Crossing to Sunlight Revisited: New and Selected Poems Book

Preface     xi
Twenty-three New Poems
Because I Am Heir to Many Things     3
Zimmer Lurches from Chair to Chair     4
Three Crows     5
The Moment     6
The Beast of Soldiers Grove     7
Cezanne Pauses in Soldiers Grove     9
New York 3, Soldiers Grove 97     10
In Burkum's Tap     11
A Love Poem for Alyce Husar     12
Beneath Zimmer's Writing Shack Live Groundhogs     14
Bach and My Father     15
Blake and Zimmer     16
One O'clock Jump     17
Dog Music     19
Howdy Duncan Managed Our Team     21
The Light     23
The Planets     24
Amongst the French     25
Love Poem     26
Unscathed     27
What Zimmer Will Do     29
This Small Woman     30
Desiderium     31
Fifty Early Poems
The Day Zimmer Lost Religion     35
Zimmer in Grade School     36
What Zimmer Would Be     37
One for the Ladies at the Troy Laundry Who Cooled Themselves for Zimmer     39
Zimmer Guilty of the Burnt Girl     40
Father Animus and Zimmer     41
A Zimmershire Lad     43
An Enzyme Poem for Suzanne     44
Zimmer Envying Elephants     45
Zimmer Loathing the Gentry     46
Zimmer's Bed     47
Wanda Being Beautiful     48
Lester Tells of Wanda and the Big Snow     49
Robyn Hode and Maid Wanda     50
Dear Wanda (Letter from Rollo)     51
Thurman Dreaming in Right Field     52
Thurman's Slumping Blues     53
Someone Points and Says, Up There's Old Thurman     54
Irene Gogle     55
The Eisenhower Years     56
The Duke Ellington Dream     58
The Great House     59
A Final Affection     60
When Angels Came to Zimmer     61
Work     62
Zimmer Imagines Heaven     63
The Origins of Love     64
The Sounds of Magpie     65
The Old Trains at Night     66
Yellow Sonnet     67
Sitting with Lester Young     68
The Tenth Circle     69
The Place     70
The Great Bird of Love     71
The Persistence of Fatherhood      72
What I Know about Owls     73
A Romance for the Wild Turkey     74
The Brain of the Spider     75
But Bird     76
Romance     78
The Existential Year     79
The Beautiful Ethiopian Navy     80
The Weathers of Love     82
Love Poem     84
Big Blue Train     85
The Books     87
Before the Moon Came Up Last Night     88
Suck It Up     89
Passage     91
In Apple Country     92
Acknowledgments     95