I'll Be Right Back: New and Selected Poems, 1980-1996 Book

	Introduction: What Work Does
	Watching a Young Woman Kill Herself	3
	Asphalt Hours, Asphalt Air	4
	White Hand	21
	The Detroit State Poems: Tennenhouse	23
	The Detroit State Poems: Marking	25
	Surprises	27
	Two Students Looking at a Postcard, etc	29
	New and Used	31
	The Freighter	35
	Daffodils	37
	Taking the Dead Out of My Address Book	40
	Hammer	45
	Paper, Scissors, Stone	46
	The Sound: Factory System Poem	48
	Lecture	50
	Students	52
	Articulating West	54
	Motion Pictures	56
	Country Feuds	58
	Breath: For Fred Wah	60
	Raising a Relationship	61
	One Lump or Two	65
	The Big Theft	66
	Why Part-Time Staff Don't Receive Prorated Benefits	68
	A Cursing Poem: This Poem Wants Gordon Shrum to Die	70
	Marshall-Wells Illumination	72
	The Poet Milton Acorn Crosses into the Republic of Heaven	75
	In a Small House on the Outskirts of Heaven	79
	Defective Parts of Speech: Official Errata	81
	Defective Parts of Speech: Have You Really Read All These?	82
	Defective Parts of Speech: Hierarchy	84
	Hating Jews	85
	Greed Suite: The Skeleton	87
	Greed Suite: The Salmon	89
	The Runners	92
	A Yellow Cottage	93
	Woman Who Calls Horses	101
	The Man Who Logged the West Ridge	103
	Country Pleasures	105
	Country Solitude	107
	The Politics of the House: Tables	109
	The Politics of the House: Chairs	111
	The Politics of the House: Alarm Clock	114
	Correcting 120 Essays on Poetry	116
	Did I Miss Anything?	118
	First-Year English Final	119
	Sure, I Was Paid Well	121
	Getting the News	123
	Return to the Heart	124
	The Heart Is Also a Meadow	127
	Modifications to the Heart	129
	The Loves of the Penis	132
	The Winlaw Elegies	134
	Mountain Elegy	135
	The Astonishing Weight of the Dead	139
	Waley, Waley	141
	For William Stafford (1914-1993)	147
	The Quarrel	149
	Post-Secondary Education	151
	Where Mountain Water	153
	In a House of Women	156
	The Road's Side	158
	The Bald Man	161
	Insertion	163
	The Big O	166
	The Call	168
	Clown Sequence: The Death of the Clown	171
	Clown Sequence: The Burial of the Clown	173
	Clown Sequence: The Monument to the Clown	175
	The Hallows	177
	The Alts Visit	178
	Autumn's Gate	179
	I'll Be Right Back	181
	Notes	183