The American voice anthology of poetry Book

	Preface
	Acknowledgments
	The Text Is Flesh	1
	What I Learned in the Wars	4
	One of Us	6
	The Heart of Quang Duc	7
	One of Lee's Soldiers	9
	Laborare Est Orare	10
	Sacred Heart	11
	Evensong	12
	Fixing the Barn	14
	Woman Ironing	16
	"For Those Dead, Our Dead ..."	17
	The Long Way Around	19
	The Week	20
	Autumn Leaves	21
	Lady of the Haystack	22
	For a Birthday	24
	Poem of the Foreigners' Moment in Our Jungle	25
	Broadway	27
	So Much of My Garden Is Iris	30
	Anoint the Ariston	31
	Puritans	33
	Gravity	35
	Lynx Light	38
	Where Blind Sorrow Is Taught to See	39
	My Mother's Clothes	41
	Sonnet for the Last Empress of China	42
	By the Waters of Babylon	43
	Against Elegies	44
	Cape Light	49
	Drum	50
	One Note Tolling	51
	A Court Proposal	53
	Winter Apples	54
	The Music Lesson	55
	After the Hurricane	57
	Deadline	58
	Camouflaging the Chimera	60
	Persistent Heat	62
	The Wandering Words	63
	Aphasia	64
	A Story	65
	In that Desert	66
	For Ishi	67
	Silence	68
	Guatemala, Your Name	69
	Skull-Light	71
	Quilt of Rights	72
	Snafu	73
	The New Stove	74
	Woman, Embracing Tree	75
	Animal Catechism	76
	The Evening News	78
	Redemption Songs	87
	Willow	89
	To a Daughter Leaving Home	90
	Dead Waters	91
	The Dream of Salt	92
	Sarah Shawcross	93
	Goodbye to Robert Graves	94
	Avec Amour	95
	Backcountry	99
	Small Talk	101
	In Memoriam	103
	Lies	105
	Entry	106
	Apples in the Well	107
	Metamorphosis	108
	Graveyard Quilt	109
	The Lone Pedestrian	110
	The Dialectic of Snow in the Phases of Wonder	118
	In Memory of a Closed House	119
	The World Is	120
	An Unceasing Flow of Tears	122
	X: For Patrick Henisse, Dead of AIDS, In Memory	123
	Amma's Ruby	124
	Invitation	125
	Exile: Jerusalem	128
	Sonya	129
	Mother's Day	130