Starting from Sleep: New and Selected Poems Book

	Necessity's Children	15
	On the Interpretation of Dreams	16
	Dialogue of Stone and Stream	17
	To the Blackboard	19
	The Instrument	22
	The Wave	23
	Even as We Sleep	24
	Death Will Do Nothing	25
	Against a Certain Kind of Ardency	26
	Lot's Wife Looks Back	28
	Just a Smack at Larkin	30
	Past Closing Time: Eight Epigrams	31
	Petronius on Values	33
	Seven Poems from the Latin of John Owen	34
	Still Life with Pears	36
	The Philosopher's Progress	37
	Four Poems	39
	Death and the Four-Year-Old	43
	How My Queer Uncle Came to Die at Last	44
	For a Child of Seven, Taken by the Jesuits	55
	Breaking Old Ground	56
	Victoria's Secret	59
	Tonight's Jeopardy	60
	Souvenirs of the Late War	61
	A Night at the Opera	62
	Getting the Miracle Wrong	64
	Flying Heads	65
	Reflections after a Dry Spell	66
	Modernism: The Short Course	67
	At Home with Psyche and Eros	68
	Vain Speculations	69
	To a Snapping Turtle, Lately Hatched	70
	Stanzas after Endgame	72
	The Philosopher's Balloon	78
	On Yielding to Whim	81
	Metaphor of Grass in California	82
	The Two of Them	83
	A Walk in the Hills above the Artists' House	85
	Complaint of the Night Watchman	115
	Steal the Bacon	116
	After the Rape of the Sabine Women	118
	Design	119
	A Burial at Shanidar	120
	Domestic Interior	122
	Speech against Stone	123
	A Happy Ending for the Lost Children	125
	E. S. L.	127
	Easter Sunday, 1985	130
	July 1914	131
	"Grace, Secrets, Mysteries ..."	133
	Mandelstam in Transit	135
	To the Living Bait	136
	Landscape without History	138
	Making Faces	142
	Passages from Friday	149
	Coda: Mr. Dorrington's Discovery	172
	Sharks at the New York Aquarium	177
	Snapshot of Dracula	178
	Satyr, Cunnilinguent: To Herman Melville	179
	Weekend	180
	After	181
	Terminal Colloquy	182
	Institutional Life	183
	Heroic Attitudes	190
	Four for Theodore Roethke	192
	Proposal for a Monument of Pears	197
	Love in the City of Reflected Light	198
	Calvus in Ruins	200
	Taken Up	208