Almost Paradise: New and Selected Poems and Translations Book

	Ancient Greek poets	3
	Sappho	3
	Anakreon	5
	Asklepiados	8
	Catullus	10
	Chinese poets	13
	Lao Tzu	13
	Chuang Tzu	18
	Lu Chi	21
	Wang Wei	26
	Li Po	29
	Tu Fu	32
	Yuan Chen	36
	Su Tung-p'o	39
	Li Ch'ing-chao	41
	Japanese poets	44
	Saigyo	44
	Ikkyu	47
	Basho	49
	Buson	56
	Ryokan	58
	Issa	61
	Yosano Akiko	71
	Jaan Kaplinski	74
	The nets	81
	A lover's quarrel	81
	Gnostology	85
	A cold fire	87
	To Kevin, who mourns	88
	To John Logan from La Push	88
	Natural history	89
	Kah Tai Purgatorio	91
	Requiem	92
	George Seferis in Sonora	104
	Hellenic triptych	107
	A word for spring	109
	Reading Seferis	110
	Old bones	113
	Black marsh eclogue	114
	A dragon in the clouds	115
	The gift of tongues	116
	"True illumination is habitude"	117
	Historical romance	119
	Seated figure	127
	Dresden cattle	127
	Blue monody	128
	Getting it wrong again	146
	Scrutability	147
	Lifer	148
	Two pines	148
	Mountains and rivers without end	149
	Ten thousand sutras	149
	Kannon	151
	Destination zero	151
	What the water knows	165
	Three stitches	166
	To Gary Snyder	166
	To Adrienne Rich	170
	After Coltrane's "I'll get by"	173
	Seattle spring	173
	"One who studies the past ..."	174
	To Hayden Carruth	174
	Sisyphus	182
	To Hayden Carruth on his eightieth birthday	185
	To Bill and Kris	186
	Song and dance	189
	Weasel, crow, and coyote on the Dharma trail	191
	Why crows are noisy	192
	Rising	192
	Lost in translation	194
	To W. S. Merwin	195
	In memoriam, Morris Graves	197
	For Kyra Gray O'Daly	199
	All here	199
	Midsummer	199
	Seducing the sparrow	201
	New math	202
	The orchid flower	203
	Organic form	204
	Little epic elegy	204
	Not meaning, but being	205
	A woodsplitter's meditation	206
	To Amy, before her wedding	208
	Reply to T'ao Ch'ien	210
	The goldfinch	210
	Strawberry picking	211
	To Yoshinaga Sayuri	211
	The New York poem	213
	State of the union, 2003	215
	Poem in the margins of the Shoyo Roku	216
	Elegy	216
	Nothing quite so cold	217
	Sheepherder coffee	218
	Summer rain	218
	On being asked about retirement	220
	"Praise a fool and make him useful"	221
	A Pisan canto	222
	After a winter of grieving	255