Fact of a Doorframe - Poems 1950-2001 Rev : Selected Poems, 1950-2001

Foreword xv From A Change of World (1951) Storm Warnings 3(1) Aunt Jennifer's Tigers 4(1) Boundary 4(1) At a Bach Concert 5(4) From The Diamond Cutters (1955) Ideal Landscape 9(1) Living in Sin 9(1) The Snow Queen 10(1) Letter from the Land of Sinners 11(4) From Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law (1963) From Morning-Glory to Petersburg 15(1) The Knight 16(1) Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law 17(4) Antinous: The Diaries 21(1) Peeling Onions 22(1) The Roofwalker 23(1) Prospective Immigrants Please Note 24(5) From Necessities of Life (1966) Necessities of Life 29(2) In the Woods 31(2) The Trees 33(1) Like This Together 34(2) Night-Pieces: For a Child 36(2) ``I Am in Danger---Sir---'' 38(1) Mourning Picture 39(1) The Knot 40(1) Focus 41(4) From Leaflets (1969) Orion 45(1) In the Evening 46(1) The Demon Lover 47(3) Jerusalem 50(2) Night Watch 52(1) For a Russian Poet 53(2) Abnegation 55(1) Implosions 56(1) On Edges 57(1) Leaflets 58(5) from Ghazals: Homage to Ghalib 63(8) 7/12/68 The clouds are electric in this university. 63(1) 7/14/68: i In Central Park we talked of our own cowardice. 63(1) 7/14/68: ii Did you think I was talking about my life? 64(1) 7/16/68: i Blacked-out on a wagon, part of my life cut out forever--- 64(1) 7/16/68: ii When they mow the fields, I see the world reformed 65(1) 7/26/68: i Last night you wrote on the wall: Revolution is poetry. 65(1) 8/1/68 The order of the small town on the riverbank 66(1) 8/4/68 If these are letters, they will have to be misread. 66(1) 8/8/68: i From here on, all of us will be living 67(1) 8/8/68: ii A piece of thread ripped-out from a fierce design 67(4) From The Will to Change (1971) November 1968 71(1) Study of History 72(1) Planetarium 73(2) The Burning of Paper Instead of Children 75(3) I Dream I'm the Death of Orpheus 78(1) Letters: March 1969 79(4) The Stelae 83(1) A Valediction Forbidding Mourning 84(1) from Shooting Script 85(8) From Diving into the Wreck (1973) Trying to Talk with a Man 93(1) When We Dead Awaken 94(2) From the Prison House 96(1) The Mirror in Which Two Are Seen as One 97(3) Dialogue 100(1) Diving into the Wreck 101(3) Song 104(1) The Ninth Symphony of Beethoven Understood at Last as a Sexual Message 105(1) Rape 105(2) Burning Oneself In 107(1) From a Survivor 108(1) August 109(4) Uncollected Poems (1950--1974) The Prisoners 113(1) At the Jewish New Year 113(2) Dien Bien Phu 115(1) Re-forming the Crystal 116(2) White Night 118(1) From an Old House in America 119(12) The Fact of a Doorframe 131(4) From The Dream of a Common Language (1978) Power 135(1) Hunger 136(2) Cartographies of Silence 138(5) Twenty-One Love Poems 143(11) A Woman Dead in Her Forties 154(6) Natural Resources 160(11) From A Wild Patience Has Taken Me This Far (1981) Integrity 171(2) For Memory 173(1) For Ethel Rosenberg 174(5) Grandmothers 179(2) The Spirit of Place 181(6) Frame 187(6) From Your Native Land, Your Life (1986) For the Record 193(1) Virginia 1906 194(2) For an Occupant 196(1) North American Time 197(4) Blue Rock 201(2) from Contradictions: Tracking Poems 203(1) Look: this is January 203(1) Heart of cold. 204(1) My mouth hovers 204(1) Dear Adrienne: I'm calling you up tonight 205(1) Dear Adrienne, I feel signified by pain 205(1) Night over the great and the little worlds 206(1) I came out of the hospital 206(1) Violence as purification 207(1) Lately in my dreams 207(1) You who think I find words for everything 208(1) The problem, unstated till now 208(1) The tobacco fields lie fallow 209(1) In a bald skull sits our friend 209(1) You know the Government must have pushed them 210(1) You: air-driven reft 210(1) The Tolstoyans 211(1) You who think I find words for everything 211(4) From Time's Power (1989) In a Classroom 215(1) The Novel 215(1) Children Playing Checkers at the Edge of the Forest 216(1) The Desert as Garden of Paradise 217(7) Delta 224(1) Dreamwood 224(1) Harpers Ferry 225(8) From An Atlas of the Difficult World (1991) from An Atlas of the Difficult World 233(14) A dark woman, head bent 233(2) Here is a map of our country 235(1) Late summers, early autumns 236(1) Catch if you can your country's moment 237(2) (The dream-site) 239(1) He thought there would be a limit 239(2) On this earth, in this life 241(1) Soledad. = f. Solitude, loneliness 242(1) One night on Monterey Bay 243(2) (Dedications) 245(2) That Mouth 247(1) Marghanita 247(2) Tattered Kaddish 249(1) Final Notations 250(3) From Dark Fields of the Republic (1995) What Kind of Times Are These 253(1) In Those Years 253(1) Calle Vision 254(7) Then or Now 261(3) Food Packages: 1947 261(1) Innocence: 1945 261(1) Sunset, December, 1993 262(1) Deportations 263(1) And Now 264(1) Late Ghazal 264(1) from Inscriptions 265(10) One: comrade 265(1) Two: movement 266(1) Four: history 267(1) Six: edgelit 268(7) From Midnight Salvage (1999) For an Anniversary 275(1) Midnight Salvage 275(5) Char 280(2) Letters to a Young Poet 282(4) Camino Real 286(2) Seven Skins 288(4) Rusted Legacy 292(5) From Fox (2001) Veterans Day 297(5) Architect 302(1) Fox 303(1) Fire 304(1) Noctilucent Clouds 305(1) If Your Name Is on the List 306(1) 1999 307(1) Four Short Poems 308(2) (driving home from Robin Blaser's reading) 308(1) We're not yet out of the everglades 308(1) Beethoven's ``Appassionata'' played 309(1) From the new crudities, from the old 309(1) Ends of the Earth 310(1) Notes 311(8) Index 319