Hammer and Blaze: A Gathering of Contemporary American Poets Book

	Preface
	In a Trunk Not Looked into for Twenty Years	1
	South Woods in October, with the Spiders of Memory	3
	Cycladic Figure	4
	Renovated Zoo, Now Called Habitat	5
	To Charlotte Bronte	7
	Slipping	8
	Persephone	9
	Full Flower Moon	10
	Up To	11
	Wide-Eyed Look	12
	"Some Vision of the World Cashmere"	13
	The Last Saffron	14
	Ghazal	16
	After the Auction of My Grandmother's Farm	18
	Chequamegon	19
	Chronic Town	20
	Imaginary	21
	Carpathian Frontier	22
	River	23
	Praying with George Herbert in Late Winter	24
	Reading Frank O'Hara in the Hospital	26
	Evening Song	27
	Benton's Clouds	28
	Ohio Fields after Rain	30
	Treatise on Touch	31
	Bad Cello	34
	I Imagine the Mortician	35
	Bones Not of This Puny World	36
	Lament	39
	Dreampoem 3	41
	Dreampoem 4	42
	Dreampoem 6	42
	Dreampoem 7	43
	Dreampoem 8	44
	Dreampoem 10	45
	My Religion	47
	Flexion of God	48
	God's Name	50
	The Wolf God	51
	God's Ardor	52
	Argos	53
	Brave Sparrow	54
	My Crucifixion	56
	The Barber	57
	Bardo	58
	The Other	59
	Final Season	59
	Nocturne with Witch, Oven and Two Little Figures	61
	My Crow, Your Crow	63
	For Lear	63
	The God Who Loves You	65
	A Priest of Hermes	66
	Not the Idle	67
	Gelati	68
	The Moth	70
	Crooked Wood	72
	How to Like It	75
	His Favorite Blue Cup	76
	How It Was at the End	77
	(His life was the practice)	78
	No Moment Past This One	78
	A Postmortem Guide	80
	Burying the Cat	81
	Oklahoma City	83
	Poe in Margate	84
	Chekhov in Port Republic	85
	The Dig	86
	The Burial	87
	Inside gertrude stein	88
	The White Dress	89
	All the People in Hopper's Paintings	91
	The Machinist, Teaching His Daughter to Play the Piano	93
	Old Men Playing Basketball	94
	The Great Gizzardo	96
	Lord of the Jungle, Larva-Nude	97
	Herkimer, Mohawk, et al., in Autumn	97
	Australia	98
	What We Wait For	99
	Faces Underwater	99
	Bang!	101
	Wake	102
	Spring	103
	Barukh ata adonay	104
	Nothing Doing	105
	The Fidgeting	106
	Gouge, Adze, Rasp, Hammer	107
	The Actual Moon, The Actual Stars	108
	The St. Louis Zoo	111
	Komodo	112
	Compatibility	114
	Scorn	115
	Requin	115
	Blue Annunciation	117
	Ghazal	118
	I Not I	119
	Down There, If You Look	120
	Envoi	121
	Mock Orange	122
	Celestial Music	123
	The Wild Iris	124
	Ithaca	125
	Nest	125
	The Education	129
	I Was Looking	130
	What They Are	131
	The Visitation	132
	The Knife Accuses the Wound	134
	Grammatical Mood	135
	Cord	138
	Submersible	141
	I Am	142
	Sackcloth	142
	God's World, 1927	143
	Rotgut	144
	Scrolls	145
	The Desire Manuscripts	146
	America	151
	Carnal Knowledge	152
	Lucky	153
	Lawrence	155
	Jet	156
	Prayer	158
	A Certain Light	158
	Reading Ovid	160
	Practicing	161
	What the Living Do	162
	Do Not Leave Baby Unattended	164
	Joy	165
	Small Boys Petting Caterpillar	167
	The Satyr's Heart	169
	Blacklegs	169
	Sheep Child	171
	The South Gate	172
	Elegy	173
	Sheet Music	174
	Linear	176
	Impetus	179
	Balm	179
	2. Caravaggio: Swirl & Vortex	182
	7. Coda: Kind of Blue	185
	Portrait	187
	Beauty School	187
	Henry Clay's Mouth	188
	Tactile	189
	Pre-Cerebral	190
	Bonehead	190
	The Orange	191
	Because This Is Florida	192
	The Zebra Longwing	193
	Benediction for the Savior of Orlando	194
	Past All Understanding	197
	The Looker	198
	Etymological Dirge	199
	What He Thought	200
	Just Some	202
	Havana Dream	203
	Amor Vincit Omnia	203
	Venus in Varadero	204
	The Peasant Heart	204
	Before the Solutions	205
	End of the Affair	205
	Butterflies That Save Us from Ourselves	206
	Reverie: The Saturday Evening Post	207
	Nature Rarely Confides in Me	209
	Bolt from the Blue: A Sequence	212
	(Trauma) Storm	214
	Screaming Out Loud	215
	Almost a Loneliness	216
	How Smoothly	216
	Be-All	217
	Ovidian	218
	Confession 1.8.13	218
	Confession 10.8.13	219
	Confession 4.2.3	219
	Two Sisters	220
	Confession 2.5.10	221
	Inseminator Man	222
	Lost Innocence of the Potato Givers	225
	From the Devotions	227
	The Kill	229
	Trade	231
	Section 1 from Plot	233
	Cerberus	239
	The Sofia Buslot	240
	Bulgarian Girl	241
	Striking a Match	241
	Redbird, Soon in the Morning	242
	The Wine-Dark Sea	243
	Reminder	244
	A Good Father	244
	A Two-Year-Old Girl in a Restaurant	245
	Birthday	246
	Every Sunday	246
	Wings of the Morning	247
	The Present Perfect	248
	American Solitude	250
	Last Requests	252
	Poem Ending with a Phrase from the Psalms	253
	Definition of the Soul	254
	After Surgery	255
	Mop String	256
	History	257
	Front Street	257
	The Burned Boy	258
	Augusto Jandolo: On Excavating an Etruscan Tomb	260
	Newsreel	261
	Prayer	263
	The Dreamhouse	264
	Red Dog	266
	Of Oystermen, Workboats	267
	Night Pleasures	268
	Making a Statement	269
	Descending	269
	At the Vet's	271
	Dead Moth in a Bottle of Mineral Water	272
	Tatyana	272
	Encounter on an Italian Beach	273
	Lost Life	274
	A Night in Assisi	276
	The Seasons	278
	Two Brief Views of Hell	278
	Let me tell you about my marvelous god	280
	The Sea of Time and Space	281
	Vessel: Mythos	284
	Myth of the Flood	285
	Hunger for Something	286
	Decade	286
	Erotic Energy	287
	To the Reader: Polaroids	288
	To the Reader: If You Asked Me	288
	To the Reader: Twilight	289
	The path between	290
	The Night Sea	290
	I have lived in your face	290
	One Foot in the Dark	291
	A linnet in the rain	291
	The Passing	292
	The Art of Distance, I	293
	The Art of Distance, II	294
	The Art of Distance, VI	296
	Largesse	297
	Linda Does My Horoscope	299
	Where the Hills Come Down Like a Lion's Paw on Summer	302
	Tidepools, Part 2	303
	The Muse	305
	Field of Vision	306
	Epitaph	307
	Facing into It	308
	Of a Sun She Can Remember	310
	German Chronicle	311
	The Pumpkin Tree	317
	About Language	318
	Dark Forest	319
	The Longing of Eagles	321
	Sunflower	323
	The River Merchant, Stuck in Kalamazoo, Writes His Wife a Letter During Her Semester Abroad	324
	I Can Hardly Be Considered a Reliable Witness	325
	How I Get My Ideas	326
	Acknowledgments	329
	Contributors' Notes	337