New and Collected Poems by Parini, Jay -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Other Books by Jay Parini Title Page Dedication Contents Author’s Note New Poems: West Mountain Epilogue (2006–2015)

The Language of Mines

Spring Snow Over the River West Mountain Epilogue Home A Knock at Midnight His Morning Meditations Snowday in Pittston A Dream of Stones Lackawanna Rail A Night in the Field Happy Hour In the Library After Hours Some Effects of Global Warming in Lackawanna County Below Zero The Language of Mines

The Grammar of Affection

Historiography 101 The Grammar of Affection To Ezra Pound Song and Skin Unpatriotic Gore The Lost Poems Toward a Poetics of the Next Generation Poem with Allusions Lend an Ear Hunch Revolutionary Days Bitch My Tongue At the Opening Ars Poetica Woman by the Way The Interruption of Summer A Single Page

Ordinary Time

Magi Heat Lightning Belief Sisters of No Mercy Midrash Aristotle in the Middle Ages The Poor at Heart The Dissolution Ordinary Time Creed God’s Operation on Adam The Insomniac Thinks of God Dead Reckoning Lament of the Middle Man Spring Burials Eternal Tailor Do Lord Remember Old Frogs Blessings

from The Art of Subtraction (1998–2005)

After the Terror The Prophets The Lost Soldiers Occupied Country Sleeping Through the Storm Listening to the BBC World Service Late at Night The President Eats Breakfast Alone Democracy Fish-Eye View Peaches High School Family Reunion Covenant in April Old Teams Rise The Broken Neck Leo The Trees Are Gone Borges in Scotland Mind Power Stations Near Old Meldrum, After a Funeral The Crucifixion Late Thoughts The Art of Subtraction

from House of Days (1989–1998)

Stars Falling Swimming After Thoughts Rain Before Nightfall The Lake House in Autumn Willow Song The Discipline of Seeing A Killing Frost Who Owns the Land? Nature Revisited House of Days The Lost Scent At School Keyser Valley: 1963 To My Father in Late September The Crow-Mother Tells All The Small Ones Leave Us New Morning Adrift Demonial House on Fire The Ruined House A Conversation in Oxford Good Friday in Amalfi Still Life Near Pitlochry I Was There

from Town Life (1983–1988)

The Mariner Syrinx The Visitors Differentiation Crops History Goodnight, Goodnight In the Sphere of Common Duty Reading Through the Night Skiing Home at Dusk Town Life Suburban Swamp The Function of Winter A Lost Topography Passing Through Vermont on Three Martinis America Portrait of the Artist as an Old Man Portrait of the Artist Underground Divine Parameters Solstice, Entering Capricorn This Kampuchea At the Ice Cream Parlor Grandmother in Heaven At the Ruined Monastery in Amalfi

from Anthracite Country (1975–1982)

The Sabine Farm Beginning the World Walking the Trestle Playing in the Mines 1913 The Missionary Visits Our Church in Scranton The Miner’s Wake Coal Train Tanya Snake Hill Working the Face The Lackawanna at Dusk Anthracite Country The Rain School The Salt Lick Learning to Swim Berry-Picking The Sea Lily Amores (After Ovid) In the Meadow Seasons of the Skin Swimming in Late September Winter of the Dog This Scrying To His Dear Friend, Bones Sleepers Her Sadness After the Summer Heroes This Reaping Skater in Blue Summer People Black Week Illimitable Kingdom Near Aberdeen High Gannet

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