Presentation piece -- Exiles -- She bitches about boys -- from The navigators (I, III, IV, V, VI, X) -- For Elektra -- Elektra on Third Avenue -- The art of the novel -- Before the war -- The sea coming indoors -- Pornographic poem -- Forage Sestina -- Sestina -- Villanelle -- Sisterhood -- Elegy -- Rooms in Bloomsbury -- Aube Provençale -- Crépuscule Provençale -- Untoward occurrence at embassy poetry reading -- A Christmas crown -- The callers -- Somewhere in a turret -- from Separations (I, V, VI, VII, IX, XIV, XVI, XVIII) -- Rhetoric -- Villanelle: late summer -- The companion -- The last time -- After the revolution -- Geographer -- Feeling and form -- The regent's park sonnets -- Living in the moment -- Adult entertainment -- Prayer for my daughter -- 1976 -- Third snowfall.
Iva's pantoum -- The hang-glider's daughter -- Lines declining a transtlantic dinner invitation -- Iva's birthday poem -- Partial analysis -- Why we are going back to Paradise Island -- Shirland Road -- La Fontaine de Vaucluse -- Peterborough -- Home, and I've -- Pantoum -- Canzone -- From Taking notice (I-VII, X, XIII, XIV, XVIII, XIX, XXIII) -- Assumptions. Towards autumn -- Fourteen -- Mother -- Days of 1959 -- Fifteen to eighteen -- 1973 -- Mother II -- Autumn 1980 -- Part of a true story -- A chaplet for Judith Landry -- Sword -- Inheritances -- Graffiti from the Gare Saint-Manqué -- Gerda in the Aerie -- The robber woman -- The little robber girl considers the wide world -- Rune of the Finland woman -- The little robber girl gets on in the wide world -- Ballad of ladies lost and found.
Going back to the river. Two cities -- Nights of 1962: the river merchants' wife -- April interval -- Riposte -- Late August letter -- Country & western -- Country & western II -- Letter from Goose Creek: April -- Nights of 1964-1966: the old reliable -- Elevens -- Late August -- Dear Jool, I miss you in Saint-Saturnin -- Le Travail Rajeunit -- Languedocienne -- For K.J., leaving and coming back -- Celles -- Separate lives -- Days of 1944: three friends -- For Jean Migrenne -- Going back to the river -- Against silence.
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