Selected poems, 1950-2012

tIntroduction tStorm warnings

Aunt Jennifer's tiger

Air without incense

Afterward

The uncle speaks in the drawing room

An unsaid word

At a Bach concert

The springboard

For the conjunction of two planets

Living in sin

The snow queen

A walk by the Charles

The middle-aged

The diamond cutters

The knight

September 21

Snapshots of a daughter-in-law

Antinous: the diaries

The afterwake

A marriage in the 'sixties

Ghost of a chance

Prospective immigrants please note

The roofwalker

Necessities of life

In the woods

The corpse-plant

The trees

Like this together

After dark

"I am in danger-sir"

Not like that

The knot

Moth hour

Focus

Face to face

Orion

Holding out

In the evening

5:30 A.M.

The key

Abnegation

To Frantz Fanon

On edges

Nightbreak

Leaflets

Planetarium

The burning of paper instead of children

I dreaM, I'm the death of Orpheus

The blue ghazals

Our whole life

The stelae

The will to change

Images for Godard

A valediction forbidding mourning

Trying to talk with a man

When we dead awaken

Waking in the dark

Incipience

The stranger

Song

Diving into the wreck

The phenomenology of anger

Merced

Living in the cave

For the dead

From a survivor

From an old house in America

The fact of a doorframe

Power

Phantasia for Elvira Shatayev

Splittings

To a poet

Cartographies of silence

Twenty-one love poems

A woman dead in her forties

Transcendental Etude

Integrity

Transit

For memory

For Ethel Rosenberg

Sources

North American time

Dreams before waking

Upcountry

Poetry: I

Poetry: III

Yom Kippur 1984

Solfeggietto

Delta

6/21

Dreamwood

Living memory

An atlas of the difficult world

Tattered Kaddish

Darklight

Final notions

What kinds of times are these

In those years

Calle Vision

Take

Late Ghazal

From Pierced darkness

The art of translation

For an anniversary

Midnight salvage

Shattered head

Camino real

Saven skins

Regardless

Fox

Noctilucent clouds

If your name is on the list

Terza Rima

Rauschenberg's bed

Waiting for you at the mystery spot

Centaur's requiem

Equinox

Tell me

The school among the ruins

The evening let's

The eye

The is no one story and one story only

Transparencies

Memorize this

Screen door

Calibrations

Skeleton key

Behind the motel

Archaic

Long after Stevens

Hubble photgraphs: after Sappho

Director's notes

Ever, again

Telephone ringing in the labyrinth

Waiting for rain, for music

Reading the Iliad (as if) for the first time

Turbulence

Tonight no poetry will serve

Axel Avakar

Axel: backstory

Axel, in thunder

I was there, Axel

Axel, darkly seen, in a glass house

Ballade of the poverties

Emergency clinic

You, again

Powers of Recuperation

Itinerary

Tracings

Endpapers

Adrienne Rich's notes on the poems

Index of Titles and first lines.