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Tables of Contents for Selected Poems 1960-1990
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
from Halfway
17
14
Halfway
17
2
Fraulein Reads Instructive Rhymes
19
2
400-Meter Freestyle
21
2
Casablanca
23
1
A Hundred Nights
24
2
On Being Asked to Write a Poem for the Centenary of the Civil War
26
2
The First Rain of Spring
28
3
from The Privilege
31
22
Morning Swim
31
2
Sisyphus
33
2
The Pawnbroker
35
3
The Appointment
38
2
Quarry, Pigeon Cove
40
2
Prothalamion
42
1
Purgatory
43
1
from Joppa Diary
44
9
JANUARY 25TH
44
1
MAY 10TH
45
1
JUNE 15TH
45
1
SEPTEMBER 22ND
46
7
from The Nightmare Factory
53
16
The Presence
53
1
The Vealers
54
2
Watering Through
56
1
Hello, Hello Henry
57
1
Making the Jam without You
58
3
For My Great-Grandfather: A Message Long Overdue
61
2
We Are
63
1
After Love
64
1
The Nightmare Factory
65
4
from Up Country
69
16
The Hermit Wakes to Bird Sounds
69
1
The Hermit Meets the Skunk
70
2
The Hermit Prays
72
1
The Hermit Picks Berries
73
1
Creatures
74
1
Stones
75
1
The Dreamer, the Dream
76
1
Beans
77
2
Mud
79
1
Woodchucks
80
5
from House, Bridge, Fountain, Gate
85
42
History Lesson
85
2
The Thirties Revisited
87
4
Sperm
91
4
The Deaths of the Uncles
95
2
Life's Work
97
2
The Jesus Infection
99
2
Living Alone with Jesus
101
2
To Swim, to Believe
103
2
The Selling of the Slaves
105
2
In the Root Cellar
107
2
The Mummies
109
1
Song for Seven Parts of the Body
110
3
Heaven as Anus
113
1
Young Nun at Bread Loaf
114
2
Amanda Is Shod
116
1
Amanda Dreams She Has Died and Gone to the Elysian Fields
117
1
The Agnostic Speaks to Her Horse's Hoof
118
2
Eyes
120
2
Thinking of Death and Dogfood
122
5
from The Retrieval System
127
40
The Retrieval System
127
2
The Longing to Be Saved
129
2
Address to the Angels
131
3
My Father's Neckties
134
2
Progress Report
136
2
The Food Chain
138
1
The Henry Manley Blues
139
2
Birthday Poem
141
1
Changing the Children
142
2
Seeing the Bones
144
2
Sunbathing on a Rooftop in Berkeley
146
2
The Envelope
148
1
Body and Soul: A Meditation
149
3
How It Is
152
1
Splitting Wood at Six Above
153
2
Late Snow
155
1
The Excrement Poem
156
1
In April, in Princeton
157
2
July, Against Hunger
159
1
The Survival Poem
160
2
Territory
162
1
How It Goes On
163
4
from Our Ground Time Here Will Be Brief
167
28
Our Ground Time Here Will Be Brief
167
1
Rejoicing with Henry
168
2
Henry Manley Looks Back
170
1
Feeding Time
171
3
In the Pea Patch
174
1
Relearning the Language of April
175
1
Continuum: a Love Poem
176
1
Family Reunion
177
2
Leaving My Daughter's House
179
2
February
181
1
Itinerary of an Obsession
182
3
Apostrophe to a Dead Friend
185
2
In Memoriam P.W.Jr. 1921-1980
187
8
THE UNFINISHED STORY
187
1
THE INCEST DREAM
187
2
OUT-OF-THE-BODY TRAVEL
189
1
RETROSPECT IN THE KITCHEN
189
1
THE MAN OF MANY L'S
190
5
from The Long Approach
195
42
You Are in Bear Country
195
3
Atlantic City 1939
198
1
The Chain
199
2
Introducing the Fathers
201
1
Appetite
202
1
Grandchild
203
2
Caring: a Dream
205
2
Shopping in Ferney with Voltaire
207
4
At a Private Showing in 1982
211
3
In the Absence of Bliss
214
3
Video Cuisine
217
2
How to Survive Nuclear War
219
3
Getting Through
222
2
Out in It
224
2
My Elusive Guest
226
1
Shelling Jacobs Cattle Beans
227
3
After the Harvest
230
3
The Long Approach
233
4
from Nurture
237
52
Nurture
237
1
With the Caribou
238
1
In Warm Rooms, Before a Blue Light
239
3
Thoughts on Saving the Manatee
242
3
Repent
245
1
Homage to Binsey Poplars
246
2
Custodian
248
2
Bringing Back the Trumpeter Swan
250
2
The Accolade of the Animals
252
2
Sleeping with Animals
254
2
Encounter in August
256
1
Catchment
257
2
On Reading an Old Baedeker in Schloss Leopoldskron
259
2
The Festung, Salzburg
261
1
Night Launch
262
2
Photograph, Maryland Agricultural College Livestock Show, 1924
264
1
Photograph, U.S. Army Flying School, College Park, Maryland, 1909
265
1
On Being Asked to Write a Poem in Memory of Anne Sexton
266
1
In the Park
267
2
Marianne, My Mother, and Me
269
6
A Calling
275
1
Turning the Garden in Middle Age
276
1
Reviewing the Summer and Winter Calendar of the Next Life
277
2
Grappling in the Central Blue
279
2
The Bangkok Gong
281
2
We Stood There Singing
283
1
Distance
284
2
A Game of Monopoly in Chavannes
286
3
Index
289