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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- CONTENTS ix
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xi
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I. THE ENEMY
- Dialogue with Sun and Poet 3
- Addressed to Her (Provincetown, June 2002) 4
- ‘‘Elsa, Varadero, 1934’’ 5
- Night Has Fallen 6
- Personal Mythology 7
- Piranhas 8
- Brief Treatise on the New Millennial Poetics 10
- El Viejo y la Mar 12
- Ode to the Man Incidentally Caught in the Photograph of Us on My Desk 13
- The Enemy 14
- God, Gays, and Guns 15
- Patriotic Poem 17
- Post–9/11 Parable 18
- Sestina Dolorosa 19
- What Passes Now for Moral Discourse 21
- from Libro de Preguntas 22
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II. EIGHTEEN DAYS IN FRANCE
- Eighteen Days in France 27
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III. TOWARD A THEORY OF MEMORY
- from Cien Sonetos de Amor 47
- A Simple Cuban Meal 51
- The Sailfish 52
- Ganymede, to Zeus 53
- After the Long Drive 55
- For Jorge, after Twenty Years 57
- Song in the Off-Season 60
- Catastrophic Sestina 61
- Toward a Theory of Memory 63
- Patagonia 67
- Defense of Marriage 68
- The Story of Us 69
- The Sodomite’s Lament 71
- Equinoctial Downpour 72
- Pantoum for Our Imagined Break-Up 73
- The Changing of the Seasons 74
- Once, It Seemed Better 75
- October, Last Sail 76
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IV. DAWN, NEW AGE
- Dawn, New Age 79
- Allegorical 80
- Progress 81
- The Crocuses 82
- Crybaby Haiku 83
- ‘‘SILENCE = DEATH’’ 87
- Clinical Vignettes 88
- You Bring Out the Doctor in Me 90
- Composite of Three Poems from the Same Anthology by Williams, Rukeyser, and Sexton 92
- Tuesday Morning 93
- Arriving 95
- Absolution 97
- On Doctoring 98
- Sick Day 99
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- CONTENTS ix
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xi
-
I. THE ENEMY
- Dialogue with Sun and Poet 3
- Addressed to Her (Provincetown, June 2002) 4
- ‘‘Elsa, Varadero, 1934’’ 5
- Night Has Fallen 6
- Personal Mythology 7
- Piranhas 8
- Brief Treatise on the New Millennial Poetics 10
- El Viejo y la Mar 12
- Ode to the Man Incidentally Caught in the Photograph of Us on My Desk 13
- The Enemy 14
- God, Gays, and Guns 15
- Patriotic Poem 17
- Post–9/11 Parable 18
- Sestina Dolorosa 19
- What Passes Now for Moral Discourse 21
- from Libro de Preguntas 22
-
II. EIGHTEEN DAYS IN FRANCE
- Eighteen Days in France 27
-
III. TOWARD A THEORY OF MEMORY
- from Cien Sonetos de Amor 47
- A Simple Cuban Meal 51
- The Sailfish 52
- Ganymede, to Zeus 53
- After the Long Drive 55
- For Jorge, after Twenty Years 57
- Song in the Off-Season 60
- Catastrophic Sestina 61
- Toward a Theory of Memory 63
- Patagonia 67
- Defense of Marriage 68
- The Story of Us 69
- The Sodomite’s Lament 71
- Equinoctial Downpour 72
- Pantoum for Our Imagined Break-Up 73
- The Changing of the Seasons 74
- Once, It Seemed Better 75
- October, Last Sail 76
-
IV. DAWN, NEW AGE
- Dawn, New Age 79
- Allegorical 80
- Progress 81
- The Crocuses 82
- Crybaby Haiku 83
- ‘‘SILENCE = DEATH’’ 87
- Clinical Vignettes 88
- You Bring Out the Doctor in Me 90
- Composite of Three Poems from the Same Anthology by Williams, Rukeyser, and Sexton 92
- Tuesday Morning 93
- Arriving 95
- Absolution 97
- On Doctoring 98
- Sick Day 99