The New Young American Poets: An Anthology Book

	A Foreword Looking Backwards
	Introduction
	I Would Steal Horses	1
	The Exaggeration of Despair	1
	Evolution	2
	Theology	3
	You Don't Know What Happened When You Froze	4
	My Shining Archipelago	5
	For Want	7
	Origin Charm Against Uncertain Injuries	8
	Riffing	10
	Three Amoretti	11
	Portishead Suite	12
	That's Not in My Job Description	15
	Nocturne: My Sister Life	21
	A Sleeping Man Must Be Awakened to Be Killed	23
	Legend of the Albino Farm	24
	Rondeau at the Train Stop	26
	What the Body Told	27
	The Battle Hymn of the Republic	27
	Asylum	29
	My Childhood in Another Part of the World	29
	Towards Curing AIDS	30
	"When the grain is golden and the wind is chilly, then it is the time to harvest"	32
	Little Brown Brother	35
	The Filipino Politician	36
	Votive Candles	37
	The map room	38
	El periferico, or sleep	38
	"An archive of confessions, a genealogy of confessions"	39
	"Alas, that is the name of our town; I have been concealing it all this time"	40
	Mary Warren's Sampler	41
	Publick Fast on Account of the Afflicted: March 31, 1692	42
	The Mother: Dorcas Good	43
	John Winthrop, "Reasons to be Considered for ... the Intended Plantation in New England," 1629	45
	Sex with a Famous Poet	46
	Ego	47
	I'm Dealing with My Pain	48
	How Much Is This Poem Going to Cost Me?	49
	Atomic Bride	52
	Star Child	55
	Sir Nose D'VoidofFunk	56
	Practice	58
	Democracy	60
	Admirals (Columbus)	60
	The Ghost of Santo Domingo	61
	Two Girls	62
	Letter to My Mother	64
	My Androgynous Years	66
	The Joy Addict	67
	Los Angeles, the Angels	68
	Soon	69
	Numbers	72
	Pure Pop	74
	My Father's Heroes	76
	When Our Women Go Crazy	78
	Grossdaadi's Funeral	78
	Mennonites	79
	Green, Market, New York	80
	Eve's Striptease	81
	Women Must Put Off Their Rich Apparel	83
	Concerning the Islands Newly Discovered	84
	Taxonomy	85
	The Imperfect Is Our Paradise	86
	Falling	86
	Ariel Singing	88
	Vox Angelica	88
	Kindertotenlieder	90
	Poem	91
	Sunday	92
	Heartsong	93
	Watermelon Tales	94
	Before	97
	Disasterology	99
	D	100
	Following Her to Sleep	102
	Logic in the House of Sawed-Off Telescopes	103
	The First Trimester	105
	Delphos, Ohio	107
	Spring Comes to Chicago	109
	Wheatfield Under Clouded Sky	111
	My Least Skirtable Deficiency	112
	On Inheriting Departure	113
	"We Are Easily Reduced"	114
	How Came What Came Alas	115
	The Turn of Privacy	117
	The Breath He Holds	118
	I, the Neighbor Mr. Uskovich, Watch Every Morning Kenji Takezo Hold His Breath	119
	The Really Long Ride	121
	From Rooftops, Kenji Takezo Throws Himself	121
	Kenji Takezo Becomes Water	122
	Love Poem	124
	Bacchanal	126
	Beekeeper	126
	The Sea Monkeys	128
	Days like Prose	129
	The Vandals	130
	Another Poem about the Vandals	131
	Cruelty, the Vandals Say	132
	The God of Pepper	134
	No Fool, the God of Salt	135
	[nicholas the ridiculous: you will always be 27 and impossible. no more expectations]	137
	[the thicknesses of victor decreased: blanket->sheet->floss. until no material would do]	138
	[sleek mechanical dart: the syringe noses into the blue vein marking the target of me]	139
	[who won't praise green. each minute to caress each minute blade of spring. green slice us open]	140
	[sonnet]	141
	[darling can you kill me: with your mickeymouse pillows]	142
	Testimonial	143
	Brooklyn Bridge	146
	Precision German Craftsmanship	146
	Gliding Toward the Lamps	147
	The Hunger of the Lemur	147
	Why I Forgive My Younger Self Her Transgressions	149
	Falling in Love after Forty	150
	Midnight Supper	150
	AIDS Education, Seventh Grade	152
	Crepuscule	154
	Rear Window	155
	April	156
	Bird Nests	156
	Small Pleasures	157
	The Difficult Music	160
	Another Version of an Ocean	161
	Motive	162
	The Gods at Three A.M.	162
	Holy Ghost	164
	Triage	165
	Axiom of Maria	166
	Occupant of the House	167
	Mardi Gras Premortem	168
	First Death	168
	The Bicycle Racers	169
	Purple Loosestrife	170
	Rouge	171
	Naola Beauty Academy, New Orleans, Louisiana 1943	173
	Bellocq's Ophelia	174
	Photograph of a Bawd Drinking Raleigh Rye	175
	Cameo	176
	Daffodils	177
	Slupwreck Poem	178
	Untitled ["Shrewd star, who crudes our naming..."]	179
	Untitled ["I won't go in today..."]	180
	Untitled ["We did things more dulcet..."]	180
	Urban Gallery	182
	Drinks in the Town Square	183
	A Rival	184
	The Late Show	185
	Poem for a New Year	186
	The Dark Days	188
	Bodies of Water	192
	Appalachian Trees Encircled by Police Tape	192
	Belvedere Marittimo	193
	Elegy	194
	Space Parable	194
	Long Distance	195
	Dux Bellorum	196
	Michael Masse	198
	Waterfowl Descending	199
	Americana	201
	Everlasting Quail	202
	The Bruise of This	204
	From a Vacant House	205
	Take Good Care of Yourself	205
	The Anchorage	207
	Quivira City Limits	209
	Clyde Peeling's Reptiland in Allenwood, Pennsylvania	210
	Letters from the North Star	212
	Campbell's Black Bean Soup	213
	Langston Hughes	214
	Acknowledgments	217
	Contributors	223