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Tables of Contents for Eating the Honey of Words
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
I: Early Poems (1950--55)
Seasons in the North Woods
3
1
A Home in Dark Grass
4
1
Living in the Fire
5
1
When the Dumb Speak
6
1
Where We Must Look for Help
7
1
A Dispute
8
1
Awakening
9
1
Unrest
10
1
Three Choral Stanzas
11
1
A Poem for the Drunkard President
12
3
II: Silence in the Snowy Fields (1958--78)
Waiting for Night to Come
15
1
Night
16
1
Snowfall in the Afternoon
17
1
A Private Fall
18
1
Late at Night During a Visit of Friends
19
1
Old Boards
20
1
Solitude Late at Night in the Woods
21
1
Surprised by Evening
22
1
Three Kinds of Pleasures
23
1
The Call Away
24
1
After Drinking All Night with a Friend, We Go Out in a Boat at Dawn to See Who Can Write the Best Poem
25
1
Poem in Three Parts
26
1
Watering the Horse
26
1
Driving to Town Late to Mail a Letter
27
1
Waking from Sleep
27
1
Driving Toward the Lac Qui Parle River
28
1
Love Poem
29
1
``Taking the Hands''
29
1
First Snowfall
29
1
After Working
30
1
A Man Writes to a Part of Himself
31
1
Depression
32
1
The Mansion
33
1
After Long Busyness
34
1
The Moon
34
1
Thinking of Tu Fu's Poem
35
1
After Spending a Week Alone
36
1
Winter Privacy Poems at the Shack
37
2
Moses's Basket
39
1
Passing an Orchard by Train
40
4
III: The Light Around the Body (1957--70)
Confusions
44
2
Winter Afternoon in Greenwich Village
46
1
Calling to the Badger
47
1
Sleet Storm on the Merritt parkway
48
1
Melancholia
49
1
Three Presidents
50
2
The Executive's Death
52
1
Smothered by the World
53
1
Come with Me
54
1
A Pint of Whisky and Five Cigars
55
1
Those Being Eaten by America
56
1
Written in Dejection Near Rome
57
1
Max Ernst and the Tortoise's Beak
58
1
Evolution from the Fish
59
1
Looking into a Face
60
1
A Month of Happiness
60
1
The Celtic Church
61
1
Opening an Oyster on Rue Jacob
62
1
Romans Angry About the Inner World
63
1
As the Asian War Begins
64
1
Counting Small-Boned Bodies
65
1
Hatred of Men with Black Hair
66
1
Johnson's Cabinet Watched by Ants
67
1
After the Industrial Revolution, All Things Happen at Once
68
1
Hurrying Away From the Earth
69
4
IV: The Teeth Mother Naked at Last (1970--72)
The Teeth Mother Naked at Last
73
12
V: The Point Reyes Poems (1965--84)
November Day at McClure's Beach
85
1
The Starfish
86
2
Driving West in 1970
88
1
Welcoming a Child in the Limantour Dunes
89
1
Climbing up Mount Vision with My Little Boy
90
1
Calm Morning at Drake's Bay
91
1
Trespassing on the Pierce Ranch
92
1
The Dead Seal
93
2
An Octopus
95
1
The Hockey Poem
96
4
Two Sounds When We Sit by the Ocean
100
1
Sitting on Some Rocks in Shaw Cove
101
1
Looking at a Dead Wren in My Hand
102
1
A Hollow Tree
102
1
August Rain
103
1
Warning to the Reader
104
1
The Mushroom
105
1
A Chunk of Amethyst
106
3
VI: Loving a Woman in Two Worlds (1973--81)
The Third Body
109
1
The Horses at the Tank
110
1
The Whole Moisty Night
110
1
One Morning
111
1
Winter Poem
112
1
At Midocean
113
1
Listening to the Koln Concert
114
1
Love Poem in Twos and Threes
115
1
Poem on Sleep
116
1
The Horse of Desire
117
2
Conversation with a Holy Woman Not Seen for Many Years
119
1
Two Middle-Aged Lovers
119
1
In Rainy September
120
1
The Indigo Bunting
121
1
In the Time of Peony Blossoming
122
1
The Moose
123
1
The Ram
123
1
The Eagle
124
1
The Heron Drinking
124
1
In the Month of May
125
1
A Dream of an Afternoon with a Woman I Did Not Know
126
1
Love Poem About a Spinning Wheel
127
1
The Storm
128
1
A Man and a Woman and a Blackbird
129
2
The Ant on the Board
131
1
A Love That I Have in Secret
132
1
The Red Sea
133
1
Come Live with Me
133
1
An Evening When the Full Moon Rose as the Sun Set
134
3
VII: This Body Is Made of Camphor and Gopherwood (1973--80)
Walking Swiftly
137
1
Blessing on the Body's Inner Furnace
138
1
Wings Folding Up
139
1
Going Out to Check the Ewes
140
1
Four Adventures of the Soul
141
1
We Love This Body
142
1
Finding the Father
143
1
The Cry Going Out Over Pastures
144
1
The Owlets at Nightfall
145
1
The Lover's Body as a Community of Protozoa
146
2
The Orchard Keeper
148
1
Blessings on the Dweller
149
4
VIII: The Man in the Black Coat Turns (1980--84)
Snowbanks North of the House
153
1
The Sense of Decline
154
1
Night Frogs
155
1
My Wife's Painting
156
2
Visiting Emily Dickinson's Grave with Robert Francis
158
2
Mourning Pablo Neruda
160
3
Fifty Men Sitting Together
163
3
The Visit to Hawaii
166
4
The Winemaker and the Captain
170
2
The Prodigal Son
172
1
Eleven O'Clock at Night
173
2
Kennedy's Inauguration
175
3
An Anecdote About My Father
178
1
Kneeling Down to Look into a Culvert
179
1
Words Rising
180
5
IX: Meditations on the Insatiable Soul (1990--94)
Time Runs Backward After Death
185
1
Visiting My Father
186
12
In the Funeral Home
198
3
A Week After Your Death
201
1
St. George and the Dragon
202
2
When William Stafford Died
204
1
Gratitude to Old Teachers
205
1
The Dark Egg
206
1
Drinking the Water
207
1
Thoughts in the Cabin
208
3
X: Morning Poems (1993--97)
Why We Don't Die
211
1
Early Morning in Your Room
212
1
Calling Your Father
213
1
The Shocks We Put Our Pitchforks Into
214
1
Conversation with the Soul
215
1
The Yellow Dot
216
1
Three-Day Fall Rain
217
1
What Jesus Said
218
1
When Threshing Time Ends
219
1
Tasting Heaven
220
1
Wallace Stevens and Florence
221
1
The Waltz
222
1
Looking at the Stars
223
1
Waking on the Farm
224
1
What the Animals Paid
225
1
For Ruth
226
1
The Man Who Didn't Know What Was His
227
1
Thinking About Old Jobs
228
1
Conversation with a Monster
229
1
The Resemblance Between Your Life and a Dog
230
1
It Is So Easy to Give In
231
1
The Green Cookstove
232
1
The Russian
233
1
The Face in the Toyota
234
1
Two Ways to Write Poems
235
1
One Source of Bad Information
236
1
My Doubts on Going to Visit a New Friend
237
1
Visiting Sand Island
238
1
A Week of Poems at Bennington
239
5
All These Stories
244
1
Things to Think
245
1
The Glimpse of Something in the Oven
246
1
It's As If Someone Else Is with Me
247
2
When My Dead Father Called
249
1
Words the Dreamer Spoke to My Father in Maine
250
1
Looking at Aging Faces
251
2
At Christmas Poem
253
1
People Like Us
254
1
The Neurons Who Watch Birds
255
1
Bad People
256
1
Wanting More Applause at a Conference
257
1
A Conversation with a Mouse
258
3
XI: New Poems (1997--98)
Poem for Eudalia
261
1
Going Home with the World
262
1
An Afternoon in June
263
1
A Poem Beginning with a Line by Seal Scholars
264
1
The Dog That Pursues Us
265
1
The Day We Visited New Orleans
266
1
A Dog, a Policeman, and the Spanish Poetry Reading
267
2
Thinking of Gitanjali
269
1
The Donkey's Ear
270