CONTENTS

  1. Title Page
  2. Dedication
  3. Acknowledgements
  4. Epigraph
  5.  
  6. from THE SINKING OF CLAY CITY (1979)
  7. Lull
  8. From Lumaghi Mine
  9. Coroner’s Report
  10.  
  11. from MOON IN A MASON JAR (1986)
  12. Moonlight: Chickens on the Road
  13. Heart Attack
  14. The Beliefs of a Horse
  15. Torch Songs
  16. Skull of a Snowshoe Hare
  17. The Sound Barrier
  18. The Glow
  19. The Crèche
  20. Appalonea
  21. The Owl
  22.  
  23. from WHAT MY FATHER BELIEVED (1991)
  24. American Manhood
  25. His Father’s Whistle
  26. Economics
  27. For the Last Summer
  28. Sinatra
  29. C.O.
  30. What My Father Believed
  31. The Overcoat
  32. Ravens at Deer Creek
  33.  
  34. from IN THE BANK OF BEAUTIFUL SINS (1995)
  35. Angels
  36. The Model
  37. A Cappella
  38. The Longing of Eagles
  39. About Language
  40. The Bramble
  41. Cigarettes
  42. To Work
  43. Parents
  44. Poetry
  45. Majestic
  46. Anything the River Gives
  47.  
  48. from REIGN OF SNAKES (1999)
  49. Reign of Snakes
  50. Why Do the Crickets Sing?
  51. Dark Forest
  52. Art
  53. The Pumpkin Tree
  54. More Rain
  55. The Burned Cemetery
  56. Prayer for the Winter
  57. Conjure
  58. Ice Fishing
  59. EARTHLY MEDITATIONS
  60. The Afterlife
  61. Amazing Grace
  62. Meditation at Bedrock Canyon
  63. Night Music
  64. The Name
  65.  
  66. from LIVES OF THE ANIMALS (2003)
  67. The Church of Omnivorous Light
  68. Horseflies
  69. Discretion
  70. Sweetbreads
  71. Affirmations
  72. Do You Love Me?
  73. Explanatory
  74. Thatcher Bitchboy
  75. Clemency
  76. Highway 12, Just East of Paradise
  77. Fish Dreams
  78. Kissing a Horse
  79. Winter Bale
  80. Bridge
  81. The Other World
  82.  
  83. from BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY (2010)
  84. Responsibility
  85. Hay Day
  86. County
  87. I Like the Wind
  88. Progress
  89. Beautiful Country
  90. Do Not Go
  91. Exxon
  92. Every Night the Long Swim
  93. American Fear
  94. After a Rainstorm
  95. Cemetery Moles
  96. What Is Yellow About the Yellow Pine?
  97. A Lock of Her Hair
  98. Campfire
  99. Night Music
  100. Which Last
  101. Wait
  102.  
  103. NEW POEMS
  104. Slow Dreams
  105. Religion
  106. For One Who Prays for Me
  107. The River Itself
  108. A Photograph of Philip Levine
  109. At the Beginning of Another War
  110. Letter to a Young Poet
  111. Civics
  112. Mouth
  113. News
  114. While You Were Out of Town
  115. Morelity
  116. Apology
  117. Mammoth
  118. Babel
  119. Triage
  120. Cenotaph
  121. Soundings
  122. Stop and Listen
  123. Anatomy of Melancholy
  124.  
  125. INDEX OF TITLES AND FIRST LINES
  126. About the Author
  127. Copyright