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

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