A History of Color: New and Collected Poems Book

	A History Of Color	3
	To My Friend Born Blind	10
	Subway Token	11
	The Blanket	12
	The Louse	13
	The Falcon	14
	Babies	16
	Praise	18
	Chinese Prayer	20
	Hermaphrodites In The Garden	21
	Shoes	23
	Beauty Is Not Easy	24
	Annunciation	25
	Creed	26
	Prophecy	27
	The Last Judgment	28
	A Refreshment	30
	The Film Critic Imaginaire	31
	Hot News, Stale News	32
	The Black Maple	33
	Stowaway	34
	Heart Work	35
	The Celestial Fox	37
	Post-Surgery Song	38
	September 11: A Fable	39
	The Watch	40
	For Virginia On Her 90[superscript th] Birthday	41
	The Staff	42
	Letter To An Unknown	43
	Alexander's First Battle	44
	Alexander Fu	45
	A Riff For Sidney Bechet	46
	Dark Clouds	47
	2002, Alas	48
	An Argument	49
	June 21[superscript st]	50
	Psalm	51
	The Bathers	55
	Song of Alphabets	57
	Hannibal Crossing The Alps	59
	For Margaret	60
	Rainbows And Circumcision	62
	Letter To The Butterflies	64
	Dog	66
	The Decadent Poets Of Kyoto	67
	The Inheritance	69
	The Swimmer	71
	The Lace Makers	72
	Lost Daughter	74
	The Lesson Of The Birds	75
	Clouds	76
	I Have Come To Jerusalem	77
	Near Machpela/Hebron	78
	A Guest In Jerusalem	79
	Jerusalem: Easter, Passover	80
	Work Song	83
	Exchange Of Gifts	85
	Song Of An Imaginary Arab	86
	To Ariel, My Arabist Friend	88
	A Visit To Kaunas	89
	Ghetto Theater, Vilnius, 1941	90
	Centaur Song	91
	Homing	92
	The Geographer	93
	Clocks	95
	Clown	97
	Song Of Introduction	99
	The Battle	100
	You And I	101
	The Altar	102
	In Front Of A Poster Of Garibaldi	103
	Lenin, Gorky And I	106
	For James Wright	108
	Song For Stanley Kunitz	110
	Lowell	112
	New York Songs	113
	Elegy For Myself	115
	The Poor Of Venice	116
	Song Of Imperfection	117
	The Poet	118
	Allegory Of Evil In Italy	119
	The Startling	120
	Allegory Of Smell	121
	Lullaby	122
	Krill	123
	The Public Gardens Of Munich	124
	Mon Pere	126
	Some Flowers	129
	Lines For A Stammering Turkish Poet	130
	Daydream	133
	Fool	134
	The Hawk, The Serpents And The Cloud	135
	Lullaby For Twins	136
	Letter To Noah	137
	New Moon	138
	The Miscarriage	139
	Postcard To Walt Whitman From Siena	141
	Panda Song	142
	A Gambler's Story	143
	Judas	144
	The Proof	145
	Three Marys	146
	Amphora	148
	On Trying To Remember Two Chinese Poems	149
	April, Beijing	151
	China Sonnet	153
	Walking	154
	The Debt	157
	On Seeing An X-Ray Of My Head	163
	Uncertain Weather	164
	Black Dog	166
	The Meeting	167
	The Improvement	168
	Potato Song	169
	Fishing In The Evening	170
	Prayer	171
	A Sketch Of Slaves, Jews In Concentration Camps And Unhappy Lovers	172
	Kangaroo	173
	The Return	174
	The Gift	175
	Poem Before Marriage	176
	Lovers	177
	The Valley	178
	Jane's Grandmother	179
	Frog	180
	Apocrypha	181
	Morning	183
	Old	184
	Photography Isn't Art	185
	Nicky	187
	War Ballad	188
	Vomit	189
	Saint Merde	191
	Snot	192
	An Exchange Of Hats	193
	Clams	195
	Lot's Son	196
	Prayer For An Actor	197
	Sailing From The United States	198
	Pastoral	199
	Winter In Vermont	200
	The Hangman's Love Song	201
	Castello Di Sermonetta	202
	Antony With Cleopatra	204
	Enobarbus Plans For Cleopatra	205
	Charmian To Enobarbus	206
	Fulvia To Cleopatra: A First Wife's Complaint	207
	Another Reply For Pompey	209
	Return To Rome	210
	Sign On The Road	211
	Plumage	213
	The Gentle Things	214
	Return From Selling	215
	For Doctor Grubin	216
	Two Fishermen	217
	The Red Fields	218
	Squall	219
	Wedding Invitation	220
	God Poem	221
	Index of Titles and First Lines	223
	About the Author	231