The Owner of the House: New Collected Poems 1940-2001 Book

	The Long Afternoon	19
	Nero in Love	20
	A Letter from Brazil	21
	An Old Building on Hudson Street	24
	The Appointment	26
	An Orchid	29
	The Listeners	31
	The Willies	33
	Inspiration	37
	A Wandering Life	39
	The Blue Coast	40
	Lilies of the Field	43
	All Sorts of Things	45
	The Floor Lamp	46
	"He's asleep"	47
	In Country Houses	49
	Country Doctor	51
	The Fence	52
	At Journey's End	53
	Foursome	55
	Wash, Dry, and Fold	56
	Any Time Now	57
	Sanctuary Road	59
	Kaimana Beach	61
	Peter's Dream	65
	A Walk with Goethe	67
	A Walk with Basho	68
	Confessions of a Professor of English	69
	A Farewell to His Muse	72
	Footnotes to Fodor's Spain	74
	Homeless Men	78
	In the Alpha Cradle	80
	Reading the Times	82
	The Wow! Factor	83
	Driving	84
	A Shearling Coat	85
	Graduation	86
	Variations on a Theme by Shostakovich	87
	At the Church Door	91
	The Children's Choir	92
	Grand Forks	93
	The Owner of the House	95
	Arm in Arm	99
	Lazarus Convalescent	100
	Summer Storm	101
	A Witty War	102
	Carentan O Carentan	103
	Song: "Rough Winds Do Shake the Darling Buds of May"	105
	As Birds Are Fitted to the Boughs	109
	A Woman Too Well Remembered	110
	The Man Who Married Magdalene	111
	Memories of a Lost War	112
	The Heroes	113
	The Battle	114
	The Ash and the Oak	115
	West	116
	Early in the Morning	117
	I Dreamed that in a City Dark as Paris	121
	A Dream of Governors	122
	To the Western World	124
	Hot Night on Water Street	125
	The Boarder	126
	Orpheus in America	127
	Music in Venice	129
	Cote d'Azur	131
	The Runner	133
	The Bird	162
	The Silent Generation	167
	The Lover's Ghost	168
	The Goodnight	169
	In California	173
	In the Suburbs	174
	The Redwoods	175
	There Is	176
	Summer Morning	178
	Birch	179
	The Morning Light	180
	The Cradle Trap	181
	A Story About Chicken Soup	182
	The Troika	184
	Frogs	186
	My Father in the Night Commanding No	187
	American Poetry	189
	The Inner Part	190
	On the Lawn at the Villa	191
	The Riders Held Back	192
	Wind, Clouds, and the Delicate Curve of the World	194
	Walt Whitman at Bear Mountain	195
	Stumpfoot on 42nd Street	199
	After Midnight	201
	Dvonya	205
	A Son of the Romanovs	206
	Meyer	208
	The Country House	210
	A Night in Odessa	212
	Isidor	214
	Indian Country	215
	The Climate of Paradise	218
	American Dreams	219
	The Photographer	220
	Vandergast and the Girl	221
	On a Disappearance of the Moon	224
	Port Jefferson	225
	A Friend of the Family	226
	The Foggy Lane	231
	Sacred Objects	232
	Trasimeno	234
	The Peat-Bog Man	235
	The Silent Piano	236
	Venus in the Tropics	239
	Dinner at the Sea-View Inn	242
	The Springs at Gadara	245
	The Hour of Feeling	249
	The Mannequins	251
	The Middleaged Man	252
	Baruch	254
	Searching for the Ox	257
	The Street	263
	Big Dream, Little Dream	264
	Before the Poetry Reading	265
	Working Late	271
	Sway	273
	American Classic	277
	The Beaded Pear	278
	The Ice Cube Maker	282
	The Old Graveyard at Hauppauge	283
	Why Do You Write About Russia?	284
	Typhus	288
	The Art of Storytelling	290
	The Pawnshop	291
	Caviar at the Funeral	292
	Chocolates	293
	Armidale	295
	Out of Season	297
	The Mexican Woman	301
	Back in the States	302
	Physical Universe	305
	How to Live on Long Island	308
	Quiet Desperation	310
	The Previous Tenant	314
	The Eleventh Commandment	330
	Periodontics	332
	Ed	337
	Akhmatova's Husband	338
	Reflections in a Spa	339
	In a Time of Peace	340
	The Unwritten Poem	342
	Riverside Drive	345
	Numbers and Dust	346
	Another Boring Story	348
	The People Next Door	350
	White Oxen	353
	Waiting in the Service Station	354
	A Bramble Bush	355
	Sea of Grass	357
	The Choir Master's Evening Party	361
	Suddenly	362
	Al and Beth	364
	There You Are	366
	Viet-Cong	368
	Remembering the Sixties	369
	The Believer	370
	The Dental Assistant	372
	The Walker on Main Street	373
	Stairs	375
	Working Out	376
	The Indian Student	377
	Old Field Stories	379
	August	380
	Her Weekend in the Country	383
	Patsy	384
	Honeymoon	385
	An Academic Story	387
	After a Light Snowfall	393
	Shoo-Fly Pie	394
	Like a Glass of Tea	395
	A Clearing	396
	Index of Titles	401
	Acknowledgments	404
	About the Author	405
	Colophon	408