CONTENTS
Acknowledgements
Introduction
A Note on the Text
Train Rides
I Cambridge and New York
1 Name & Nature
2 Drill Poem
3 Getting Ready To Come Back Here
4 [‘Your smell’]
5 [‘You turn’]
6 Early Morning, Night Sorting Shift
7 [‘Young men from old poets should learn’]
8 The Lunatic
9 [‘All across this country standing’]
10 [‘Daily, and’]
A note on the train, January 1966
Loved Litter of Time Spent
The Americans
Numbers Are Adjectives: Counting Cats
A Judy
The Elders
What Spokes, and to What Hub?
A Spring Song
On Romney Marsh
Second Song in Spring
An Invocation: To Snow For
The Daffodil on my Table
The City Rises
The Evening’s Occupation
The Joke
Poem
Some Other Occasion: Joan’s
The American Valentine
Privy Business xi
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