CONTENTS

TITLE PAGE

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FROM GULF MUSIC (2007)

RHYME

IF THE DEAD CAME BACK

GULF MUSIC

VENI, CREATOR SPIRITUS

KEYBOARD

BOOK

JAR OF PENS

OTHER HAND

IMMATURE SONG

THE FORGETTING

LOUIE LOUIE

POEM WITH LINES IN ANY ORDER

POEM OF DISCONNECTED PARTS

EURYDICE AND STALIN

AKHMATOVA’S “SUMMER GARDEN”

THE WAVE

ANTIQUE

FROM THE LAST CANTO OF PARADISE

FROM JERSEY RAIN (2000)

SAMURAI SONG

VESSEL

ODE TO MEANING

ABC

AN ALPHABET OF MY DEAD

THE GREEN PIANO

TO TELEVISION

BIOGRAPHY

THE HAUNTED RUIN

JERSEY RAIN

FROM NEW POEMS IN THE FIGURED WHEEL (1996)

GINZA SAMBA

POEM WITH REFRAINS

HOUSE HOUR

STREET MUSIC

SOOT

THE DAY DREAMERS

THE CITY DARK

THE ICE-STORM

INCANTATION

SONG ON PORCELAIN

IF YOU COULD WRITE ONE GREAT POEM

IMPOSSIBLE TO TELL

FROM THE WANT BONE (1990)

THE WANT BONE

SHIRT

FROM THE CHILDHOOD OF JESUS

LAMENT FOR THE MAKERS

WINDOW

THE HEARTS

ICICLES

THE NIGHT GAME

AN OLD MAN

SONNET

THE REFINERY

THE UNCREATION

AT PLEASURE BAY

FROM HISTORY OF MY HEART (1984)

THE FIGURED WHEEL

THE CHANGES

HISTORY OF MY HEART

THE SAVING

THE QUESTIONS

DYING

THE GARDEN

THE NEW SADDHUS

THE STREET

FROM AN EXPLANATION OF AMERICA (1979)

LAIR

from AN EXPLANATION OF AMERICA

PART TWO, I. A Love of Death

PART TWO, III. Horace, Epistulae I, xvi

PART TWO, IV. Filling the Blank

PART THREE, I. Braveries

MEMORIAL

FROM SADNESS AND HAPPINESS (1975)

POEM ABOUT PEOPLE

from AN ESSAY ON PSYCHIATRISTS xx. Peroration, Concerning Genius

FIRST EARLY MORNINGS TOGETHER

SADNESS AND HAPPINESS

NOTES

ALSO BY ROBERT PINSKY

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