Yellow Shoe Poets: Selected Poems, 1964-1999 Book

	Foreword
	Introduction
	Digression on the Nuclear Age	1
	At the Age When You Get Bad News	2
	The Kinds of Sleep	3
	To Sylvia, Grown Daughter	5
	Cities & Empires	6
	The People Through the Train Window	6
	Auction	8
	The Failure of Southern Representation	9
	Foreseeing the Journey	10
	A Wilson County Farmer	11
	Barbecue Service	12
	The County Jail	14
	Sainthood	16
	The Guilt	16
	Xerox	18
	The Orange Tree	19
	The Bookseller	21
	Asparagus	22
	The Errand	24
	Weep-Willow	25
	Mountain Time	26
	Humility	28
	Forever Mountain	28
	Narcissus and Echo	29
	The Story	30
	Sharks	31
	Phylogenesis	31
	Work	33
	The Revelation at Hand	34
	My Romantic Legerdemain	35
	The Map Room	36
	To John Berryman	37
	Romance	38
	on my 18th birthday	40
	Blue Pajamas	42
	Funk	43
	The Master Printer	44
	Science	45
	No. 18 (from The Monarchs: A Poem Sequence)	46
	She	48
	Fog at the Spa	49
	Looking, Late at Night	51
	Easy	52
	Marcel in Venice	53
	For a Daughter Gone Away	54
	Pococurante	55
	The Gandy Dancers	56
	Toad	57
	Main Currents of American Political Thought	58
	Snapshot: Italian Lesson	59
	The Drum Majorette Marries at Calvary Baptist	60
	Sparrow	61
	The Affect of Elms	63
	Earth Elegy	64
	Glass Elegy	66
	At the Ravine	67
	In the Market	69
	A Clutch of Dreams	71
	Swimming Naked	72
	The Tautology of Goodbye	72
	King of the World	74
	When It Comes	76
	The Iceball	77
	Dear Wordsworth	78
	Black Leather	80
	On Miles' Tribute to Duke	80
	The Public Hug	82
	We Never Ask Them Questions	82
	The Mower	84
	The Expatriates	85
	An armada of thirty whales	87
	The Twentieth Century	88
	Ooly Pop a Cow	89
	Inside the Hummingbird Aviary	90
	Scrutiny	92
	My Funny Valentine in Spanish	92
	Lyric: I Am Looking at Music	94
	Forlorn Dream Song	95
	Tuscarora 3	96
	On Learning That Certain Peat Bogs Contain Perfectly Preserved Bodies	98
	Point of Disappearance	99
	Paris Aubade	100
	Lasting	101
	Tell Me	103
	The Family Tree	105
	Blue Herons	106
	The Meaning of Coyotes	107
	Watch for the Fox	108
	Cecropia Terzine	109
	The Adamsons' Peacocks	111
	Family Life	112
	Double Springs	113
	Palindrome	115
	Merce Cunningham and the Birds	116
	Missing the Dead	117
	Losing My Sight	118
	Bali Hai Calls Mama	119
	Chosen	120
	Like Father, Like Son	121
	How I Discovered Poetry	121
	How It Feels on a Good Saturday Morning	123
	Abandoned Airfield, 1977	124
	The Suicide	125
	Visionary Adventures of a Wild Dog Pack	126
	Family	127
	Day Ten After Heart Surgery, Signing a Check	129
	For Charles H. Rowell, On the Death of His Father	131
	Faubourg	133
	Crickets	135
	Listening to My Son's Heart	136
	Goodbye on the Wind	137
	Walking Out	139
	Now That My Father Lies Down Beside Me	139
	Leaving	141
	Passage	142
	Turning Forty in Denver	144
	A Valediction	145
	For the Keeper of MSS	146
	You Can't Have It All	147
	Hells	149
	The Body Can Ascend No Higher	150
	Words for Unaccompanied Voice at Dunmore Head	151
	Waiting for You with the Swallows	152
	After the Worst Is Known	154
	The Water Spider	156
	Grounds	157
	The Woman Who Loves Old Men	159
	The Puritan	160
	Deep in Dordogne	162
	Dylan Thomas in Indiana	164
	Seven Pieces of Advice	166
	Solstice	167
	Sentence	168
	Adam	169
	Caution	169
	Making a Statement	171
	Boys in the Square at Bologna	171
	Descending	172
	Lunch	172
	Passage to Kilronin	173
	The Garden of Medusa	174
	Don't Make Friends with the Dead	176
	For My Mother	177
	He Makes a House Call	178
	Death	179
	January: A Flight of Birds	180
	The Bass	181
	Glance	183
	Grief	183
	My Best Room	184
	Palm Reader	186
	Last Ant	188
	Blackberries	190
	Bernard and Sarah	191
	The Muse Once More	191
	Underpass	193
	Poet Counterpoet	195
	The World Comes Galloping: A True Story	196
	Trying to Tell You Something	197
	Arizona Midnight	198
	Last Night Train	199
	The Glass Door	201
	Please Write: Don't Phone	201
	Through Our Hands	203
	Delta Farmer in a Wet Summer	205
	The Caterpillar	206
	A Poem for Emily	207
	People	208
	An August Evening Outside of Nashville	208
	Matinee	210
	Ember Week, Reseda	212
	Demerol	213
	The James Cotton Band at Keystone	213
	Chronology of LSU Press Poetry Books, 1964-1999	215
	LSU Press Poetry Books by Author, 1964-1999	223