Table of Contents
From Sunrise (1980)
1968 3
The Soul Mate 6
Sunrise 8
To Robert Lowell and Osip Mandelstam 22
Men and Woman 24
Fucking 29
What One Must Contend With 32
Robert Kennedy 35
From These Days (1989)
Scotland 39
Flame 42
Our Gods 43
That Fall 44
A Dimpled Cloud 45
The Blue-Eyed Doe 48
From My Tokyo (1993)
Hair in a Net 55
The Ritz, Paris 57
Glory 58
Sonnet 59
Burkina Faso 60
Pol Pot 61
Stroke 63
My Tokyo 65
From Going Fast (1998)
Midnight 69
Prayer 70
The Night Sky 71
The Stars Above the Empty Quarter 72
Contents Under Pressure 73
At Gracie Mansion 74
Mood Indigo 76
Spring 77
Dune Road, Southampton 78
In Memoriam 80
Anyone with the Wish 81
A Gallop to Farewell 82
A Vampire in the Age of AIDS 84
Another Muse 85
Spin 87
Eisenhower Years 88
Vermont 90
Racine 91
Milan 93
A Pretty Girl 95
Going Fast 99
From The Cosmos Poems (2000)
Into the Emptiness 109
Invisible Dark Matter 111
From Life on Earth (2001)
Frederick Seidel 115
From Ooga-Booga (2006)
Kill Poem 119
Violin 123
Homage to Pessoa 124
Fog 125
A Red Flower 127
The Owl You Heard 128
E-mail from an Owl 129
Dante's Beatrice 130
Bologna 132
Cloclo 136
Barbados 138
Climbing Everest 142
Broadway Melody 144
The Black-Eyed Virgins 145
Eurostar 146
Drinking in the Daytime 147
The Death of the Shah 149
From Evening Man (2008)
Boys 157
"Sii romantico, Seidel, tanto per cambiare" 160
Bipolar November 161
Italy 163
Mu'allaqa 165
Evening Man 169
Poem by the Bridge at Ten-Shin 170
From Nice Weather (2012)
Night 177
Store Windows 178
Downtown 180
Before Air-Conditioning 181
Midterm Election Results, 2010 182
Snow 184
Charlie 185
Arnold Toynbee, Mac Bundy, Hercules Bellville 187
Nice Weather 189
London 190
Mount Street Gardens 191
One Last Kick for Dick 193
From Widening Income Inequality (2016)
Remembering Elaine's 197
City 199
France Now 200
Robespierre 202
A Problem with the Landing Gear 203
Autumn Leaves 204
The Bird on the Crocodile's Back 206
The Lovely Redhead 208
Man in Slicker 213
The End of Summer 215
Karl 217
Sunset at Swan Lake 219
Polio Days 220
Me 221
Widening Income Inequality 223
From Peaches Goes It Alone (2018)
Athena 229
Too Much 232
The Ezra Pound Look-Alike 234
Miss Charlotte 236
And now good-morrow to our waking souls 238
In Late December 239
England Now 241
Generalissimo Francisco Franco Is Still Dead 243
Ducati Years, Ducati Days 245
Epithalamion for Stein and Stein 246
To Mac Griswold 247
Near the New Whitney 249
Autumn 251
Quand vous serez bien vieille 253
Barbara Epstein 254
Verdant Valley 256
One of the Bridesmaids 258
Hymn to Aphrodite 259
The Blue Suit 262
Surf's Up 264
Index of Titles and First Lines 269