Synopses & Reviews
A new collected volume from the Nobel Prize–winning poet that includes, for the first time in English, all of the poems from her last Polish collectionOne of Europe’s greatest recent poets is also its wisest, wittiest, and most accessible. Nobel Prize–winner Wislawa Szymborska draws us in with her unexpected, unassuming humor. Her elegant, precise poems pose questions we never thought to ask. “If you want the world in a nutshell,” a Polish critic remarks, “try Szymborska.” But the world held in these lapidary poems is larger than the one we thought we knew.
Carefully edited by her longtime, award-winning translator, Clare Cavanagh, the poems in Map trace Szymborska’s work until her death in 2012. Of the approximately two hundred and fifty poems included here, nearly forty are newly translated; thirteen represent the entirety of the poet’s last Polish collection, Enough, never before published in English.
Map is the first English publication of Szymborska’s work since the acclaimed Here, and it offers her devoted readers a welcome return to her “ironic elegance” (The New Yorker).
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PRAISE FOR CHARLES SIMIC
"Few contemporary poets have been as influential-or as inimitable- as Charles Simic."-THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
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"This 20th collection from the former U.S. poet laureate (My Noiseless Entourage) departs only by degrees from his poems of earlier decades--but it could just be his best book." —Publishers Weekly, STARRED review
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"A master of the surreal, Simic packs his poems full of horror movies, bleak jokes, savage ironies and the things an insomniac notices on the ceiling. . . . A gem."-People
"Charles Simic is a contemporary master of the short lyric [who] makes an art out of clarity of vision."-The American Poet, Spring 1999
"These poems are like self-developing Polaroids, in which a scene, gradually assembling itself out of unexplained images, suddenly clicks into a recognizable whole."-The New York Review of Books
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"[New and Selected] offers readers the chance to experience and reassess one of the more unique voices in contemporary literature. . . Wandering the tangled byways of [Simics] imagination, we discover in our own workaday streets a phantasmagoria of the ordinary. . . Playful, sly [and] thrilling."—Washington Post
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Map:
New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice
"Both plain-spoken and luminous…Szymborska’s skepticism, her merry, mischievous irreverence and her thirst for the surprise of fresh perception make her the enemy of all tyrannical certainties. Hers is the best of the Western mind—free, restless, questioning.”--New York Times Book Review
"Vast, intimate, and charged with the warmth of a life fully imagined to the end, there’s no better place for those unfamiliar with her work to begin."--Megan O'Grady, Vogue
“Listening to Clare Cavanagh speak of translation as an art is a reminder that translators must be as adept as poets at working with words...Map is not only impressive because of Szymborska’s precise, intimate, and observationally funny poems...but because of Cavanagh and Baranczak’s tireless dedication in bringing them to English without sacrificing their forms."--Jacob Victorine, Publishers Weekly Profile
"Nobel laureate Szymborska’s gorgeous posthumous collection, translated and edited by her confidant, Cavanagh, with Baranczak, includes more than 250 poems, selected from 13 books, dating back to 1952, as well as previously unreleased poems from as far back as 1944. This revered Polish poet, who came to fame well after the poet Charles Simic first handed her work to an editor, interweaves insights into the suffering experienced during WWII and the Cold War brutalities of Stalin with catchy, realistic, colloquial musings on obvious and overlooked aspects of survival. Her poems are revelatory yet rooted in the everyday. She writes about living with horrors, and about ordinary lives: people in love, at work, enjoying a meal. Throughout, Szymborska considers loss and fragility, as when former lovers walk past each other and an aging professor is no longer allowed his vodka and cigarettes. She writes, too, of the imprecision of memory, and in the title poem, the discovery that maps “give no access to the vicious truth.” This is a brilliant and important collection."— Mark Eleveld, Booklist, starred review
"Szymborska (1923–2012), winner of the 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature, has her vast and impressive poetic repertoire on full display in this posthumously published volume. Ordered chronologically, the book reveals her development over seven decades, including a gradual departure from end rhyme and the sharpening of her wit. As multitudinous as Whitman, she conveyed deep feeling through vivid, surreal imagery and could revive clichéd language by reconnecting it to the body in startling ways: “Listen,/ how your heart pounds inside me.” To say that Szymborska wore many hats as a poet is an understatement: odes, critiques, and persona poems are just a few of the forms her writing took. Yet, despite their diversity, the constants of her poems were nuance and observational humor: 'Four billion people on this earth,/ but my imagination is still the same.' Also apparent is Szymborska’s rare ability to present an epiphany in a single line, and her bravery in writing toward death: 'But time is short. I write.' Ever the student, she obsessively explored the histories and processes of writing, never far from penning another Ars Poetica. 'Everything here is small, near, accessible,' Szymborska writes in the title poem—a maxim about the way the reader feels within her lines."--Publishers Weekly, starred and boxed review
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"Simic, original and engaging, keeps us on our toes, guessing, questioning and looking at the world in a new way."
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"These poems show a master craftsman at work."
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"Establishes Simic once again as a reliable master of his particular, melancholy, wry mode."
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Praise for Christopher Reid
"Reid is a poet who lives on in the mind, becomes part of one's own inner vocabulary. In every poetic generation there are not more than one or two like that."-Poetry Review
"Our most jaunty, disturbing poet . . . The poems are at once quietly canny in their verbal simplicity, and wildly ambitious in their reach."-The Observer (London)
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“The next time someone asks me what advantage poetry holds over prose, I will point to these lines, which move beyond the description of pain to its tangible embodiment…Gregerson attains what few contemporary poets even seek: a plausible 'we,' a basis for speaking across the lines of individual circumstance and social identity.”—Dan Chiasson,
The New Yorker “A truly interdisciplinary thinker, Gregerson reaches through literature, art, and the everyday to find territory in which the confounding conditions of our age still give rise to understanding and empathy.”—Publishers Weekly
"The breadth of poetic creativity in National Book Award finalist Gregerson’s grand compilation is beautiful in scope, elastic in space, and spectacularly aware and erudite. As she considers Roman gods, the limits of Earth, art, and politics, her use of delicate detail and experimental forms create a vibrant tapestry, while more ethereal subjects and language together coalesce into an introspective pattern of discovery. Ten brilliantly etched new poems followed by a hand-picked collection of 50 poems from her previous five collections, spanning from Fire in the Conservatory (1982) to The Selvage (2012), make this one of the most important poetry volumes of the season."—Mark Eleveld, Booklist
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"It takes just one glimpse of Charles Simic's work to establish that he is a master, ruler of his own eccentric kingdom of jittery syntax and signature insight." -
Los Angeles TimesFor over fifty years, Charles Simic has been widely celebrated for his brilliant and innovative poetic imagery, his sardonic wit, and a voice all his own. He has been awarded nearly every major literary prize for his poetry, including a Pulitzer and a MacArthur grant, in addition to serving as the poet laureate of the United States in 2007 and 2008.
In this new volume, he distills his life's work, combining for the first time the best of his early poems with his later works--including nearly three dozen revisions--along with seventeen new, never-before-published poems. Simic's body of work draws inspiration from a range of topics, from the inscrutability of ordinary life to American blues, from folktales to marriage and war.
Consistently exciting and unexpected, the nearly four hundred poems in this volume represent the best of one of America's most distinguished and original poets.
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This new collection of poems from Charles Simic demonstrates once again his wit, moral acuity, and brilliant use of imagery. His settings are a farmhouse porch, a used-clothing store, empty station platforms; his subjects love, futility, and the sense of an individual life lived among a crowd of literal and imaginary presences.
Both sharp and sympathetic, the poems of this collection confirm Simic's place as one of the most important and appealing poets of our time.
To Dreams
I'm still living at all the old addresses,
Wearing dark glasses even indoors,
On the hush-hush sharing my bed
With phantoms, visiting in the kitchen
After midnight to check the faucet.
I'm late for school, and when I get there
No one seems to recognize me.
I sit disowned, sequestered and withdrawn.
These small shops open only at night
Where I make my unobtrusive purchases,
These back-door movie houses in seedy neighborhoods
Still showing grainy films of my life,
The hero always full of extravagant hope
Losing it all in the end?-whatever it was-
Then walking out into the cold, disbelieving light
Waiting close-lipped at the exit.
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A new collection of poems by the recent Poet Laureate.
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In his first volume of poetry since his tenure as poet laureate, Charles Simic shows he is at the height of his poetic powers. These new poems mine the rich strain of inscrutability in ordinary life, until it is hard to know what is innocent and what ominous. There is something about his work that continues to be crystal clear and yet deeply weighted with violence and mystery. Reading it is like going undercover. The face of a girl carrying a white dress from the cleaners with her eyes half-closed. The Adam & Evie Tanning Salon at night. A sparrow on crutches. A rubber duck in a shooting gallery on a Sunday morning. And someone in a tree swing, too old to be swinging and to be wearing no clothes at all, blowing a toy trumpet at the sky.
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In this new collection of sixty-two poems Charles Simic paints exquisite and shattering word pictures that lend meaning to a chaotic world populated by insects, bridal veils, pallbearers, TV sets, parrots, and a finely detailed dragonfly. Suffused with hope yet unafraid to mock his own credulity, Simic's searing metaphors unite the solemn with the absurd. His raindrops listen to each other fall and collect memories; his wildflowers are drunk with kissing the red-hot breezes; and his God is a Mr. Know-it-all, a wheeler-dealer, a wire-puller. In this latest lyrical gathering, Simic continues to startle his fans with the powerful and surprising images that are his trademark-slangy images of the ethereal, fantastic visions of the everyday, foreign scenes of the all-American-and moments full of humor and full of heartache.
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The first ever volume of new and selected poetry from one of our most celebrated and acclaimed poets, Charles Simic.
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“It takes just one glimpse of Charles Simic’s work to establish that he is a master, ruler of his own eccentric kingdom of jittery syntax and signature insight.” -
Los Angeles Times For over fifty years, Charles Simic has been widely celebrated for his brilliant and innovative poetic imagery, his sardonic wit, and a voice all his own. He has been awarded nearly every major literary prize for his poetry, including a Pulitzer and a MacArthur grant, in addition to serving as the poet laureate of the United States in 2007 and 2008.
In this new volume, he distills his life’s work, combining for the first time the best of his early poems with his later works—including nearly three dozen revisions—along with seventeen new, never-before-published poems. Simic’s body of work draws inspiration from a range of topics, from the inscrutability of ordinary life to American blues, from folktales to marriage and war.
Consistently exciting and unexpected, the nearly four hundred poems in this volume represent the best of one of America’s most distinguished and original poets.
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A new collected volume from the Nobel Prize-winning poet, with over 30 poems never previously published together in English, including the 13 poems from the final Polish collection, Enough.
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A collection of new and selected poetry, her first retrospective collection, from National Book Award finalist and Kingsley Tufts Award–winning poet Linda Gregerson
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The essential poems, selected by Donald Hall: “The hard-won achievement of a lifetime” (Wall Street Journal)
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Described by Robert Hass as "unquestionably one of the great living European poets" and by Charles Simic as "one of the finest poets living today," Szymborska mesmerizes her readers with poetry that captivates their minds and captures their hearts. This is the book that her many fans have been anxiously awaiting-the definitive, complete collection of poetry by the Nobel Prize-winning poet, including 164 poems in all, as well as the full text of her Nobel acceptance speech of December 7, 1996, in Stockholm. Beautifully translated by Stanislaw Bara«nczak and Clare Cavanagh, who won a 1996 PEN Translation Prize for their work, this volume is a must-have for all readers of poetry.
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This definitive edition of Szymborskas poetry in English includes the 100 poems in View with a Grain of Sand as well as sixty-four newly translated poems and her 1996 Nobel Prize acceptance speech. Translated by Stanislaw Bara«nczak and Clare Cavanagh.
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Former poet laureate Donald Hall selects the essential work from a moving and brilliant life in poetry. The ability to write poems has “abandoned” Donald Hall, now in his eighties, one of the most significant — and beloved — poets of his generation. Instead of creating new poems, he has looked back over his astonishingly rich body of work and hand-picked poems for this final, concise volume that will delight, and endure. The Selected Poems of Donald Hall is the definitive collection, showcasing poems rich with humor and eros and “a kind of simplicity that succeeds in engaging the reader in the first few lines” (Billy Collins). “However wrenching [Hall’s poems] may be from line to line, they tell a story that is essentially reassuring: art and love are compatible, genius is companionable, and people stand by one another in the end” (New York Times Book Review).
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In her first book of collected work, prize-winning poet Linda Gregerson mines nearly forty years of poetry, bringing us a full range of her talents. Ten new poems introduce Prodigal, followed by fifty poems, culled from Gregerson's five collections, that range broadly in subject from class in America to our world's ravaged environment to the wonders of parenthood to the intersection of science and art to the passion of the Roman gods, and beyond. This selection reinforces Gregerson’s standing as “one of poetry’s mavens . . . whose poetics seek truth through the precise apprehension of the beautiful while never denying the importance of rationality” (Chicago Tribune). A brilliant stylist, known for her formal experiments as well as her perfected lines, Gregerson is a poet of great vision. Here, the growth of her art and the breadth of her interests offer a snapshot of a major poet's intellect in the midst of her career.
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Since 1976, Christopher Reid has been startling and delighting readers of poetry. His philosphic concerns are often expressed in small, domestic details, but, as with the Metaphysical poets he admires, the effect heightens his poetry's seriousness and impact. Reid finds significance in the marginal, the endangered, the apocryphal, and the absurd. His verse, which has earned him both the distinguished Hawthornden and Somerset Maugham Prizes, is subversive and highly intelligent.
The Pultizer Prize-winning poet Charles Simic provides a welcome introduction to one of England's most distinguished and original voices.
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A brilliant new collection of poems by Kingsley Tufts Award–winning poet Thomas Lux
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To the Left of Time, Thomas Lux adds over fifty new poems to his celebrated oeuvre. Broken into three sections, these include autobiographical poems, odes, and a final section that delves into a variety of subjects reflective of Lux's imaginative range. Full of his characteristic satire and humor, this new collection promises laughter and profound insight into the human condition.
To the Left of Time is a powerful addition to the work of one who has been widely praised for his ability to offer image and metaphor-driven visions as well as lines of plain language and immediacy. This collection proves that Lux's work will continue to inspire readers for decades to come.
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Charles Simic's new collection of sixty-two poems continues to startle. Whether he is writing of wild flowers "Drunk with kissing/The red hot summer breezes"; or of God, that "Boss of all bosses of the universe/Mr. Know-it-all, wheeler-dealer, wire puller"; or of rain drops "Which take turns listening/To each other fall intermittently/As they go around collecting memories," Simic creates powerful, fresh images that are at once slangy and lyrical, irreverent and God-fearing, foreign and all-American, humorous and full of heartache.
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In this volume, Simic fills the wee hours of his poetry with angels and pigs, riddles and cemeteries. His is a rich, haunted world of East European memory and american present-a world of his own creation, one always full of luminous surprise. “Simic writes so simply that his words fall like drops of water, but they ripple outward to evoke an ominous and numinous world” (Washington Post Book World).
About the Author
LINDA GREGERSON is the author of Waterborne, The Woman Who Died in Her Sleep, and Fire in the Conservatory. She teaches Renaissance literature and creative writing at the University of Michigan. Her poems have appeared in The Best American Poetry as well as in the Atlantic, Poetry, Ploughshares, the Yale Review, TriQuarterly, and other publications. Among her many awards and honors are a Guggenheim Fellowship, an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature, four Pushcart Prizes, and a Kingsley Tufts Award.
Table of Contents
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Selected Early PoemsButcher Shop 3
Cockroach 3
Tapestry 4
Evening 5
The Inner Man 5
Fear 7
Summer Morning 7
Dismantling the Silence 9
Bestiary for the Fingers of My Right Hand 9
Fork 11
Spoon 11
Knife 12
My Shoes 14
Stone 14
Poem Without a Title 15
Concerning My Neighbors, the Hittites 16
Invention of Nothing 19
errata 19
The Bird 20
Two Riddles 22
Brooms 23
Watermelons 25
The Place 26
Breasts 26
Charles Simic 28
Solitude 29
The Chicken Without a Head 30
White 32
What the White Had to Say 41
The Partial Explanation 42
The Lesson 43
A Landscape with Crutches 45
Help Wanted 46
Animal Acts 47
Charons Cosmology 47
The Ballad of the Wheel 48
A Wall 50
The Terms 50
Eyes Fastened with Pins 51
The Prisoner 52
Empire of Dreams 52
Prodigy 53
Baby Pictures of Famous Dictators 54
Shirt 55
Begotten of the Spleen 56
Toy Factory 57
The Little Tear Gland That Says 58
The Stream 59
Furniture Mover 61
Elegy 64
Note Slipped Under a Door 66
Grocery 67
Classic Ballroom Dances 68
Progress Report 69
Winter Night 69
The Cold 70
Devotions 70
Cold Blue Tinge 71
The Writings of the Mystics 72
Window Washer 73
Gallows Etiquette 74
In Midsummer Quiet 74
Peaceful Trees 75
My Beloved 77
Hurricane Season 78
Note 79
History 79
Strictly Bucolic 80
Crows 81
February 82
Punch Minus Judy 82
Austerities 83
Eastern European Cooking 84
My Weariness of Epic Proportions 85
Madonnas Touched Up with Goatees 85
Midpoint 86
from Unending Blues
December 91
Toward Nightfall 91
Early Evening Algebra 94
Ever So Tragic 94
For the Sake of Amelia 95
At the Night Court 96
Dark Farmhouses 97
Popular Mechanics 98
The Fly 98
Outside a Dirtroad Trailer 99
Dear Helen 100
Trees in the Open Country 100
October Arriving 101
Ancient Autumn 102
Against Whatever It Is Thats Encroaching 103
First Frost 103
Without a Sough of Wind 104
from The World Doesnt End
My mother was . . . 109
I was stolen . . . 109
Shes pressing me . . . 109
We were so poor . . . 109
I am the last . . . 110
Everybody knows the . . . 110
He held the Beast . . . 110
It was the epoch . . . 110
Ghost stories written . . . 111
The city had fallen . . . 111
The stone is . . . 111
Lover of endless . . . 111
The hundred-year-old . . . 112
Margaret was copying . . . 112
A poem about . . . 112
Tropical luxuriance . . . 112
Are Russian cannibals . . . 113
My guardian angel . . . 113
The old farmer . . . 113
O witches, O poverty! . . . 113
Once I knew . . . 114
Thousands of old . . . 114
A century of gathering . . . 114
The time of minor . . . 115
Lots of people . . . 115
My father loved . . . 115
Someone shuffles by . . . 116
My Secret Identity Is 115
from The Book of Gods and Devils
The Little Pins of Memory 119
St. Thomas Aquinas 119
A Letter 121
Factory 122
Shelley 123
The Devils 125
Crepuscule with Nellie 126
Two Dogs 128
Evening Talk 128
The Betrothal 129
Frightening Toys 130
The Big War 131
Death, the Philosopher 132
First Thing in the Morning 132
The White Room 133
Winter Sunset 134
The Pieces of the Clock Lie Scattered 135
The Immortal 135
At the Corner 137
Cabbage 137
The Initiate 138
Paradise 141
In the Library 142
The Wail 143
The Scarecrow 143
Windy Evening 144
from Hotel Insomnia
Evening Chess 147
The City 147
Stub of a Red Pencil 148
The Prodigal 148
Hotel Insomnia 149
The Inanimate Object 150
Outside Biaggis Funeral Home 151
The Tiger 151
Clouds Gathering 153
Folk Songs 154
War 154
A Book Full of Pictures 155
Evening Walk 155
Hotel Starry Sky 156
To Think Clearly 157
The Chair 157
Missing Child 158
Marinas Epic 158
Lost Glove 160
Romantic Sonnet 161
Beauty 161
My Quarrel with the Infinite 162
The Old World 163
Country Fair 163
from A Wedding in Hell
Miracle Glass Co. 167
Late Arrival 167
Tattooed City 168
Dream Avenue 169
Haunted Mind 169
Paradise Motel 170
A Wedding in Hell 171
The Dead in Photographs 171
Madame Thebes 172
Evening Visitor 173
The Massacre of the Innocents 173
Pascals Idea 174
The Clocks of the Dead 175
Wanted Poster 175
Explaining a Few Things 176
The Supreme Moment 176
Crazy About Her Shrimp 177
Transport 178
Love Flea 178
What I Overheard 179
Leaves 180
Paper Dolls Cut Out of a Newspaper 180
Reading History 181
Psalm 182
Empires 183
Romantic Landscape 183
Mystics 184
Imported Novelties 185
Via del Tritone 186
Shaving 187
Trailer Park 187
The Tower 188
The Secret 189
from Walking the Black Cat
Mirrors at 4 a.m. 193
Relaxing in a Madhouse 193
Emilys Theme 194
Cameo Appearance 195
The Friends of Heraclitus 196
An Address with Exclamation Points 197
What the Gypsies Told My Grandmother While She Was Still a Young Girl 197
Little Unwritten Book 198
Have You Met Miss Jones? 199
Charm School 200
Ghosts 201
Café Paradiso 202
At the Cookout 203
Pastoral Harpsichord 204
Entertaining the Canary 205
Slaughterhouse Flies 206
Blood Orange 206
October Light 207
Sunsets Coloring Book 207
Late Train 208
Club Midnight 208
Late Call 209
Against Winter 210
The Emperor 211
from Jackstraws
The Voice at 3 a.m. 215
The Soul Has Many Brides 215
The Common Insects of America 216
De Occulta Philosophia 216
Mother Tongue 217
El libro de la sexualidad 218
Mummys Curse 218
In the Street 219
Filthy Landscape 220
Prison Guards Silhouetted Against the Sky 220
Jackstraws 221
School for Visionaries 222
Ambiguitys Wedding 222
Ancient Divinities 223
Obscurely Occupied 224
Head of a Doll 224
On the Meadow 225
Empty Rocking Chair 226
Three Photographs 226
The Toy 227
Talking to the Ceiling 229
Mystic Life 232
from Night Picnic
Past-Lives Therapy 237
Couple at Coney Island 237
Unmade Beds 238
Sunday Papers 239
Cherry Blossom Time 240
People Eating Lunch 240
The One to Worry About 241
The Improbable 242
My Father Attributed Immortality to Waiters 243
The Altar 243
And Then I Think 244
Views from a Train 244
Icaruss Dog 245
Book Lice 246
Three Doors 246
For the Very Soul of Me 247
Car Graveyard 248
Wooden Church 249
In Praise of Worms 250
The Lives of the Alchemists 250
from My Noiseless Entourage
Description of a Lost Thing 255
Self-Portrait in Bed 255
To Dreams 256
My Noiseless Entourage 257
Used Clothing Store 258
Voyage to Cythera 258
Used Book Store 259
Battling Grays 260
Sunlight 260
Minds Roaming 261
Talk Radio 261
My Turn to Confess 262
On the Farm 262
Snowy Morning Blues 263
To Fate 264
Sweetest 264
The Tragic Sense of Life 265
In the Planetarium 266
The Absentee Landlord 266
My Wife Lifts a Finger to Her Lips 267
Pigeons at Dawn 268
from That Little Something
Walking 271
That Little Something 271
Night Clerk in a Roach Hotel 272
Waiting for the Sun to Set 273
House of Cards 273
Aunt Dinah Sailed to China 274
To Laziness 275
Listen 275
Encyclopedia of Horror 276
Dance of the Macabre Mice 277
The Lights Are On Everywhere 278
Memories of the Future 278
In the Junk Store 279
Madmen Are Running the World 279
In the Afternoon 280
Prophesy 280
A Row of High Windows 281
Secret History 281
Wire Hangers 282
Labor and Capital 283
The Bather 283
Eternities 284
Eternitys Orphans 287
from Master of Disguises
Master of Disguises 291
Nineteen Thirty-eight 291
Preachers Warn 292
Old Man 293
Nancy Jane 294
Carrying On Like a Crow 295
Driving Home 295
Sightseeing in the Capital 296
Daughters of Memory 296
In That Big House 297
Puppet Maker 298
Summer Storm 298
The Melon 299
The Lovers 299
The Empress 300
The Toad 301
Summer Light 302
The Invisible 302
from The Voice at 3:00 a.m.
Postcard from S. 311
Empty Barbershop 311
Grayheaded Schoolchildren 312
Serving Time 313
Autumn Sky 314
Separate Truths 314
Late September 315
New Poems
Im Charles 319
Things Need Me 319
One-Man Circus 320
Lingering Ghosts 320
Ventriloquist Convention 321
The Future 322
Softly 323
The Starry Sky 323
Solitude in Hotels 324
In the Egyptian Wing of the Museum 325
Grandpas Spells 325
Trouble Coming 326
Nothing Else 327
The Foundlings 327
Strange Feast 328
In a Dark House 328