
- Instructions to Be Left Behind
- The Nest
- The Facts of Life
- Days of Time
- One of the Animals
- The Stones
- Personal Reasons
- from New and Selected Poems [1987]
- Wednesday
- Long Island
- Replica
- The Politics of an Object
- Classified
- The Pill
- In My Nature: 3 Corrective Dialogues
- After a Line by Theodore Roethke
- from Iris of Creation [1990]
- He Had a Good Year
- An Old Trembling
- Nature
- Comb and Rake
- A Man May Change
- 3 Horses Facing the Saskatchewan Sun
- How He Grew Up
- I, or Someone Like Me
- Portrait
- Tall Ships
- An Elegy for the Past
- I Will Not Be Claimed
- By the Iowa
- Dark Brow
- A Primer About the Flag
- Icarus Thought
- Washing Our Hands of the Rest of America
- If I Had One Thing to Say
- Sevens (Version 3): In the Closed Iris of Creation
- Darts
- Victim of Himself
- Poem After Carlos Drummond de Andrade
- Initial Conditions
- from A Marvin Bell Reader [1994]
- Ecstasy
- Short Version of Ecstasy
- Cryptic Version of Ecstasy
- Eastern Long Island
- Poem in Orange Tones
- Interview
- The Uniform
- Ending with a Line from Lear
- from The Book of the Dead Man [1994]
- (#1). About the Dead Man
- (#3). About the Beginnings of the Dead Man
- (#6). About the Dead Man's Speech
- (#11). About the Dead Man and Medusa
- (#13). About the Dead Man and Thunder
- (#14). About the Dead Man and Government
- (#15). About the Dead Man and Rigor Mortis
- (#19). About the Dead Man and Winter
- (#21). About the Dead Man's Happiness
- (#23). About the Dead Man and His Masks
- (#29). About the Dead Man and Sex
- (#30). About the Dead Man's Late Nights
- from Ardor: The Book of the Dead Man, Vol. 2 [1997]
- (#34). About the Dead Man, Ashes and Dust
- (#35). About the Dead Man and Childhood
- (#42). About the Dead Man's Not Telling
- (#43). About the Dead Man and Desire
- (#47). Toaster, Kettle and Breadboard
- (#54). About the Dead Man and the Corpse of Yugoslavia
- (#58). About the Dead Man Outside
- (#62). About the Dead Man Apart
- (#63). About the Dead Man and Anyway
- (#65). About the Dead Man and Sense
- (#66). About the Dead Man and Everpresence
- (#68). Accounts of the Dead Man
- Index of Titles
- Index of First Lines
Review by Publisher's Weekly Review