Search Party: Collected Poems Book

	Introduction
	The Search Party	3
	Psychoanalysis	5
	Blues for John Coltrane, Dead at 41	6
	Coleman Hawkins (d. 1969), RIP	7
	Jealousy	8
	Moving	10
	Lust	11
	Faith of Our Fathers	12
	Why We Are Truly a Nation	13
	On Cape Cod a Child Is Stolen	14
	Driving All Night	15
	Oh Yes	16
	Old Girlfriends	17
	What You Need	18
	Wehlener Sonnenuhr Auslese 1959	19
	Yes!	20
	Directions	23
	Sleeping Alone	24
	Driving Alongisde the Housatonic River Alone on a Rainy April Night	25
	Another Beer	26
	Night Driving	28
	The Needle's Eye, the Lens	29
	An Egg in the Corner of One Eye	30
	The Cat	31
	Talk	34
	La Tache 1962	35
	Snow	36
	Sleep	38
	Letter to Russell Banks	40
	The Portrait	45
	Mud Chokes No Eels	46
	Beer after Tennis, 22 August 1972	47
	Bring the War Home	48
	The Waste Carpet	49
	Sticks & Stones	54
	Spring Snow	59
	Moving Again	60
	Snow Leopards at the Denver Zoo	62
	The News	63
	Strange Knees	64
	Living Among the Dead	65
	Left Hand Canyon	67
	In Memory of the Utah Stars	69
	Bud Powell, Paris, 1959	71
	Listening to Lester Young	72
	The Icehouse, Pointe au Baril, Ontario	73
	The Mail	75
	Taking the Train Home	76
	Waking at Dusk from a Nap	79
	In Memory of W. H. Auden	81
	Nurse Sharks	83
	Long	85
	New	89
	Cows Grazing at Sunrise	90
	Housework	91
	Bystanders	92
	Twins	94
	Our Strange and Lovable Weather	96
	Descriptive Passages	98
	Good Company	100
	School Figures	102
	Pissing off the Back of the Boat into the Nivernais Canal	104
	The Penalty for Bigamy Is Two Wives	106
	Bmp Bmp	107
	Nabokov's Death	109
	On the Porch at the Frost Place, Franconia, NH	111
	The Cloud	115
	Eternally Undismayed Are the Poolshooters	120
	The Drunken Baker	122
	Leaving the Cleveland Airport	123
	Dancing to Reggae Music	124
	Gossip	126
	Iowa City to Boulder	127
	Lions in the Cincinnati Zoo	128
	A Walk with John Logan 1973	129
	Clearwater Beach, Florida, 1950	130
	Jilted	132
	Good	135
	Sympathetic	139
	Whiplash	140
	Bad	143
	The Psychopathology of Everyday Life	147
	Loyal	149
	A Happy Childhood	150
	Civilization and Its Discontents	156
	Familial	158
	Right	159
	The Theme of the Three Caskets	163
	Masterful	166
	An Elegy for Bob Marley	167
	Wrong	169
	Fellow Oddballs	175
	April in the Berkshires	176
	Photo of the Author with a Favorite Pig	177
	The Accompanist	178
	Herd of Buffalo Crossing the Missouri on Ice	180
	Caddies' Day, the Country Club, a Small Town in Ohio	181
	Dog Life	183
	Recovery Room	184
	Black Box	186
	Vasectomy	187
	Nabokov's Blues	191
	39,000 Feet	194
	Mood Indigo	196
	Housecooling	198
	Homer's Seeing-Eye Dog	199
	The Blues	201
	Moonlight in Vermont	203
	Smoke Gets in Your Eyes	205
	School Days	207
	Little Blue Nude	208
	Onions	212
	Straight Life	214
	Grief	221
	The Wolf of Gubbio	222
	Mingus at The Showplace	223
	The Bear at the Dump	224
	My Father's Body	226
	Time	228
	President Reagan's Visit to New York, October 1984	232
	Mingus at The Half Note	233
	Men at My Father's Funeral	235
	The Rookery at Hawthornden	236
	Note Left for Gerald Stern in an Office I Borrowed, and He Would Next, at a Summer Writers' Conference	238
	Cheap Seats, the Cincinnati Gardens, Professional Basketball, 1959	240
	The Rented House in Maine	241
	Mingus in Diaspora	243
	Tomorrow	245
	Money	247
	The Generations	251
	Cancer Talk	253
	A Night at the Opera	254
	Another Real Estate Deal on Oahu	259
	Slow Work	261
	E lucevan le stelle	262
	Portrait of the Artist as a Young Clarinetist	263
	Debt	264
	Condoms Then	265
	Condoms Now	266
	Phone Log	267
	Driving Through the Poconos, Route 80, 1:30 A.M., Snow	268
	The Buddy Bolden Cylinder	269
	The Memo	270
	Grandmother Talking	271
	Grandmother, Dead at 99 Years and 10 Months	272
	Names	274
	I Let a Song Go out of My Heart	276
	Mingus in Shadow	279
	Rescue	280
	Truffle Pigs	282
	Manners	283
	Promiscuous	285
	Sooey Generous	287
	Oxymorons	290
	Dire Cure	291
	Umbrian Nightfall	295
	The Cloister	296
	A Poetry Reading at West Point	297
	People Like Us	299
	Frazzle	300
	The Bar at the Andover Inn	301
	Big Tongue	302
	Bucket's Got a Hole in It	305
	Misgivings	306
	Care	307
	Index of Titles	309