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Cover Half Title Page Title Page Copyright Dedication Contents from The New Body (1975)

Two Flute Songs Wolf At the Laundromat The History of Roses Resolutions Coming Back for Help Music At 7 A.M., Watching the Cars on the Bridge How to Close the Great Distance between People Sunset Trapped Secrets For a Moment In the New World

from The Freedom of History (1988)

Today’s Meditation (It’s Not Supposed to Last Forever) Today’s Meditation (Happiness) Today’s Meditation Today’s Meditation (Travel: Ravenna) A Summer Afternoon, Venice Today’s Meditation (The Crucifixion) The Freedom of History Winter Smoke Snow Details from the August Heat: Your Rape One Year Later Here, Too, There Is a Paradise Rothko Matisse’s Dance Terror’s Only Epitaph In Rain What the Bird Sees Giving Away Love London: 33, the Last Movement, the Longest Day All the Raised Arms The Poet of Minsk For You

from The Long Experience of Love (1995)

The Long Experience of Love Queen Elizabeth on TV To Wish It Goodnight After My Father’s Death The Young Men The Portrait Hold Up Winter Try Thinking of Death This Way, Boy Think of the World as a Week Alone With Timmy, In and Out of Prison 6:30 A.M., the Sounds of Traffic January 1, the Beach Preparing for Fifty The Task at Hand In the Café: the Grown Daughter Freshman Papers Near Herons In Rome, I Ran the Tiber Six Days with Fra Filippo Lippi’s Frescoes in the Duomo at Spoleto At Fifty

from Writing with Tagore: Homages and Variations (2003)

Writing with Tagore (1, 2, 3)

from Lightning at Dinner (2005)

You Are Human Brief Lives Given Your Species Brief Lives: Warning When I Was a Boy I Was Pompeii Brief Lives: Vacation Lighter Now I Don’t Think We Need to Know Brief Lives: Forgive Him It Is Not the Fact That I Will Die That I Mind, Lightning at Dinner Blood Harmony Learning a New Language 8:03 P.M. It Is the Hour Red Poppy, Almost Dark under an Olive Tree Pointless Teaching the Dog Not to Nip What to Write When a Landscape Is Too Beautiful At Night We Read Aloud The Aeneid On the Train to Venice Against Empire Soon What It’s Like Here Christ Resurrected Self-Portrait Doing T’ai Chi in Chinatown, 7 A.M. It Last Night at Dinner When the Dog Is Sick Get Used to It, Being It Is Hard Not to Love the World, Happiness Crickets Well Begun Late/Later/Latest Strange World At Least On That Day What Do I Look Like?

from Invisible Strings (2011)

Love in the Ruins Epitaph Almost Sixty On This Cloudy May Day Those Others Five Charms in Praise of Bewilderment How We Got Used The Tempest: Act 2 (Scene 2 Ends) Birthday First the Good News: All That Talk of the Moon In the Long Afterward Waiting to Take Off After Dinner Midnight and the Low Sound of Water Three Days in Spoleto Blood in Our Headlights, Car Wrecked, the Boar Dead Sleeping with Mona Lisa Triumphs Trying to Leave Saint Paul The Four Stages of Love Above All, Don’t Forget Instead of Calm Of All Places Poem without an Ending Moonlight Shining Barely Her Joy Homefront In the Shadow of the Rod and Reel Club Thanksgiving If I Could Have Been a Buddhist, Nebraska Fragments Disappearing in America Last Night I Dreamed That Man, the One When All Else Fails There Goes That Little Mutt from Down the Street Anniversary Examples Not Taking It Personally My Fame Blizzard Her Bitterness Makes Sense— True Enough, Pigeons in a Black Sky, On the Day After Gradually, That Half-Smile After Life My Swallows Again

Twenty Questions: New Poems (2014)

Twenty Questions In My Dream Last Sunday Afternoon Be Careful, Keep It Ars Poetica At the Met Insomnia I Kept Hoping There Might Be an Easier Way, My Sentence: Today I Do Know It 29 Stillnesses Dark Eye I Drank Three Glasses of Montefalco Red, Variations on a Poem by Du Fu Yesterday Late Summer Slowly Insisting Underground Meanwhile, Life: A Disappearance

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