Passing through: the later poems, new and selected

From The testing-tree (1971) Journal for My Daughter

An Old Cracked Tune

The Portrait

The Magic Curtain

After the Last Dynasty

The Illumination

Robin Redbreast

River Road

Summer Solstice (Mandelstam)

Tristia (Mandelstam)

The Mound Builders

The Customs Collector's Report

The Gladiators

The System

Around Pastor Bonhoeffer

Bolsheviks (Stolzenberg)

Three Floors

The Flight of Apollo

King of the River

The Mulch

Indian Summer at Land's End

Cleopatra (Akhmatova)

Dante (Akhmatova)

Boris Pasternak (Akhmatova)

The Artist

The Testing-Tree

The Game

From The layers in The poems of Stanley Kunitz 1928-1978. The Knot

What of the Night?

Quinnapoxet

Words for the Unknown Makers

The Catch

The Crystal Cage

Signs and Portents

Firesticks

The Lincoln Relics

Meditations on Death (Ungaretti)

The Quarrel

The Unquiet Ones

My Sisters

Route Six

The Layers

From Next-to-last things (1985). The Snakes of September

The Abduction

Raccoon Journal

The Old Darned Man

The Scene

The Image-Maker

Lamplighter: 1914

Day of foreboding

Three small parables for my poet friends

The round

Passing through

The long boat

The wellfleet whale

New poems. My mother's pears

Chariot

In the dark house

Halley's comet

Hornworm: summer reverie

Hornworm: autumn lamentation

h The sea, that has no ending ...

Proteus

Touch me.