CONTENTS
TITLE PAGE
COPYRIGHT NOTICE
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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