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• ISBN: 0375503803
• ISBN: 0375755195
• ISBN: 9780375503801
• ISBN: 9780375755194
• Physical Description: 171 pages ; 22 cm
• Publisher: New York : Random House, [2001]
• Copyright: ©2001

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Formatted Contents Note:

From The Apple That Astonished Paris (1988) -- Another Reason Why I Don't Keep a Gun in the House 3 -- Walking Across the Atlantic 4 -- Plight of the Troubadour 5 -- Lesson 6 -- Winter Syntax 7 -- Advice to Writers 8 -- Rival Poet 9 -- Insomnia 10 -- Earthling 11 -- Bar Time 14 -- My Number 15 -- Introduction to Poetry 16 -- Brooklyn Museum of Art 17 -- Schoolsville 18 -- From Questions About Angels (1991) -- American Sonnet 23 -- Questions About Angels 24 -- A History of Weather 26 -- Death of Allegory 27 -- Forgetfulness 29 -- Candle Hat 30 -- Student of Clouds 32 -- Dead 33 -- Man in the Moon 34 -- Wires of the Night 35 -- Vade Mecum 36 -- Not Touching 37 -- History Teacher 38 -- First Reader 39 -- Purity 40 -- Nostalgia 42 -- From The Art of Drowning (1995) -- Consolation 47 -- Osso Buco 49 -- Directions 51 -- Sunday Morning with the Sensational Nightingales 53 -- Best Cigarette 55 -- Days 57 -- Tuesday, June 4, 1991 58 -- Canada 61 -- On Turning Ten 63 -- Workshop 65 -- My Heart 68 -- Budapest 69 -- Dancing Toward Bethlehem 70 -- Monday Morning 71 -- Center 72 -- Design 73 -- Pinup 74 -- Piano Lessons 76 -- Blues 78 -- Man in Space 79 -- Nightclub 80 -- From Picnic, Lightning (1998) -- Fishing on the Susquehanna in July 87 -- To a Stranger Born in Some Distant Country Hundreds of Years from Now 89 -- I Chop Some Parsley While Listening to Art Blakey's Version of "Three Blind Mice" 90 -- Afternoon with Irish Cows 92 -- Marginalia 94 -- Some Days 97 -- Picnic, Lightning 98 -- Morning 100 -- Bonsai 101 -- Shoveling Snow with Buddha 103 -- Snow 105 -- Japan 107 -- Victoria's Secret 109 -- Lines Composed Over Three Thousand Miles from Tintern Abbey 113 -- Paradelle for Susan 116 -- Lines Lost Among Trees 117 -- Taking Off Emily Dickinson's Clothes 119 -- Night House 121 -- Splitting Wood 123 -- Death of the Hat 126 -- Passengers 128 -- Where I Live 130 -- Aristotle 132 -- New Poems -- Dharma 137 -- Reading an Anthology of Chinese Poems of the Sung Dynasty, I Pause to Admire the Length and Clarity of Their Titles 138 -- Snow Day 140 -- Insomnia 142 -- Madmen 144 -- Sonnet 146 -- Idiomatic 147 -- Waitress 148 -- Butterfly Effect 151 -- Serenade 152 -- Three Wishes 154 -- Pavilion 156 -- Movies 158 -- Jealousy 160 -- Tomes 162 -- Man Listening to Disc 164 -- Scotland 166 -- November 168 -- Iron Bridge 169 -- Flight of the Reader 171.

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American poetry.
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