In Emily Dickinson’s Bedroom

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. From These People (1981)
5. Who’s on First? 3
6. Hannah 7
7. Mug Shots 8
8. A Philosophical Problem 11
9. The Wanderer 15
10. 78’s 21
11. The Recital 22
12. Self-Portrait 25
13. From Goodnight, Gracie (1992)
14. Leaves 29
15. Gisela Brüning 31
16. In the Mist 39
17. House Hunting 40
18. At the Window (from “Crossing the Rockies”) 50
19. Fourteen People 53
20. Goodnight, Gracie 62
21. Love 65
22. Pseudodoxia Epidemica 68
23. Simple Questions 73
24. From Cairo Traffic (2000)
25. A True Poem 83
26. Friendly Song (“Cançao Amiga”) 85
27. She Forgets 86
28. The Two Horses (A Memory) 89
29. He Tells His Mother What He’s Working On 93
30. The Two Churches (A Dream) 95
31. Pornography 100
32. Proverbs from Purgatory 107
33. The Dream During My Mother’s Recuperation 111
34. No Orpheus 114
35. Her Waltz 117
36. Nostalgia (The Lake at Night) 118
37. Song 121
38. Renato’s Dream 122
39. Temple of Dendur, Metropolitan Museum of Art (from “Cairo Traffic”) 123
40. From Little Kisses (2017)
41. Little Kisses 127
42. My Other Grandmother 131
43. Lost Causes 133
44. The Conductor 137
45. Goldring 139
46. Crossword 145
47. Six Words 146
48. Is Light Enough? 148
49. New Name 149
50. La Valse 150
51. Tehran Spring 151
52. Small Airport In Brazil 156
53. In Flight 158
54. To My Oldest Friend, Whose Silence Is Like A Death 160
55. Jerry Garcia in a Somerville Parking Lot 162
56. New Poems (2001–2021)
57. Vermeer’s Pearl 167
58. Escher: Still Life With Mirror (1934) 170
59. The World 171
60. God Hour (Eric Lundquist: In Memoriam) 172
61. Harvest 179
62. In Emily Dickinson’s Bedroom 181
63. My Doctor’s Death 182
64. Lubitsch’s Angel 184
65. Ralph Hamilton’s Faces 188
66. Titian’s Marsyas 191
67. The Rehearsal 193
68. Astronomer 195
69. Notes 201