CONTENTS
In Dreams Begin Responsibilities
from In Dreams Begin Responsibilities
The Ballad of the Children of the Czar
In the Naked Bed, in Plato’s Cave
The Beautiful American Word, Sure
Someone Is Harshly Coughing as Before
Tired and Unhappy, You Think of Houses
A Young Child and His Pregnant Mother
Calmly We Walk through This April’s Day
Dogs Are Shakespearean, Children Are Strangers
I Am to My Own Heart Merely a Serf
The Heavy Bear Who Goes with Me
A Dog Named Ego, the Snowflakes as Kisses
from Vaudeville for a Princess
True Recognition Often Is Refused
Starlight like Intuition Pierced the Twelve
He Heard the Newsboys Shouting “Europe! Europe!”
Such Answers Are Cold Comfort to The Dead
“I Am Cherry Alive,” the Little Girl Sang
Seurat’s Sunday Afternoon along the Seine
from Narcissus: The Mind Is an Ancient and Famous Capital
This Is a Poem I Wrote at Night, before the Dawn
Philology Recapitulates Ontology, Poetry Is Ontology
What Curious Dresses All Men Wear
A Poem For Gertrude’s Birthday
The Isolation of Modern Poetry
The Vocation of the Poet in the Modern World
from T. S. Eliot: A Critical Study
The Reason for Writing this Book