The Little Space: Poems Selected and New, 1968-1998 (Pitt Poetry Series) Book

	The Anniversary	3
	Excerpts from Once More Out of Darkness	4
	Wrinkly Lady Dancer	8
	Becky and Benny in Far Rockaway	11
	Sonnet. To Tell the Truth	12
	Annie, Aphrodite, and the Elevator	13
	Portraite de l'Artiste	15
	Portrait of a Man	16
	The Fool Stands Up to Teach King Lear Again	17
	Cambodia	21
	Excerpts from "Mother/Child"	26
	Mother/Child: Coda	36
	Excerpt from "Propaganda Poem: Maybe for Some Young Mamas"	38
	The Leaf Pile	39
	The Change	41
	In the Dust	43
	His Speed and Strength	44
	The Waiting Room	47
	After the Shipwreck	49
	The Crazy Lady Speaking	50
	The Exchange	51
	The History of America	52
	Dream: The Disclosure	53
	Homecoming	54
	The Impulse of Singing	56
	Excerpt from "Message from the Sleeper at Hell's Mouth"	57
	The Runner	59
	A Minor Van Gogh (He Speaks)	61
	Waterlilies and Japanese Bridge	62
	The Singing School	64
	Cows	67
	Horses	69
	Staring at the Pacific, and Swimming in It	71
	Three Men Walking, Three Brown Silhouettes	73
	Mother in Airport Parking Lot	75
	The Marriage Nocturne	77
	Surviving	79
	Meeting the Dead	86
	Listen	88
	A Question of Time	90
	Years	92
	I Brood About Some Concepts, for Example	93
	Taking the Shuttle with Franz	95
	Everywoman Her Own Theology	97
	Poem Beginning with a Line by Fitzgerald/Hemingway	99
	The War of Men and Women	103
	A Clearing by a Stream	111
	Letting the Doves Out	113
	Fifty	117
	A Young Woman, a Tree	119
	Helium	122
	George in Hospital	123
	Excerpts from "A Birthday Suite"	124
	Stream	128
	The Pure Products of America	130
	Windshield	132
	The Bride	133
	The Death Ghazals	136
	A Meditation in Seven Days	141
	Excerpts from "Homage to Rumi"	152
	To Love Is	157
	Move	159
	The Dogs at Live Oak Beach, Santa Cruz	163
	Boil	164
	Marie at Tea	166
	Migrant	169
	Globule	170
	Nude Descending	172
	The Studio (Homage to Alice Neel)	174
	Appearance and Reality	175
	The Boys, the Broomhandle, the Retarded Girl	177
	The Eighth and Thirteenth	178
	Saturday Night	181
	The Book of Life	183
	Middle-Aged Woman at a Pond	191
	The Nature of Beauty	192
	The Class	194
	Locker Room Conversation	196
	Jonah's Gourd Vine	198
	Still Life: A Glassful of Zinnias on My Daughter's Kitchen Table	199
	Excerpts from "The Mastectomy Poems"	202
	April One	217
	From the Prado Rotunda: The Family of Charles IV, and Others	220
	A Chinese Fan Painting	222
	O'Keeffe	223
	Anselm Kiefer	224
	Holocaust	225
	Diaspora	227
	Millennial Polka	228
	About Time	229
	Acknowledgments	231