Is Music by Taggart, John -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Note to Reader Dedication Contents Listening to John by C.D. Wright from ORIGIN, THIRD SERIES 1969

The Drum Thing Lester Young Pursued by Meteors & Other Personages of the Night Position

from TO CONSTRUCT A CLOCK 1971

Ricercar The Room Eroded Rock, 1942

from PRISM AND THE PINE TWIG 1977

Good-bye

from PEACE ON EARTH 1981

Slow Song for Mark Rothko Giant Steps Peace on Earth

from LOOP 1991

Sumac Babble Babble “Beware” The Lily Alone Were You Nativity Never Too Late Against the Nurses of Experience Orange Berries Dark Green Leaves In True Night The Rothko Chapel Poem Monk Marvin Gaye Suite Not Quite Parallel Lines Poem Beginning with a Line by Traherne Reflexive At Arrowhead

from CROSSES POEMS 1992–1998 2005

A Number of Times Sainte-Chapelle Precious Lord In Croce

from STANDING WAVE 1993

Three Words from Thomas Bernhard All the Steps Standing Wave

from PASTORELLES 2004

Thales the Milesian/In a Time of Drought William Bronk Henry David Thoreau/Sonny Rollins Magdalene Poem In the Kitchen Call Pastorelle 7 Rhythm and Blues Singer The Compulsion to Repeat Pastorelle 8 Moonrise At the Counters Ball Car Museum Parmenides/Fragments 3 and 15a Pastorelle 14 Pastorelle 15 Kitaj Dancer Why Trees Weep Plinth

from THERE ARE BIRDS 2008

Refrains for Robert Quine Odor of Quince Grey Scale/Zukofsky Show and Tell/Robert Creeley

NEW WORK

Kitaj Angels

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