Published 1996
Table of Contents:
“…Curriculum Vitae -- Place and Time -- Immortality -- Losing My Sight -- An Unanswered Question -- Eyes and Ears -- Paper-White Narcissus -- Midwinter Notes -- Pillar of Salt -- Statues -- The Laughter of Women -- Pigeons -- Imaginary Paintings -- Things -- Tears -- Mirrors -- An Afterlife -- Heartland -- American Literature -- Silence and Dancing -- The Late-Born Daughters -- Happy and Unhappy Families I -- Happy and Unhappy Families II -- Reader -- Animals Are Entering Our Lives -- Why I Need the Birds -- A Short History of the Rose -- In November -- Night Voyage: A Dream -- Captivity -- The Blind Leading the Blind -- In the Thriving Season -- The Power of Music to Disturb -- On Finding a Bird's Bones in the Woods -- Cicadas -- The Mermaid -- Moon Fishing -- A Grackle Observed -- The Lonesome Dream -- The Queen of Sheba Says Farewell -- Figure for a Landscape -- "O Brave New World, That Hath Such People in It" -- In Memory of Anton Webern, Dead September 15, 1945 -- Whoever You Are: A Letter -- Small Poem About the Hounds and the Hares -- Reading the
Brothers Grimm to Jenny -- Highway Poems -- The Fall of the Muse -- The Biographer -- January Afternoon, with Billie Holiday -- Life of a Queen -- Alive Together -- My Grandmother's Gold Pin -- On Reading and Anthology of Postwar German Poetry -- What the Dog Perhaps Hears -- Palindrome -- Snow -- The Private Life -- The Late News -- A Nude by Edward Hopper -- In Praise of Surfaces -- Naming the Animals -- Love like Salt -- The Concert -- A Farewell, a Welcome -- Hope -- Letter from the End of the World -- For a Thirteenth Birthday -- Another Version -- Drawings by Children -- Fiction -- Sometimes, When the Light -- Beginning with 1914 -- Talking to Helen -- Daughter -- Merce Cunningham and the Birds -- Not Only the Eskimos -- Found in the Cabbage Patch -- One More Hymn to the Sun -- The Cook -- Picking Raspberries -- The Need to Hold Still -- Voices from the Forest -- The Triumph of Life: Mary Shelley -- The Story -- The Artist's Model, ca. 1912 -- The End of Science Fiction -- What Will You Do -- Why We Tell Stories -- Necessities -- Voyager -- Bread and Apples -- The Garden -- Blood Oranges -- Your Tired, Your Poor -- Identical Twins -- Southpaw -- After Whistler -- The Questioning -- Widow -- The Exhibit -- Letter to California -- Metaphor -- Storm -- Accommodations -- For the Strangers -- Up North -- Scenic Route -- Reasons for Numbers -- The Possessive Case -- Stalking the Poem -- Monet Refuses the Operation -- What Is Left to Say -- There Are Mornings -- Fugitive -- A Day like Any Other -- Into Space -- Missing the Dead -- When I Am Asked -- Joy -- Cavalleria Rusticana -- Magnolia -- Visiting My Native Country with My American-Born Husband -- Late Hours -- Poem for My Birthday -- Bedtime Story -- Virtuosi -- Three Poems About the Voiceless -- Epilepsy, Petit Mal -- Paul Delvaux: The Village of the Mermaids -- Aphasia -- Mary -- After Your Death -- All Night -- The Deaf Dancing to Rock -- Film Script -- Triage -- Muse -- Slides -- Brendel Playing Schubert -- Romantics -- Nocturne.…”
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