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The Last Judgment 283 Some Flowers 285 2002, Alas 286 Song of Imperfection 286 Post-Surgery Song 287 Hot News, Stale News 288 How I Got Ted Roethke’s Raccoon-Skin Coat 289 Prophecy I 289 Stowaway 290 Hermaphrodites in the Garden 291 Hannibal Crossing the Alps 292 The Poet 293 To Alexander Fu On His Beginning and 13th Birthday 293 Alexander’s First Battle 295 Alexander Fu to Stanley 295 Letter to Alexander Fu, Seven Years Old 296 April, Beijing 297 Dog 298 On Trying to Remember Two Chinese Poems 299 Stations 300 Lost Daughter 301 Shoes 302 Song for Stanley Kunitz 302 Lowell 304 Krill 305 The Battle 306 You and I 307 Song of Introduction 307 Mon Père, Elegy for Paul Celan 308 The Altar 311 Lines for a Stammering Turkish Poet 312 The Public Gardens of Munich 314 The Miscarriage 316 The Inheritance 317 New Moon 319 The Poor of Venice 320 The Hawk, the Serpents and the Cloud 321 The Lace Makers 321 The Geographer 323 The Debt 325 For Margaret 327 The Decadent Poets of Kyoto 328 Following the Saints 329
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Sailing from the United States 330 And Now There Is No Place to Look 331 Nicky 331 Cloud Song 332 Apocrypha 333 Shit 334 Snot 335 Vomit 336 Frog 337 Return to Rome 337 Walking 338 The Hangman’s Love Song 340 God Poem 341 A Valentine’s Day Sketch… 343 Two Fishermen 343 September Evening 344 Winter in Vermont 345 Poem Before Marriage 346 Prayer for Zero Mostel 347 Sign on the Road 348 Potato Song 349 Scarecrow 350 Clams 350 Lot’s Son 351 Photography Isn’t Art 352 War Ballad 353 The Garden 354 Kangaroo 355 The Lesson of the Birds 356 Criton: An Ovidian Folly 356 The Valley 360 For James Wright 361 Bad Day, Good Day 362 Have a Heart, Kidney, Brain and Lung 362 Pratfall 363 Lady of Turquoise 366 Poem for Naomi 367 The Eagle and the Frog 368 Panda Song 368 Postamble 369 Acknowledgements 371 Index of Poem Titles 373

The Last Judgment 283 Some Flowers 285 2002, Alas 286 Song of Imperfection 286 Post-Surgery Song 287 Hot News, Stale News 288 How I Got Ted Roethke’s Raccoon-Skin Coat 289 Prophecy I 289 Stowaway 290 Hermaphrodites in the Garden 291 Hannibal Crossing the Alps 292 The Poet 293 To Alexander Fu On His Beginning and 13th Birthday 293 Alexander’s First Battle 295 Alexander Fu to Stanley 295 Letter to Alexander Fu, Seven Years Old 296 April, Beijing 297 Dog 298 On Trying to Remember Two Chinese Poems 299 Stations 300 Lost Daughter 301 Shoes 302 Song for Stanley Kunitz 302 Lowell 304 Krill 305 The Battle 306 You and I 307 Song of Introduction 307 Mon Père, Elegy for Paul Celan 308 The Altar 311 Lines for a Stammering Turkish Poet 312 The Public Gardens of Munich 314 The Miscarriage 316 The Inheritance 317 New Moon 319 The Poor of Venice 320 The Hawk, the Serpents and the Cloud 321 The Lace Makers 321 The Geographer 323 The Debt 325 For Margaret 327 The Decadent Poets of Kyoto 328 Following the Saints 329

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