The Selected Poems of Howard Nemerov Book

	Foreword
	Preface
	Acknowledgments
	The Truth of the Matter	2
	Observation of October	4
	The Fortune Teller	5
	Guide to the Ruins	7
	Elegy of Last Resort	8
	The Winter Lightning	12
	Zalmoxis	13
	The Pond	14
	The Goose Fish	19
	The Snow Globe	21
	Central Park	22
	The Market-Place	23
	The Mirror	25
	Trees	26
	The Town Dump	27
	Storm Windows	30
	Shells	31
	The Statues in the Public Garden	33
	A Day on the Big Branch	35
	The Loon's Cry	39
	A Primer of the Daily Round	43
	Brainstorm	44
	Painting a Mountain Stream	46
	Moment	49
	Runes	50
	Going Away	60
	The View from an Attic Window	62
	The Icehouse in Summer	65
	To Clio, Muse of History	67
	A Spell before Winter	69
	Goldfish	70
	Blue Suburban	71
	Burning the Leaves	72
	Elegy for a Nature Poet	73
	From the Desk of the Laureate: For Immediate Release	75
	Landscape with Figures	77
	The Human Condition	79
	Beyond the Pleasure Principle	80
	Christmas Morning	81
	The Blue Swallows	82
	The Mud Turtle	84
	Summer's Elegy	86
	For Robert Frost, in the Autumn, in Vermont	87
	Firelight in Sunlight	88
	On Being a Member of the Jury for a Poetry Prize	91
	September, the First Day of School	92
	After Commencement	94
	On Being Asked for a Peace Poem	95
	To D - , Dead by Her Own Hand	97
	The Beautiful Lawn Sprinkler	98
	Einstein & Freud & Jack	100
	Wolves in the Zoo	102
	The Common Wisdom	103
	The Dependencies	104
	A Cabinet of Seeds Displayed	105
	Again	106
	Near the Old People's Home	107
	Conversing with Paradise	108
	An Ending	109
	The Serial	111
	Manners	112
	Monet	113
	Acorn, Yom Kippur	114
	Morning Glory	115
	The Dying Garden	116
	A Christmas Storm	117
	Easter	119
	By Al Lebowitz's Pool	120
	Because You Asked about the Line between Prose and Poetry	125
	A Sprig of Dill	127
	Wintering	128
	Fish Swimming amid Falling Flowers	129
	The Air Force Museum at Dayton	131
	On an Occasion of National Mourning	133
	Models	134
	Night Operations, Coastal Command RAF	136
	The War in the Air	137
	The Afterlife	138
	On Reading King Lear Again, 1984	139
	To the Congress of the United States, Entering Its Third Century	141
	Answering Back	143
	Larkin	144
	The Forbidden City	146
	The End of the Opera	147
	Trying Conclusions	148
	Index of Titles and First Lines	149