Collected Shorter Poems Book

	Acknowledgements	12
	Preface	13
	Viaticum	17
	The Watcher	18
	Under Virgo	19
	Death of a Stallion	20
	The Spring Festival on the River	21
	Section three, the Hobbies	22
	Hunger-Trace	23
	Involuntary Portrait	24
	Lines for Leibniz	25
	Cider and Vesalius	27
	Colophon for Ch'ing-ming Shang-ho T'u	30
	In Front of a Japanese Photograph	33
	Pointing	33
	Pear	34
	For the Engraver	35
	Leaving the Coal Cellar	36
	Turn	36
	Quiet	37
	Vestibule	38
	Dark on Dark	39
	Letting Up	43
	Family Burying Ground	44
	Lucien	44
	Refinding the Seam	47
	Am Abend da es kuhle war ...	48
	Bounds	49
	Ground Observer Corps	51
	Fog Burning Off at Cape May	52
	March Elegies	54
	To the Allegheny	64
	Redemption	67
	Migration	68
	Cussewago	71
	Let Us Call This the Hill of Sotatsu	72
	A Weaving at the Zollbrucke in Zurich	74
	Preface	79
	Four Ancient Poems	81
	Ditty for Mayor Fu of Freiburg im Breisgau	81
	Forged Heart Blade	83
	Tally Stick	83
	A Sash for Wu Yun	84
	The Death of Yuri Andropov	89
	Rhyme Prose Three: Chapter of the Nine Rocks	90
	Vega over the rim of the Val Verzasca	92
	Clam Shell with Hunting Scene	92
	Fifteen stars fence polar fire ...	94
	Sorting Straws	95
	And what do they do ...	97
	Hezelnut	98
	Fantasia for Du Bellay	98
	Osip Mandelshtam in the Grisons	99
	Wind under Sash, Val Ferret	101
	Rhyme Prose Four	102
	Seventh Moon	104
	Spring Housecleaning	109
	Anti-dithyrambics	109
	A Gross of Poems Linked in the Mixed Manner	110
	from Rhyme Prose Six	131
	Hill Country Ballad	133
	The Cells at Tun-huang	133
	Honan Folksong	135
	from Folksong I.ix of the Greater Odes	136
	Mencius VI.1 viii	136
	Single Seal Quodlibets	137
	Two and Three Seal Medley	138
	Age of Gold	138
	Barometric Reading Incorporating Single Graphs	139
	Liu Xie, Wenxin diaolong zhu, 6.521	140
	Dawn in Shih-Cheng, Li Ho	140
	from Twenty-three Poems about Horses, Li Ho	141
	Weeping for Ying Yao, Wang Wei	142
	Wang Yang-ming	143
	The Proem (opening), Parmenides	143
	Orphic Fragment	144
	Christian Epigram, Palatine Anthology L.59	144
	from Poem on Divine Providence, Orientius	145
	What enwombed the marrow: Walahfrid Strabo	146
	Travellers to Broceliande	146
	Gouty Bright, Janus Pannonius	148
	My Country Weeps: 1636, Andreas Gryphius	148
	The Course of Life, Friedrich Holderlin	149
	The Tombs (conclusion), Ugo Foscolo	150
	Rawlinson Two-Step (including Gottfried Keller)	150
	A Cento from Valais Quatrains, R. M. Rilke	152
	Novgorod: Coming of the Saints, Johannes Bobrowski	153
	House, Ondra, Lysohorsky	154
	Century, Ion Barbu	155
	The Last Centaur, Ion Barbu	155
	Yu-Vu Songs of the Na-Khi	156
	Sahara Frescoes, Tassili	163
	The Capital, 1980	164
	Leaving the Central Station	164
	Pilgrims for Bendis	165
	Interleaved Lines on Jephthah and His Daughter	167
	Fire is one ...	168
	Armin	168
	Canzone of Wood, Paper, Water	170
	By Mummelsee	175
	Six Stanzas in Nine Lines	177
	Times Passing the Breakwater	179
	Jonathan	182
	Hellade	184
	Tallies	185
	Ides of February	191
	Roman Elegy	193
	Jaruzelski Winter	195
	Begin's Autumn, after the Late Massacre, 1982	197
	In Lazio	198
	Passacaglias	200
	Boat near the Capo Miseno	204
	Campagna	205
	From an iced basin at the window ...	206
	He who called blood builder ...	206
	Zurich, the Stork Inn	207
	June Fugue	209
	Cento Biblioteche Italiane	213
	Sections, Little Frieze	218
	Three Little Odes	221
	Turns near Vincigliata	223
	Animula	226
	Before a Journey	227
	Border	228
	Kayak Island	229
	Evening Concert	231
	End of July	232
	Fantasia on a Theme from Don Giovanni	233
	Stanzas from the Bridge	238
	Rhapsody for the Gatekeepers	240
	Riposte	242
	Weather over the Lake	242
	'Siete voi qui, ser Brunetto?'	243
	Livy	244
	Dearest, Infernal Granite	245
	Seventeen Years after the Tet Offensive	246
	Report from Mendrisio Station	246
	Causerie	247
	Riddle of Peace	249
	Sections, Frieze from the Gardens of Copenhagen	250
	Ars Poetica	259
	Round	260
	Parable with Broken Frame	267
	Posthouse	267
	White Deer Running	269
	Thonon-les-bains, Upper Terrace	270
	In a Railway Compartment near Glarus	271
	'Never You, in Those Ships, nor to Those Towers ...'	272
	'And Fresh Cuttings from Like Things'	273
	Kirschdieb	275
	Towards Naples	279
	Sing and sing me again	279
	To an Unknown Poet	281
	The Well of Saint Regisse	281
	Archeus Terrae	282
	Raina	283
	Lakeside	284
	Weaving at Felsenegg	286
	Two Leukes	289
	The Dream of Arthur	290
	Goad of the Last Chapter	292
	Saint Thomas, Strasbourg, Late August	294
	As steam on forest track ...	295
	Book of Life	295
	Fireframe	296
	Early Summer Evening, Kanton Zurich	298
	Kesa for the Buddhist Priest Myoe Koben, Kanton Zurich	299
	Tobelwacht	301
	Kesa for Myoe Koben, Tobelwacht	304
	from Spring-through-Fall Epistle to Hakuin	305
	Wadding the year's leaves ...	308
	Welder	309
	I Struck the Name 'Provider', Assessment Eluding Me	310
	Conductus Argillus	311
	Conductus Lupus	312
	Conductus Albinus	313
	All Souls	314
	Ficino's Rest	316
	Vigil of Parmenides	317
	From Katschenstrick over Einsiedeln	318
	Passage to the Islands	319
	For Radovan Lorkovic	321
	Opposed to the drift of things ...	322
	Two Rooms	323
	Monologue of the Magdalene	325
	Reading Late at Night in January	326
	Balcony	327
	Sections, For Wind Instruments	329
	To Artemis	331
	Merlin	331
	Anti-Rameau	332
	For My Daughter	334
	In Zion	335
	X and Son	336
	Reichenau Afternoon	337
	Sketch around a Memorial	338
	Causerie, Late Advent 1993	342
	Stars over Evil Dwellings	344
	Vi / 93	348
	Tree of Life	350
	Sura of the Dig near Saint Denis	351
	Paragraphs for a Mansion	352
	Triple Frieze	355
	To the Lampbearer	359
	Descending to Ninfa	359
	He, She, All of Them, Aye	361
	Woods Burial	365
	Autumn Syllabics on Themes from Horace and the Chinese Masters	365
	So the Name of That Place Was Taberah	366
	Anasazi, Ancient Enemies	367
	Getting at What Happens	368
	Wine of the Solitaries	370
	Little Fugue	371
	Occam's Razor Pledges No Hostages to Fortune	373
	Monument	373
	Soundless Tune in the Jewel	374
	First Things	375
	Vestigium Pedis	376
	Frere Jacques, Frere Antoine	376
	Meditation in the Midst of Action	377
	Polybius	378
	On Tiny Obsidian Blades from Peary Land, Greenland	379
	Romanza	380
	Tombeau for Vernon Watkins	381
	Trio Threaded on Lines from the Parthian Hymns	382
	Viaticum	385
	For a Small Chorus	385
	Ave	387
	From the Headland at Cumae	388
	Memorandum	391
	Relay Octets	394
	Incident near Vicenza	399
	Encounter above Stresa	400
	Notes	404