The Works: Poems Selected from Five Decades Book

	Foreword
	Bone Thoughts on a Dry Day	2
	New Strain	4
	Fable for Blackboard	5
	Technologies	6
	Communication to the City Fathers of Boston	7
	A Tapestry for Bayeux	10
	1958: Poems from a First Year in Boston	15
	Named Individual	20
	On First Looking in on Blodgett's Keats's "Chapman's Homer" (Summer. 1/2 credit. Monday 9-11)	22
	Ghosts of the Missionaries	23
	Cold-War Bulletin from the Cultural Front	24
	War Story	26
	Of Late	27
	For an American Burial	28
	From Baudelaire: Le Rebelle	29
	Making it	30
	Translations from the English	31
	Late Late	34
	Elegy for an Industrial Domestic Object	35
	Out in the Cold	37
	The Well-Trained English Critic Surveys the American Scene	38
	Sonnet on the Recognition of China	39
	Dear Fellow Teacher	40
	Poem Issued by Me to Congressmen ...	42
	Tuolomne	52
	High Renaissance	59
	Sonnet with a Different Letter at the End of Every Line	60
	The Passion of G. Gordon Giddy	61
	Said ("Agatha Christie")	69
	Said ("J. Alfred Prufrock")	69
	Working Habits	70
	On the Antiquity of Warfare	71
	Said ("Dame Edith Evans")	73
	Said ("J. Edgar Hoover")	73
	On Reading John Hollander's Poem "Breadth. Circle. Desert. Monarch. Month. Wisdom. (for which there are no rhymes)"	74
	On Reading John Hollander's Poem "Breath. Circle. Desert. Monarch. Month. Wisdom. (for which there are no rhymes)" Part Two	76
	Verses to Exhaust My Stock of Four-Letter Words	77
	Falling Asleep Over Scott	78
	Desperate Measures	83
	The Visit	88
	Three Crosses on Three Pages	92
	Richard the Third in a Fourth of a Second	96
	Space-Saver Sonnets	99
	The Game of Giza	102
	SLABS for George Herbert	103
	Eliot Runs On	104
	Up to Here with the Pied Pipers of Gotham	105
	Poem to be Typed on a Donor Card	106
	Spin Control	107
	Nineteenfifties Vogue Rorshach	108
	Magnificat. Brave Cat at Snifter Fishbowl	109
	Quatrain for Kathy	110
	Sonnet in the Shape of a Potted Christmas Tree	112
	Films Trip Comicstrip Column Vs. Krazy Kael	113
	Cargo Cult of the Solstice at Hadrian's Wall (December 1988)	116
	Elegy in a Country Church Yard	118
	Three Chapter From Talkin' B. A. Blues: 1 This is the Place All Right	141
	Three Chapter From Talkin' B. A. Blues: 2 Grand March	142
	Three Chapter From Talkin' B. A. Blues: 7 Honorary Doctorate of Laws	144
	Commencement Address	148
	Magnificat in Transit from the Toledo Airport	149
	Sign	154
	Incident of the Blizzard of '81	155
	On Gozzoli's Painted Room in the Medici Palace	157
	The Spell Against Spelling	159
	The Great Dam Disaster a Ballad	162
	The Universe is Closed and Has REMs	165
	The Staunch Maid and the Extraterrestrial Trekkie	172
	Sunday Brunch in the Boston Restoration	176
	On an Urban Battlefield	179
	S.D.I.	180
	To a Real Standup Piece of Painted Crockery	181
	The Enchanted Glade	182
	Amazing Gracious Living on I-93	187
	Errand at the Lone Tree Mall	189
	Reading the Facts About Frost in The Norton Anthology	195
	Gastarbeiter	196
	Like Dotted Swiss (From a Book of Unretouched Photographs of the Patternedness of Things)	197
	Catalogue Raisonne of My Refrigerator Door	198
	Washington International	200
	Pleasures of the Voyageurs	201
	About the Author	203