Owner of the House by Simpson, Louis -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Title Page Copyright Dedication Contents New Poems 1: The Listeners

The Long Afternoon Nero in Love A Letter from Brazil An Old Building on Hudson Street The Appointment An Orchid The Listeners The Willies

2: Life Itself

Inspiration A Wandering Life The Blue Coast Lilies of the Field All Sorts of Things The Floor Lamp “He’s asleep” In Country Houses Country Doctor The Fence At Journey’s End Foursome Wash, Dry, and Fold Any Time Now Sanctuary Road Kaimana Beach

3: The Owner of the House

Peter’s Dream A Walk with Goethe A Walk with Bashō Confessions of a Professor of English A Farewell to His Muse Footnotes to Fodor’s Spain Homeless Men In the Alpha Cradle Reading the Times The Wow! Factor Driving A Shearling Coat Graduation Variations on a Theme by Shostakovich At the Church Door The Children’s Choir Grand Forks The Owner of the House

from The Arrivistes: Poems 1940–1949

Arm in Arm Lazarus Convalescent Summer Storm A Witty War Carentan O Carentan Song: “Rough Winds Do Shake the Darling Buds of May”

from Good News of Death and Other Poems 1955

As Birds Are Fitted to the Boughs A Woman Too Well Remembered The Man Who Married Magdalene Memories of a Lost War The Heroes The Battle The Ash and the Oak West Early in the Morning

from A Dream of Governors 1959

I Dreamed that in a City Dark as Paris A Dream of Governors To the Western World Hot Night on Water Street The Boarder Orpheus in America Music in Venice Côte d’Azur The Runner The Bird The Silent Generation The Lover’s Ghost The Goodnight

from At the End of the Open Road 1963

In California In the Suburbs The Redwoods There Is Summer Morning Birch The Morning Light The Cradle Trap A Story About Chicken Soup The Troika Frogs My Father in the Night Commanding No American Poetry The Inner Part On the Lawn at the Villa The Riders Held Back Wind, Clouds, and the Delicate Curve of the World Walt Whitman at Bear Mountain

from Selected Poems 1965

Stumpfoot on 42nd Street After Midnight

from Adventures of the Letter I 1971

Dvonya A Son of the Romanovs Meyer The Country House A Night in Odessa Isidor Indian Country The Climate of Paradise American Dreams The Photographer Vandergast and the Girl On a Disappearance of the Moon Port Jefferson A Friend of the Family The Foggy Lane Sacred Objects Trasimeno The Peat-Bog Man The Silent Piano

from Searching for the Ox 1976

Venus in the Tropics Dinner at the Sea-View Inn The Springs at Gadara The Hour of Feeling The Mannequins The Middleaged Man Baruch Searching for the Ox The Street Big Dream, Little Dream Before the Poetry Reading

from Caviar at the Funeral 1980

Working Late Sway American Classic The Beaded Pear The Ice Cube Maker The Old Graveyard at Hauppauge Why Do You Write About Russia? Typhus The Art of Storytelling The Pawnshop Caviar at the Funeral Chocolates Armidale Out of Season The Mexican Woman Back in the States

from The Best Hour of the Night 1983

Physical Universe How to Live on Long Island Quiet Desperation The Previous Tenant The Eleventh Commandment Periodontics Ed Akhmatova’s Husband Reflections in a Spa In a Time of Peace The Unwritten Poem

from In the Room We Share 1990

Riverside Drive Numbers and Dust Another Boring Story The People Next Door White Oxen Waiting in the Service Station A Bramble Bush Sea of Grass

from There You Are 1995

The Choir Master’s Evening Party Suddenly Al and Beth There You Are Viet-Cong Remembering the Sixties The Believer The Dental Assistant The Walker on Main Street Stairs Working Out The Indian Student Old Field Stories August Her Weekend in the Country Patsy Honeymoon An Academic Story After a Light Snowfall Shoo-FIy Pie Like a Glass of Tea A Clearing

Index of Titles Acknowledgments About the Author Colophon

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