Making Certain It Goes On by Hugo, Richard -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Dedication Publisher’s Note Contents Introduction A Run of Jacks [1961]

Trout Near Kalalock Bass West Marginal Way Lone Cheer from the Stands for a Bitter Crane Underwater Autumn La Push The Gull Hardly Explained Triangle for Green Men Beachthieves North Or Another Place Resulting from Magnetic Interference Alki Beach Meridian Keen to Leaky Flowers Antisocial Easter Back of Gino’s Place A Troubadour Removed Ocean on Monday Snoqualmie A District in the City Schoolgirl at Seola A Map of the Peninsula Gooseprairie Argo Ballad of the Upper Bumping Centuries Near Spinnazola Cape Alava Skykomish River Running Mission in Carmel Kapowsin Graves at Mukilteo A Chapel Further West than Most Politely like Snakes in the Oats Name the Mystery Fin and Win a Doll 1614 Boren Bassetti’s Lions Memoirs Lecture Neighbor Duwamish Holy Family Northwest Retrospective: Mark Tobey Digging Is An Art Orcas in the Eyes The Way a Ghost Behaves No Bells to Believe Two Graves in a Day At the Stilli’s Mouth The Way a Ghost Dissolves

Death of the Kapowsin Tavern [1965]

Duwamish, Skagit, Hoh

Introduction to the Hoh From the Rain Forest Down Between the Bridges Duwamish No. 2 Bad Vision at the Skagit Plunking the Skagit Hideout Duwamish Head

Other Waters

Tahola Cape Nothing Lone Lake, Whidbey Sweet Piece from Fontal Dancer at Kozani’s Index The Anacortes-Sydney Run Mendocino, Like You Said The Colors of a Bird Lake Byron, Maybe Gordon Lord Road Ends at Tahola

Mission to Linz Limited Access

Eileen What the Brand New Freeway Won’t Go By December 24 and George McBride Is Dead Antiques in Ellettsville The Other Grave Houses Lie, Believe the Lying Sea First South and Cambridge In Stafford Country For a Northern Woman Port Townsend Fort Casey, without Guns One by Twachtman at the Frye Bouquets from Corley The Squatter on Company Land The Church on Comiaken Hill The Blond Road Pike Place Market Graves at Coupeville Death of the Kapowsin Tavern

Good Luck in Cracked Italian [1969]

Where all Doors Open in

Docking at Palermo Napoli Again The Bridge of Sighs Galileo’s Chair Morning in Padova S. Miniato: One by Aretino Tiberio’s Cliff Brueghel in the Doria Castel Sant’Angelo Kennedy Ucciso

Side Trips Back

G.I. Graves in Tuscany A View from Cortona Eighteen Days in a Tuscan Wood Viva La Resistènza April in Cerignola Tretitoli, Where the Bomb Group was Where We Crashed Spinazzola: Quella Cantina Là Note from Capri to Richard Ryan on the Adriatic Floor The Yards of Sarajevo Paestum Galleria Umberto I

Maratea

Maratea Porto The Picnic in the Saracen Ruin Maratea Antica One Son North to Naples Maratea Porto: The Bitter Man Cantina Iannini Pizzeria S. Biagio Maratea Porto: The Dear Postmistress There Maratea Porto: Saying Good-bye to the Vitolos Last Words from Maratea

Remote or Stone

South Italy, Remote and Stone Storm in Acquafredda The Park at Villammare Why Sapri Will Never Be Italian Beggar in Sapri Sailing Dalmatia Remote Farm on the Dubrovnik-Sarajevo Run Spinning the Sava Christmas with Shepherds in Brefaro Italian Town Abandoned Montesano Unvisited With Anna at Camaldoli Sailing from Naples

The Lady in Kicking Horse Reservoir [1973]

Montana with Friends

A Map of Montana in Italy The Milltown Union Bar Where Jennie Used to Swim Where Mission Creek Runs Hard for Joy Graves at Elkhorn St. Ignatius Where the Salish Wail Bad Eyes Spinning the Rock Dog Lake with Paula To Die in Milltown Pishkun Reclamation at Coloma Helena, Where Homes Go Mad Silver Star With Kathy in Wisdom Indian Graves at Jocko

Touring

Drums in Scotland Chysauster Walking Praed Street Somersby The Prado: Bosch: S. Antonio The Prado: Number 2671, Anonimo Español At Cronkhite Upper Voight’s, to all the Cutthroat There Taneum Creek The Gold Man on the Beckler

Touring with Friends

Cataldo Mission Montgomery Hollow The End of Krim’s Pad Old Map of Uhlerstown A Night with Cindy at Heitman’s Point No Point Cornwall, Touring Shark Island The Tinker Camp Cleggan Crinan Canal

Montana

The Lady in Kicking Horse Reservoir Ovando Driving Montana Montana Ranch Abandoned 2433 Agnes, First Home, Last House in Missoula Ghosts at Garnet A Night at the Napi in Browning Camas Prairie School Missoula Softball Tournament Phoning from Sweathouse Creek The Only Bar in Dixon Dixon Hot Springs Bear Paw Degrees of Gray in Philipsburg

What Thou Lovest Well Remains American [1975]

A Snapshot of the Auxiliary

A Snapshot of the Auxiliary Saying Goodbye to Mrs. Noraine A Good Day for Seeing Your Limitations The House on 15th S.W. A Snapshot of 15th S.W. December 24, Alone Remember Graham A History of the Sketch Why I Think of Dumar Sadly Time to Remember Sangster Again, Kapowsin Flying, Reflying, Farming Last Day There Places and Ways to Live What Thou Lovest Well Remains American

Strangers

Goodbye, Iowa Farmer, Dying Living Alone Turtle Lake Late Summer, Drummond Reading at the Old Federal Courts Building, St. Paul Ode to the Trio Fruit Company of Missoula Old Scene Landscapes Reconsidering the Madman The Cripples Invasion North Cattails The Hilltop Changes in Policy at Taholah Indian Girl The Swimmer at Lake Edward Ghost in a Field of Mint Iowa Déjà Vu The Freaks at Spurgin Road Field

Lectures, Soliloquies, Pontifications

Plans for Altering the River Three Stops to Ten Sleep On Hearing a New Escalation Announcement For Jennifer, 6, on the Teton Approaching the Castle Listen, Ripley Graves in Queens Starting Back Keokuk Topographical Map My Buddy The Art of Poetry

31 Letters and 13 Dreams [1977]

Letter to Kizer from Seattle Letter to Bell from Missoula Letter to Sister Madeline from Iowa City In Your Fugitive Dream Letter to Simic from Boulder Letter to Matthews from Barton Street Flats In Your War Dream Letter to Ammons from Maratea Letter to Hanson from Miami In Your Bad Dream Letter to Annick from Boulder Letter to Mantsch from Havre In Your Young Dream Letter to Reed from Lolo Letter to Peterson from the Pike Place Market Letter to Stafford from Poison In Your Small Dream Letter to Hill from St. Ignatius Letter to Wagoner from Port Townsend Letter to Bly from La Push In Your Blue Dream Letter to Libbey from St. Regis Letter to Logan from Milltown In Your Hot Dream Letter to Gale from Ovando Letter to Welch from Browning In Your Racing Dream Letter to Snyder from Montana Letter to Scanlon from Whitehall Letter to Wright from Gooseprairie In Your Wild Dream Letter to Haislip from Hot Springs Letter to Mayo from Missoula Letter to Levertov from Butte In Your Dream on the Eve of Success Letter to Kathy from Wisdom Letter to Goldbarth from Big Fork In Your Big Dream Letter to Birch from Deer Lodge Letter to Oberg from Pony Letter to Blessing from Missoula In Your Dream after Falling in Love Letter to Gildner from Wallace Note to R. H. from Strongsville In Your Good Dream

White Center [1980]

Museum of Cruel Days After a Train Trip, One Town Remains Doing the House Scene Second Chances With Ripley at the Grave of Albert Parenteau With Melissa on the Shore The Ballpark at Moiese Wheel of Fortune Open Country The Other Beaverbank At the Cabin Birthday Repairing the House, the Church, Restoring the Music Leaving the Dream Beaverbank The Towns We Know and Leave Behind, the Rivers We Carry with Us Fort Benton High Grass Prairie Brief History Medicine Bow Overlooking Yale Imagining Delaware A Good View from Flagstaff Port Townsend, 1974 Getty The Small Oil Left in the House We Rented in Boulder At Our Best Graves Dwelling Changes at Meridian Guns at Fort Flagler Fairfield To Women How to Use a Storm How Meadows Trick You Snow Poem The Carnival Inside From Altitude, the Diamonds Bay of Sad Loss Bay of Resolve Bay of Recovery The Sandbanks The River Now Sound Track Conditional Belt Bone Hunting Houses White Center

The Right Madness on Skye [1980]

The Semi-Lunatics of Kilmuir A Snapshot of Uig in Montana A Map of Skye Clachard Greystone Cottage The Clouds of Uig Graves in Uig Hawk in Uig Uig Registrar Piping to You on Skye from Lewis The Clearances Glen Uig Sneosdal Kilmuir Cemetery: The Knight in Blue-Green Relief Kilmuir Cemetery: Stone with Two Skulls and No Name Duntulm Castle Mill at Romesdal Druid Stones at Kensaleyre The Braes St. John’s Chapel Trumpan Langaig Ayr Ferniehirst Castle Culloden The Standing Stones of Callanish Ness Carloway Broch The Cairn in Loch An Duin St. Clement’s: Harris Letter to Garber from Skye Villager The Right Madness on Skye

New Poems

Last Words to James Wright Stone Poems

Green Stone Gold Stone Gray Stone Red Stone Brown Stone Blue Stone

Making Certain it Goes on

Where the House was Elegy O-Mok-See at Nine Mile Tony Distances Here, but Unable to Answer Salt Water Story Ashville Confederate Graves in Little Rock Bannerman’s Island George Stubbs at Yale Pishkun Reservoir Poem for Zen Hofman Death in the Aquarium Making Certain It Goes On

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