Poetry 180: A Turning Back to Poetry Book

	Introduction
1	Introduction to Poetry	3
2	Selecting a Reader	4
3	Not Bad, Dad, Not Bad	5
4	Singing Back the World	6
5	The Pink Car	8
6	Acting	10
7	The Cord	12
8	Ode: The Capris	14
9	Bringing My Son to the Police Station to Be Fingerprinted	17
10	On the Death of a Colleague	19
11	The Space Heater	21
12	Numbers	23
13	Lines	25
14	Listen	26
15	Unholy Sonnets	27
16	Poem for Salt	28
17	The Hand	29
18	Where I Was	30
19	hoop snake	32
20	Bestiary for the Fingers of My Right Hand	34
21	The Summer I Was Sixteen	36
22	Did I Miss Anything?	37
23	Song of Smoke	39
24	Autobiographia	41
25	White Towels	42
26	To You	43
27	It's Raining in Love	44
28	Moderation Kills (Excusez-Moi, Je Suis Sick as a Dog)	46
29	Mrs. Midas	49
30	The Oldest Living Thing in L.A.	53
31	Little Father	54
32	Alzheimer's	55
33	The Book of Hand Shadows	56
34	Sidekicks	57
35	A Poetry Reading at West Point	58
36	Only One of My Deaths	60
37	I'm A Fool to Love You	61
38	Love Poem 1990	63
39	Passer-by, these are words...	65
40	Wheels	66
41	Rain	68
42	A Myopic Child	69
43	At the Other End of the Telescope	70
44	praise song	73
45	The Man into Whose Yard You Should Not Hit Your Ball	74
46	The Farewell	76
47	The Partial Explanation	77
48	Poem for Adlai Stevenson and Yellow Jackets	78
49	The Late Passenger	80
50	On a 3 1/2 Oz. Lesser Yellowlegs, Departed Boston August 28, Shot Martinique September 3	83
51	Tour	84
52	After Us	85
53	Poetry	87
54	The Fathers	88
55	The High School Band	89
56	The Bell	90
57	Dearborn North Apartments Chicago, Illinois	91
58	Gouge, Adze, Rasp, Hammer	92
59	The Bruise of This	94
60	1-800-HOT-RIBS	95
61	The Printer's Error	97
62	Cartoon Physics, part 1	101
63	Advice from the Experts	103
64	She Didn't Mean to Do It	104
65	Snow	105
66	Six One-Line Film-Scripts	107
67	I Finally Managed to Speak to Her	108
68	Before She Died	109
69	In the Well	110
70	The Sonogram	111
71	Love Like Salt	112
72	Through the Window of the All-Night Restaurant	113
73	The Assassination of John Lennon as Depicted by the Madame Tussaud Wax Museum, Niagara Falls, Ontario, 1987	115
74	Barbie's Ferrari	116
75	A Romance for the Wild Turkey	118
76	Ye White Antarctic Birds	119
77	St. Francis and the Sow	120
78	Killing the Animals	121
79	The Old Liberators	122
80	Sentimental Moment or Why Did the Baguette Cross the Road?	123
81	Grammar	124
82	Plague Victims Catapulted over Walls into Besieged City	125
83	In Tornado Weather	126
84	The Portuguese in Mergui	127
85	No Return	129
86	The Panic Bird	130
87	A Hunger	132
88	Otherwise	133
89	Happy Marriage	134
90	At Navajo Monument Valley Tribal School	136
91	Hamlet Off-Stage: Laertes Cool	138
92	Lesson	139
93	Football	140
94	Fat Is Not a Fairy Tale	141
95	Sister Cat	142
96	The Bagel	143
97	On Swimming	144
98	Song Beside a Sippy Cup	145
99	Watching the Mayan Women	146
100	Queen Herod	148
101	Video Blues	152
102	Smoking	153
103	Old Men Playing Basketball	154
104	Gratitude to Old Teachers	156
105	June 11	157
106	Vegetarian Physics	158
107	My Life	159
108	Nuclear Winter	161
109	Message: Bottle #32	162
110	Waves	163
111	no. 6	164
112	Tuesday Morning, Loading Pigs	166
113	For Mohammed Zeid, Age 15	168
114	Small Comfort	170
115	Skin	171
116	Telephone Repairman	173
117	What I Would Do	175
118	The Meadow	177
119	Rotary	178
120	Sax's and Selves	181
121	Black Leather Because Bumblebees Look Like It	183
122	Beyond Recall	185
123	Alley Cat Love Song	187
124	Goodbye to the Old Life	188
125	For "Fiddle-De-De"	191
126	Country Fair	194
127	Part of Eve's Discussion	195
128	Birth Day	196
129	On Not Flying to Hawaii	197
130	The Poem of Chalk	199
131	My Father's Hats	202
132	Of Politics & Art	203
133	Loud Music	205
134	Elevator Music	207
135	A Wreath to the Fish	208
136	ballplayer	210
137	The Green One over There	212
138	May	215
139	The Quest	217
140	In Simili Materia	219
141	Words for Worry	220
142	In Praise of BIC Pens	221
143	The Other World	223
144	The Grammar Lesson	225
145	Fast Break	226
146	The Invention of Heaven	228
147	Saturday at the Canal	229
148	Doing Without	230
149	The Death of Santa Claus	231
150	Ladies and Gentlemen in Outer Space	233
151	Thanksgiving	234
152	Dog's Death	235
153	Hound Song	236
154	A Metaphor Crosses the Road	237
155	The Swan at Edgewater Park	238
156	The Blizzard	239
157	Where is She?	241
158	Coffee in the Afternoon	242
159	One Morning	243
160	Animals	244
161	God Says Yes to Me	245
162	The Perfect Heart	246
163	The Birthday	247
164	Not Swans	248
165	I Wish in the City of Your Heart	249
166	The Accompanist	252
167	The Wolf of Gubbio	252
168	49[superscript th] Birthday Trip (What Are You On?)	254
169	How Many Times	255
170	The History of Poetry	256
171	The Dead	258
172	Social Security	259
173	The Student Theme	261
174	Smell and Envy	262
175	The Yawn	263
176	Blue Willow	263
177	Tuesday 9:00 AM	265
178	Ordinance on Arrival	267
179	96 Vandam	268
180	What He Thought	269
	Notes on the Contributors	273
	Index of Contributors	305
	Index of Titles	309
	Permission Credits	313