I. Away : Vanishing point -- Walking across the Atlantic -- The blue -- Schoolsville -- Driving with animals -- Strange lands -- Tuscany -- Tourist: Dromahair, Co. Sligo -- Flying to a funeral -- Etymology -- Hunger -- Hart crane -- Winter syntax -- Plight of the troubadour -- The Frankenstein poet -- Lost -- The past -- Fur -- Flames -- II. Home : Books -- On closing Anna Karenina -- Indoors -- Death -- Remembering dreams -- Earthling -- Child development -- Putting down the cat -- The lesson -- Lowell, Mass. -- Programs -- The morning after my death -- Personal history -- Bar time -- Insomnia -- Another reason why I don't keep a gun in the house -- Cancer -- Embrace -- The rival poet -- My number -- Poem -- Hopeless but not serious -- Advice to writers -- Introduction to poetry -- Desire -- The Brooklyn Museum of Art.
|
