The best of it: new and selected poems
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Grove Press
Publication Date
c2010
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
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From the Book - 1st ed.
New poems. Odd blocks The edges of time Bait goat Train-track figure We're building the ship as we sail it Virga Dogleg Cloud Ledge Stations Repetition The pharaohs Pentimenti Bitter pill Polish and balm Retroactive Galápago Finish Shift Easter Island Cut out for it Spiderweb Still life with lemons, oranges and a rose After Zeno
Flamingo watching 1994. Flamingo watching This life Extraordinary lengths Every painting by Chagall The tables freed Leaving spaces Periphery The mock ruin Is it modest? The things of the world Emptiness Slant Apology Vacation A certain kind of Eden No rest for the idle The narrow path When fishing fails Say it straight Glass slippers How successful can she afford to be? Repetition Les natures profondement bonnes sont toujours indécises So different Half a loaf Soft Spring I marveled at how generally I was aided Impersonal A certain meanness of culture The test we set ourself Force Miners' canaries The hinge of spring Deer Sheep in wolves' clothing Snake charm The palm at the end of the mind Poetry is a kind of money Persiflage Masterworks of Ming Breast birds Paired things Osprey Turtle
Elephant rocks 1996. Living with stripes Doubt Mirage oases Cirque Chemistry That vase of lilacs Connections Dew Lacquer artist All shall be restored Full measure Stars of Bethlehems Crib Bestiary How birds sing How a thought thinks Intention If the moon happened once New clothes Simply by growing larger To the young anglerfish Crustacean Island Imaginary Eskimos Outsider art Caught Les petites confitures Why isn't it all more marked Witness Learning Apogee Against gravity Lacunae Intransigence Age Counsel Insult Silence A cat/a future Hope Losses The cabinet of curiosities Her politeness Bad patch Swept up whole Any morning Relief Part Midas The woman who wrote too much Sonnet to spring A plain ordinary steel needle can float on pure water Distance The vessel and the cup Wooden The second Heat Poetry in translation If she only had one minute Elephant rocks
Say uncle 2000. Say uncle Corners Star block Mockingbird A hundred bolts of satin The excluded animals Blandeur Composition Patience Coming and going Nothing ventured That will to divest Winter fear Grazing horses Waste Forgetting The fourth wise man Beasts Gaps The fabric of life Help The pass The pieces that fall to earth Don't look back It's always darkest just before the dawn Blunt Diamonds Herring The silence islands Cheshire Yeses Great thoughts Test Crown Bad day Among English verbs Lime light Why we must struggle Drops in the bucket The job Dutch Chemise Deferred silence Attention Failure Matrigupta Weakness and doubt Failure 2 Two more, and up goes the donkey Water under the bridge Your face will stick And all becomes as before
The Niagara River 2005. The Niagara River
Home to roost
Carrying a ladder
Sharks' teeth
Weak forces
The elephant in the room
A ball rolls on a point
The best of it
Chinese foot chart
Shipwreck
The other shoe
Atlas
He lit a fire with icicles
Rats' tails
Added significance
Chop
Felix crow
Desert reservoirs
Hailstorm
Expectations
Green hills
Rubbing lamps
Tenderness and rot
Tar babies
Tired blood
Theft
Ideal audience
Caps
Thin
Stardust
Blue China doorknob
Salvage
The light of interiors
Things shouldn't be so hard
The past
Reverse drama
Fake spots
Legerdemain
Hide and seek
Post-construction
Least action
Chart
No names
The material
The well or the cup
Late justice
Backward miracle
Green behind the ears
Thieves
Lighthouse keeping
Tune.
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9780802119148
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