The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry Book

	Introduction
	A Note on the Second Edition, 2003
	The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket	3
	Memories of West Street and Lepke	8
	Man and Wife	9
	Skunk Hour	10
	The Mouth of the Hudson	12
	For the Union Dead	13
	Waking Early Sunday Morning	15
	History	18
	The Nihilist as Hero	18
	Reading Myself	19
	Obit	19
	Fishnet	20
	Dolphin	20
	Epilogue	21
	The Bight	22
	Over 2,000 Illustrations and a Complete Concordance	23
	At the Fishhouses	25
	The Shampoo	28
	Brazil, January 1, 1502	28
	Under the Window: Ouro Preto	30
	The Armadillo	32
	Filling Station	33
	In the Waiting Room	34
	One Art	37
	Poem	38
	Cuttings	40
	Root Cellar	41
	The Shape of the Fire	41
	The Waking	44
	I Knew a Woman	45
	In a Dark Time	46
	The Moon and the Night and the Men	47
	From the Dream Songs (1, 4, 5, 14, 29, 46, 76, 77, 143, 257, 384)	48
	90 North	56
	Eighth Air Force	57
	The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner	58
	The Woman at the Washington Zoo	58
	Cinderella	59
	Next Day	60
	Well Water	62
	Masts at Dawn	63
	Birth of Love	65
	Rattlesnake Country	66
	Evening Hawk	72
	The Kingfishers	73
	For My Contemporaries	80
	To My Wife	81
	From a Century of Epigrams 9 (29, 53, 55, 62, 76)	81
	Night, Death, Mississippi	83
	Frederick Douglass	85
	Middle Passage	85
	Amsterdam Letter	91
	Cracked Looking Glass	93
	After Reading The Country of the Pointed Firs	94
	Teleology	97
	Unconscious Came a Beauty	98
	Stone Gullets	99
	Staying at Ed's Place	99
	Strawberrying	100
	A Poem Beginning With a Line by Pindar	101
	Styx	109
	The Illiterate	111
	Thoughts on One's Head	112
	Consequences	113
	Country Stars	115
	The Jain Bird Hospital in Delhi	115
	Storm Windows	117
	Writing	118
	Money	119
	The Dependencies	120
	Learning the Trees	121
	Because You Asked About the Line Between Prose and Poetry	122
	The War in the Air	123
	A Baroque Wall-Foundation in the Villa Sciarra	124
	Looking Into History	126
	Love Calls Us to the Things of This World	128
	Mind	129
	Advice to a Prophet	130
	Walking to Sleep	131
	Hamlen Brook	135
	Homework	136
	Into Mexico	137
	The Twins	138
	A View	139
	The Stream	141
	The Pruned Tree	145
	The Wars	146
	Menage a Trois	147
	Elegy for My Sister	149
	Rules of Sleep	152
	Einstein's Bathrobe	153
	The Heaven of Animals	155
	The Hospital Window	156
	The Sheep Child	158
	The Strength of Fields	160
	A Hill	162
	Third Avenue in Sunlight	163
	"More Light! More Light!"	164
	Peripeteia	165
	The Feast of Stephen	168
	The Crystal Lithium	170
	Shimmer	175
	Korean Mums	176
	Clouds	178
	The Ache of Marriage	179
	Intrusion	180
	Seeing for a Moment	180
	Prisoners	181
	Graves at Elkhorn	183
	The Lady in Kicking Horse Reservoir	184
	Degrees of Gray in Philipsburg	186
	The River Now	187
	An Afternoon at the Beach	188
	Amor Vincit Omnia	189
	From Autumn Shade (3, 6, 8, 9)	189
	A Muse of Water	192
	Amusing Our Daughters	194
	From Pro Feminia (I, II)	195
	The Evening of the Mind	198
	Men at Forty	199
	The Tourist from Syracuse	200
	Variations on a Text by Vallejo	201
	The Assassination	202
	Mule Team and Poster	202
	To the Harbormaster	204
	A Step Away from Them	205
	Meditations in an Emergency	206
	Why I Am Not a Painter	208
	The Day Lady Died	208
	Having a Coke With You	209
	Ave Maria	211
	The Best Slow Dancer	212
	The Naval Trainees Learn How to Jump Overboard	213
	The Excursion of the Speech and Hearing Class	214
	Five Dawn Skies in November	215
	Making Camp	215
	The Source	216
	I Know a Man	218
	The Rescue	219
	Air: "The Love of a Woman"	219
	For Friendship	220
	For Love	220
	Again	222
	The World	223
	From Howl (I)	225
	Sunflower Sutra	229
	My Sad Self	231
	Wales Visitation	233
	April Inventory	237
	From Heart's Needle (2, 6)	239
	Mementos, 1	241
	A Locked House	242
	A Renewal	244
	Voices from the Other World	245
	Days of 1964	246
	Willowware Cup	248
	Lost in Translation	249
	The Animals	256
	Some Last Questions	257
	The River of Bees	257
	For the Anniversary of My Death	258
	The Asians Dying	259
	For a Coming Extinction	260
	The Night of the Shirts	261
	Bread	261
	St. Vincent's	262
	He Held Radical Light	265
	Gravelly Run	266
	Corsons Inlet	267
	Reflective	271
	Terrain	271
	The City Limits	272
	Glazunoviana	274
	Soonest Mended	275
	As One Put Drunk Into the Packet-Boat	277
	Pyrography	278
	And Ut Pictura Poesis Is Her Name	281
	Syringa	282
	My Erotic Double	284
	At the Executed Murderer's Grave	286
	Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio	289
	Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy's Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota	290
	Beginning	290
	A Blessing	291
	In Response to a Rumor That the Oldest Whorehouse in Wheeling, West Virginia, Has Been Condemned	292
	A Winter Daybreak Above Vence	293
	Vapor Trail Reflected in the Frog Pond	295
	Last Songs	296
	The Bear	297
	After Making Love We Hear Footsteps	300
	The Man Splitting Wood in the Daybreak	301
	The Vow	302
	The Man on the Hotel Room Bed	302
	Her Kind	304
	Music Swims Back to Me	305
	The Truth the Dead Know	306
	The Starry Night	307
	With Mercy for the Greedy	307
	Wanting to Die	308
	The Room of My Life	310
	The Horse	311
	They Feed They Lion	313
	Belle Isle, 1949	314
	You Can Have It	314
	Rain Downriver	316
	Sweet Will	317
	Family History	320
	The Dream	324
	From All of Us Here	325
	The Night Mirror	328
	From Powers of Thirteen (3, 29, 69, 82, 87, 130)	329
	Swan and Shadow	333
	The Mad Potter	334
	The Venetian Interior, 1889	338
	At the Monument to Pierre Louys	342
	Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law	345
	Planetarium	349
	The Burning of Paper Instead of Children	351
	Paula Becker to Clara Westhoff	354
	For the Record	357
	For an Album	358
	Mid-August at Sourdough Mountain Lookout	359
	Riprap	360
	Burning Island	361
	The Bath	362
	I Went Into the Maverick Bar	365
	Axe Handles	366
	The Colossus	368
	The Hanging Man	369
	Morning Song	370
	Daddy	370
	Fever 103[degree]	373
	Ariel	375
	Lady Lazarus	376
	Edge	378
	Words	379
	Keeping Things Whole	381
	Coming to This	382
	The Prediction	382
	"The Dreadful Has Already Happened"	383