All of It Singing: New and Selected Poems Book

Contents from Too Bright to See We Manage Most When We Manage Small....................3
The Girl I Call Alma....................4
The Chorus Speaks Her Words as She Dances....................5
There She Is....................7
The Beckett Kit....................8
The Poet Goes About Her Business....................10
Different Not Less....................11
Trouble in the Portable Marriage....................12
Classicism....................13
Whole and Without Blessing....................14
Growing Up....................15
Summer in a Small Town....................16
No More Marriages....................17
Eurydice....................18
The Defeated....................20
Too Bright to See....................22
The Apparent....................23
The Gods Must Not Know Us....................24
The Grub....................26
This Place....................27
What If the World Stays Always Far Off....................28
Sun Moon Kelp Flower or Goat....................31
Skylord....................32
Alma to Her Sister....................33
from Alma At Home....................37
Safe and Beautiful....................38
The Ghosts Poem....................39
Marriage and Midsummer's Night....................43
Balancing Everything....................44
At the Gate in the Middle of My Life....................45
Not Saying Much....................46
Oedipus Exceeding....................47
The Shopping-Bag Lady....................49
Lies and Longing....................50
How the Joy of It Was Used Up Long Ago....................51
The Men Like Salmon....................52
TheCopperhead....................53
Death Looks Down....................54
New York Address....................55
Dry Grass & Old Color of the Fence & Smooth Hills....................56
If Death Wants Me....................57
Praising Spring....................58
from The Sacraments of Desire Glistening....................61
Ordinary Songs....................62
Surrounded by Sheep and Low Ground....................64
The Small Thing Love Is....................65
Ahdaam Kai Ava....................66
All the Spring Lends Itself to Her....................67
Night Music....................68
The Design inside Them....................69
In Dirt under Olive Trees on the Hill at Evening....................70
Not Scattered Variously Far....................71
A Dark Thing inside the Day....................72
The Last Night in Mithymna....................73
Part of Me Wanting Everything to Live....................74
The Color of Many Deer Running....................75
Grinding the Lens....................76
Singing Enough to Feel the Rain....................77
The War....................78
The Foreign Language of the Heart....................79
The Life of Literature....................80
Inside the War....................81
There Is No Language in This Country....................83
The Border between Things....................85
It Is the Rising I Love....................86
The Song....................87
Demon-Catchers on Our Doors....................88
from Chosen by the Lion The Ninth Dawn....................91
God's Places....................92
The Weight....................93
The Spirit and What Is Left Behind....................94
Chosen by the Lion....................96
Official Love Story....................97
The Terrifying Power of Darkness Is Inseparable from the Redemptive Power of the Sacred....................99
I Thought on His Desire for Three Days....................101
The Clapping....................103
Asking for Directions....................104
The Resurrection....................105
Aphrodite and the Nature of Art....................106
Winter Light....................107
The Lost Bells of Heaven....................108
There Is a Sweetness in It....................109
Fishing in the Keep of Silence....................111
"Wherefore Dost Bruise Me?" He Exclaimed, Weeping, and Like a Corpse Fell to the Ground....................112
"A Bracelet of Bright Hair about the Bone"....................113
Maybe Leave-Taking....................114
The Edge of Something....................115
The Bounty after the Bounty....................117
Let Birds....................118
from Things and Flesh The Precision....................121
Alone with the Goddess....................122
The Calves Not Chosen....................123
Calamities: Another Eden....................124
The Spirit Neither Sorts nor Separates....................125
As Being Is Eternal....................126
The Heart Flowing Out....................127
The Empty Bowl....................128
More Than New....................129
Etiology....................130
Another Day in Paradise....................131
Heavy with Things and Flesh....................132
A Thirst Against....................133
The Limits of Desire....................134
Always Mistaken....................135
They Tell Me It's Over....................136
Arkansas Afternoons....................137
"Why does this city still retain / its ancient rights over my thoughts and feelings?"....................138
Stuff....................139
The Unknowing....................140
Fiefdom....................141
The Universe on Its Own....................142
Downsized....................143
Paul on the Road to Damascus....................144
Hephaestus Alone....................145
The Right People....................146
The Secrets of Poetry....................147
Harmonica....................148
Lost in the Heart....................149
Winning....................150
from In the Middle Distance The Lightning....................153
Purity....................154
Staying After....................155
Elegance....................156
Getting Value....................157
As Is....................158
The Other Excitement....................159
The Otherness....................160
The Problem of Sentences....................161
Beauty....................162
Waiting....................163
The Presence in Absence....................164
After the Fires....................165
Silence and Glare....................166
According to the Hour....................167
"They Cripple with Beauty and Butcher with Love"....................168
Searching for the Poem....................169
The Stories Are Strenuous....................171
Bamboo and a Bird....................172
Always Alone....................173
The Test Is Whether Anything Breaks Off When You Roll It Down Stairs....................174
Quietly....................175
Not Knowing the Rules....................176
I Do Not Need the Gods to Return....................177
Now I Understand....................178
The Singers Change, the Music Goes On....................179
It Goes Away....................180
Whoever....................181
Highway 90....................182
New Poems If We Are Quiet....................185
Another Mountain....................187
August in the East Village....................190
Being Eleven....................191
The Generosity of Engagement....................192
Losing Them....................194
Hearing the Gods....................195
Behave Yourself....................196
Arriving....................197
You Never Loved Me....................198
A Little Less Pleasing....................200
Captured....................201
Never So Far....................202
No One Listens....................203
I Wish I Could Believe....................204
Getting Down....................206
Just Before Night....................207
The Richness of Loss....................208
Walking on the Bottom of the World....................209
The Source of Romantic Love....................210
Christ Loved Being Housed....................211
Stopping....................212