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Tables of Contents for Selected Poems
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
ix
2
EDITORS' INTRODUCTION
xi
POEMS
3
144
Portraits of a Minyan
3
6
Out of the Pulver and the Polished Lens
9
4
Design for Mediaeval Tapestry
13
8
Haggadah
21
3
Plumaged Proxy
24
1
Scribe
25
1
A Benediction
26
1
Would That Three Centuries Past Had Seen Us Born
27
1
These Northern Stars Are Scarabs in My Eyes
28
1
Now We Will Suffer Loss of Memory
28
1
Saturday Night
29
1
Dialogue
29
1
Market Song
30
1
Heirloom
31
1
Bestiary
32
1
Ballad of the Dancing Bear
33
11
Baal Shem Tov
44
1
Elijah
45
1
Scholar
46
1
The Venerable Bee
47
1
Rev Owl
48
1
Orders
49
1
Diary of Abraham Segal, Poet
49
8
from 'Of Castles in Spain'
57
1
from 'Barricade Smith: His Speeches'
57
4
In Re Solomon Warshawer
61
6
A Psalm of Abraham, When He Hearkened to a Voice, and There Was None
67
1
A Psalm of Abraham, When He Was Sore Pressed
68
1
A Prayer of the Afflicted, When He Is Overwhelmed
68
1
A Psalm of Abraham, concerning That Which He Beheld upon the Heavenly Scarp
69
1
Grace before Poison
70
1
To the Chief Musician, Who Played for the Dancers
71
1
A Prayer of Abraham, against Madness
72
1
A Psalm of Abraham of That Which Was Visited upon Him
73
1
A Psalm to Teach Humility
73
1
A Psalm or Prayer -- Praying His Portion with Beasts
74
1
A Psalm of Abraham, to Be Written Down and Left on the Tomb of Rashi
75
2
A Psalm Touching Genealogy
77
1
Ballad of the Days of the Messiah
77
1
from The Hitleriad
78
8
Autobiographical
86
3
Montreal
89
3
Les Vespasiennes
92
1
Dentist
93
1
Basic English
94
2
Bread
96
1
And in That Drowning Instant
97
1
Sonnet Unrhymed
98
1
Portrait of the Poet as Landscape
99
6
The Rocking Chair
105
1
The Provinces
106
1
The Cripples
107
1
The Snowshoers
108
1
For the Sisters of the Hotel Dieu
109
1
Grain Elevator
110
1
Universite de Montreal
111
1
The Sugaring
112
1
Indian Reservation: Caughnawaga
113
1
Krieghoff: Calligrammes
114
1
Political Meeting
115
2
Frigidaire
117
1
Dress Manufacturer: Fisherman
118
1
The Break-up
119
1
Winter Night: Mount Royal
120
1
Lookout: Mount Royal
121
1
The Mountain
122
1
Lone Bather
123
2
Pastoral of the City Streets
125
1
M. Bertrand
126
1
Monsieur Gaston
127
1
Doctor Drummond
128
1
Parade of St. Jean Baptiste
129
3
Cantabile
132
2
Sestina on the Dialectic
134
1
Meditation upon Survival
135
1
Elegy
136
5
Who Hast Fashioned
141
1
Benedictions
142
1
Stance of the Amidah
142
2
Of the Making of Gragers
144
1
Spinoza: On Man, on the Rainbow
145
2
TRANSLATIONS OF BIALIK
147
6
O Thou Seer, Go Flee Thee -- Away
147
1
A Spirit Passed before Me
148
1
Stars Flicker and Fall in the Sky
149
4
NOTES
153
36
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
189
2
INDEX OF TITLES
191
4
INDEX OF FIRST LINES
195