Dead Language

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. In Retrospect v
3. Contents xi
4. Poem 1
5. Nothing Is Ours 2
6. Ariadne 5
7. Repetitions Of A Young Captain 9
8. Old Haven 13
9. Among Old Letters 15
10. Chaplin's Sad Speech 17
11. The Words Lying Idle 20
12. Two Poems 31
13. Remembrance Of The Szeks, Paris, 1932 34
14. Victory 35
15. Poems 36
16. 1913-1946 40
17. Ode To The Chinese Paper Snake 47
18. More Poems For Liadoff 51
19. An Answer Questioned 60
20. Palm 62
21. Chatterly Comments 65
22. The Swarming Bees 66
23. Canto LXXXIV 68
24. Charles The Fifth And The Peasant 72
25. Listen. Put On Morning 73
26. Moving, By Iroads Moved... 77
27. Eighth Air Force 80
28. By "Disposition Of Angels 82
29. For Μ. M. 85
30. Question In red Ink 87
31. A Lost Poem 88
32. Dirge For The New Sunrise 90
33. The Cave-Drawing 92
34. Huckleberry Finn 94
35. The Hero 96
36. Chi E questa 100
37. The Good Servant 102
38. Theory Of The Pathetic 105
39. Mad Song 113
40. Luis De Camoes 115
41. Backgrounds To Italian Paintings: 15Th Century 116
42. The Skeleton In The Closet 117
43. Blind William 9S Song 122
44. Experimental & Formal Verse 124
45. The Pleasures Of Formal Poetry 128
46. The Bottles Become New, Too 138
47. Five Poems 145
48. Dactyls - - From Theocritus 149
49. September 155
50. Poem After Solstice 158
51. One Day's Rain 159
52. Glazunoviana 160
53. A Speech by Wallace Stevens 164
54. The Damaged Crop 167
55. Thought By Rembrandt's Wife And Model During The Painting Of 'Flora' 172
56. All Of December Toward New Year's 176
57. The Fourth Echo 180
58. Brainstorm 182
59. Aus Einer Kindheit 188
60. Arete's Speech To Odysseus 191
61. The Doodler 192
62. Lauderdale 194
63. A Vanished House 195
64. Old Lady With A Rosary On The Bus To Puebla 196
65. Temptation 199
66. A Tombstone Carved From Speech 200
67. Poem 202
68. A Flat One 204
69. Microcosm 210
70. Wrapping 211
71. Near Darien 212
72. Art Of The Sonnet: LXIX 216
73. Arsenio 217
74. The Air Of November 219
75. Some Places In America Are Anonymous 222
76. Keen To Leaky Flowers 224
77. Now Name The Season Blackberry 225
78. From The Mabinogion 232
79. Summer's End 239
80. In And Out Museums 242
81. Lines For My Grandmother's Grave 243
82. Poems On The Voyage 245
83. Love Letter 250
84. Moving The Walls 251
85. Two Voices 255
86. To The Poor 257
87. The Constant 261
88. Fox Blood 264
89. Confessions of a Peeping Tom 267
90. Note In Lieu Of A Suicide 268
91. "And Can Ye Sing Baluloo When The Bairn Greets" 269
92. Bats 273
93. The Voyager 276
94. The Earth Worm 280
95. Poem Written After Contemplating The Adverb "Primarily" 282
96. Skin 286
97. The Matchmaker In Flight 287
98. Three Conversations 288
99. For Job At Forty 291
100. My Varents Were Simple Folk 293
101. In Memoriam 296
102. A Midsummer Nightmare 297
103. Dead Language 300
104. The Crucified Swimmer 305
105. Nocturne 306
106. Reading A Poem By Walt Whitman I Discover We Are Surrounded By Companions 310
107. Days Of 1964 313
108. The Neighbor's Son 316
109. A Reckoning With Fall 318
110. The Old Nostalgia 320
111. Leda Reconsidered 321
112. Xenia 325
113. Developments 330
114. St. Ann's Gut 332
115. Again, Again 333
116. Definition 334
117. Unencumbered 335
118. Suite By The River 338
119. Friends 341
120. S. Miniato: One By Aretino 344
121. Traveller 347
122. Montana 350
123. Lines For Michael In The Picture 354
124. Rain 359
125. Old Dreams 360
126. Letting Him Go 361
127. As For The World 367
128. Three Travelogues 370
129. 1966: The Stone Mason's Funeral 374
130. The Far-Removed Mountain Men 378
131. The Drunkard's Prayer 382
132. The Midget 383
133. In Memory Of William Carlos Williams 384
134. Achilles And Penthesileia 386
135. The Stonecutter's Resignation 387
136. Man With Birds 391
137. ... & Testament 392
138. We Assume 396
139. Going The Rounds: A Sort Of Love Poem 398
140. Pastoral Remains (Hitherto Unpublished) From The Rectory 401
141. Crow Lore CROW'S FIRST Lesson 406
142. Reversals 410
143. Reading Cavafy In Translation 412
144. Why We Are Truly A Nation 414
145. Kostas Tympakianakis 416
146. Lark 418
147. Conversation With Marianne Moore 425
148. Scratching Bites 443
149. Poem For Valery Larbaud 445
150. From Three Women, A Radio-Play 447
151. Gabriel 449
152. Tuesday 453
153. Song For A Red Nightgown 456
154. Into Mexico 460
155. The Agent 466
156. A First Epistle To Eva Hesse 469
157. Family Scenes 477
158. The Night Calling 481
159. The ANTI-LIFE : A Fantasty 483
160. That Train 486
161. Poem 488
162. At E. 'S Home In Vresice 490
163. Hunting Near A Strip Mine 493
164. At The Jewish Museum 495
165. Night 497
166. Some Canvases That Will Retain Their Calm even in the Catastrophe 501
167. The Old Man's Hornpipe 503
168. A Campfire And Ants 504
169. Stirring 507
170. Impressions 509
171. The Last Thing 510
172. To Harvey, Who Traced The Circulation 512
173. Poems 514
174. Waiting For The Barbarians 520
175. Leap-Centuries 525
176. Studies For An Actress 528
177. An Encounter 535
178. Subversion 539
179. Increasing Night 540
180. ASH 544
181. Dark On Dark 546
182. Rendezvous 554
183. Hard Times 555
184. Life And Death Jean Garrigue (1914-1972) 556