Collected poems : 1974--2004 / by Dove, Rita

Table of Contents: “…Grace notes (1989) -- Summit Beach,1921 -- Silos -- Fifth grade autobiography -- The buckeye -- Quaker oats -- Flash cards -- Crab-boil -- Hully gully -- Fantasy and science fiction -- Sisters -- Uncle Millet -- Poem in which I refuse contemplation -- Mississippi -- After storm -- Watching Last Year at Marienbad at Roger Haggerty's house in Auburn, Alabama -- Dog days, Jerusalem -- Ozone -- Turning thirty, I contemplate students bicycling home -- Particulars -- Your death -- The wake -- The other side of the house -- Pastoral -- Horse and tree -- The breathing, the endless news -- After reading Mickey in the Night Kitchen for the third time before bed -- Genetic expedition -- Backyard, 6 a.m. -- Dedication -- Ars poetica -- Arrow -- Stitches -- In the museum -- And counting -- Dialectical romance -- Medusa -- In a neutral city -- Saints -- Genie's prayer under the kitchen sink -- The gorge -- Canary -- The island women of Paris -- À l'Opéra -- Obbligato -- Lint -- The royal workshops -- On the road to Damascus -- Old folk's home, Jerusalem -- Mother love (1995) -- An intact world -- Heroes -- Primer -- Party dress for a first born -- Persephone, falling -- The search -- Protection -- The narcissus flower -- Persephone abducted -- Statistic : the witness -- Grief : the Council -- Mother love -- Breakfast of champions -- Golden oldie -- Persephone in hell - Hades' pitch -- Wiederkehr -- Wiring home -- The Bistro Styx -- Blue days -- Nature's itinerary -- Sonnet in primary colors -- Demeter mourning -- Exit -- Afield -- Lost brilliance -- Political -- Demeter, waiting -- Lamentations -- Teotihuacán -- History -- Used -- Rusks -- Missing -- Demeter's prayer to Hades -- Her island -- On the bus with Rosa Parks (1999) -- Cameos -- July 1925 -- Night -- Birth -- Lake Erie skyline, 1930 -- Depression years -- Homework -- Graduation, grammar school -- Painting the town -- Easter Sunday, 1940 -- Nightwatch, the son -- Freedom : bird's eye view -- Singsong -- I cut my finger once on purpose -- Parlor -- The first book -- Maple Valley Branch Library, 1967 -- Freedom : birds' eye view -- Testimonial -- Dawn revisited -- Black on a Saturday night -- My mother enters the work force -- Black on a Saturday night -- The musician talks about "process" -- Sunday -- The camel comes to us from the barbarians -- The Venus of Willendorf -- Incarnation in Phoenix -- Revenant -- Best Western Motor Lodge, AAA Approved -- Revenant -- On Veronica -- There came a soul -- The peach orchard -- Against repose -- Against self-pity -- Götterdämmerung -- Ghost walk -- Lady Freedom among us -- For Sophie, who'll be in first grade in the year 2000 --…”