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Tables of Contents for Collected Shorter Poems, 1946-1991
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
From The Crow and the Heart (1959)
The Wreck of the Circus Train
3
1
The Snow
3
2
The Fact of the Matter
5
2
Cappadocian Song
7
1
On a Certain Engagement South of Seoul
7
2
Sparrows
9
1
Summer's Early End at Hudson's Bay
10
1
The Buddhist Painter Prepares to Paint
10
2
Lines Written in an Asylum
12
2
Anxious View of a Tree
14
1
Reflexive
14
1
The Fat Lady
15
4
Return to Love
19
1
Incident of May
19
1
November: Indian Summer
20
1
The Sound of Snow
20
1
An Apology for Using the Word ``Heart'' in Too Many Poems
21
1
Museum Piece
22
1
The Birth of Venus
23
4
From The Norfolk Poems of Hayden Carruth (1962)
In Tobey Woods
27
1
The Wild Swans at Norfolk
27
1
Meadow House
28
2
Ho-Hum Again
30
1
Comparative Iconography
30
1
Purana, Meaning Once Upon a Time
30
2
On Canaan Mountain Meadow
32
1
Naming for Love
32
2
August 14, 1961
34
1
Adolf Eichmann
34
1
A Leaf from Mr. Dyer's Woods
35
1
Notes from Robin Hill Cottage
36
2
R. M. D.
38
3
From Nothing for Tigers (1965)
The Event Itself
41
1
The Master, Grieved with Age
41
1
Horologikos
42
1
The Saving Way
42
2
Burning Dawn
44
1
New Orleans
44
1
Anent Socrates, or Somebody
45
1
From Etudes De Plusieurs Paysages De L'ame
45
1
Billie Holiday
46
1
Algeria
46
2
Ontological Episode of the Asylum
48
1
Existence Before Essence
48
1
Alive
49
1
Essay on Marriage
49
2
Godhulivela
51
1
Light in the Locust Tree
52
1
Ekstase, Alptraum, Schlaf in Einem Nest Von Flammen
53
1
Spring Notes from Robin Hill
53
4
The Smallish Son
57
2
The President's Speech
59
1
Freedom and Discipline
60
5
From The Clay Hill Anthology (1970)
Selected Haiku
65
10
From From Snow and Rock, from Chaos (1973)
Dedication in These Days
75
1
I Could Take
75
1
French Hill
76
2
If it were not for you
78
1
Speaking for them
79
1
To Artemis
80
1
Tabula Rasa
81
1
Concerning Necessity
82
1
The Ravine
83
1
Homecoming
84
2
Once More
86
1
The Cows at Night
87
1
Emergency Haying
88
3
The Far-Removed Mountain Men
91
1
The Insomniac Sleeps Well for Once and
92
1
This Song
92
1
The Birds of Vietnam
93
2
The Baler
95
1
I Know, I Remember, But How Can I Help You
95
1
This Decoration
96
2
Too Tenuous
98
1
Rimrock, Where it is
99
1
Song
100
1
Twilight Comes
101
1
Abandoned Ranch, Big Bend
102
3
From Dark World (1974)
Eternal City
105
1
The Chase in Spring
105
1
In Russia
106
1
The Existing Pool
107
2
Spring 1967
109
1
Coming Down to the Desert at Lordsburg, N. M.
110
1
Thaw
111
1
Re-Acquaintance
112
1
Stepping Backward
113
1
Green Mountain Idyl
114
1
Poetical Abstracts
115
8
From The Bloomingdale Papers (1975 [written 1953])
Excerpts
123
20
From Brothers, I Loved you all (1978)
The Loon on Forrester's Pond
143
1
When Howitzers Began
144
1
August First
144
1
That I Had Had Courage When Young
145
1
Essay
146
1
The Joy and Agony of Improvisation
147
1
My Hut
148
1
In Memoriam
148
1
The Little Fire in the Woods
149
2
The Mountain Cabin
151
1
Family Reunion
152
1
The Mountain
153
2
Essay on Stone
155
2
Valentine
157
2
Once and Again
159
1
November Jeans Song
159
1
Simple
160
1
John Dryden
161
4
Johnny Spain's White Heifer
165
3
Lady
168
2
Marshall Washer
170
6
Crow's Mark
176
2
The Poet
178
1
Essay on Love
178
3
Missing the Bo in the Henhouse
181
1
Paragraphs
182
19
From If you Call This Cry a Song (1983)
Words in a Certain Appropriate Mode
201
1
I Tell you for Several Years of my Madness I Heard the Voice of Lilith Singing in the Trees of Chicago
202
1
On Being Asked to Write a Poem Against the War in Vietnam
203
1
Anima
204
2
The Point
206
1
Two Romantic Pieces
207
1
Bouquet in Dog Time
208
1
My Meadow
209
2
Regarding Chainsaws
211
2
Marvin Mccabe
213
4
Bears at Raspberry Time
217
2
Song: So Often, So Long I Have Thought
219
1
A Little Old Funky Homeric Blues for Herm
220
4
The Mouse
224
1
The Line
225
2
Almanach Du Printemps Vivarois
227
3
Song of the Two Crows
230
3
Mild Winter
233
1
Who Cares, Long as it's B-flat
234
1
Rummage
235
1
The Sorrow Song
235
3
Loneliness: An Outburst of Hexasyllables
238
7
Of Brook and Stone
245
1
Moon-Set
245
1
Afternoon of a Faun
246
4
They Accuse me of not Talking
250
1
The Cowshed Blues
250
7
From Asphalt Georgics (1985)
Names
257
15
How to
272
2
Lost
274
1
Lana
275
4
Marge
279
11
Cave Painting
290
2
New Hartford
292
2
Phone
294
2
Septic Tanck
296
2
Capper Kaplinski at the North Side Cue Club
298
1
Sam and Poll Go Back to the City
299
4
Shake, Well Before Using
303
6
From The Oldest Killed Lake in North America (1985)
The Oldest Killed Lake in North America
309
1
Unnatural Unselection
309
1
Eternity Blues
309
2
Fragment
311
1
For Papa
311
1
The Language of Flowers, Etc
312
1
When I Wrote a Little
312
1
All Things
313
1
Chicory
314
1
An Excursus of Reassurance in Begonia Time
314
2
Carnations
316
1
Song: The Old, Old Man
317
1
Song: The Famous Vision of America
318
1
Song: Luxury
318
1
Song: The Young Man with the Guitar, Testing
319
1
Song: So Why does this Dead Carnation
320
5
From Sonnets (1989)
A Selection
325
24
From Tell Me Again How the White Heron Rises and Flies Across the Nacreous River at Twilight Toward the Distant Islands (1989)
The Incorrigible Dirigible
349
1
Not Transhistorical Death, or at Least Not Quite
349
2
An Expatiation on the Combining of Weathers at Thirty-Seventh and Indiana Where the Southern More or Less Crosses the Dog
351
1
Sometimes when Lovers Lie Quietly Together, Unexpectedly One of Them Will Feel the Other's Pulse
352
1
The Impossible Indispensability of the Ars Poetica
352
1
Of Distress Being Humiliated by the Classical Chinese Masters
353
1
Survival as Tao, Beginning at 5:00 A. M.
354
1
Ovid, Old Buddy, I Would Discourse with you a While
355
1
The Sociology of Toyotas and Jade Chrysanthemums
356
1
``The World as Will and Representation''
357
1
To Know in Reverie the Only Phenomenology of the Absolute
358
1
Meditation in the Presence of ``Ostrich Walk''
358
1
No Supervening Thought of Grace
359
1
No Matter What, After all, and that Beautiful Word So
359
2
``Sure,'' Said Benny Goodman
361
1
A Post-Impressionist Susurration for the First of November, 1983
361
2
``I've Never Seen Such a Real Hard Time Before'': Three-Part Invention
363
1
Letter To Maxine Sullivan
364
1
Une Presence Absolue
365
1
How Lewisburg, Pa., Escaped the Avenging Angel
365
1
Underground the Darkness is the Light
366
1
Cross My Heart and Hope to Die, It was the Very Same Song Exactly
367
4
New Poems (1986-1991)
Living Alone
371
5
Pa Mccabe
376
2
What a Wonder Among the Instruments is the Walloping Tramboone
378
2
Continuo
380
1
A Backyard in California
380
1
Sonnet
381
1
Sonnet
381
1
Homage to John Lyly and Frankie Newton
382
1
Mix the Ingredients
382
1
The Bearer
383
1
Essay on Death
384
8
Songs About what Comes Down: The Complete Works of Mr. Septic Tanck
392
8
Silence
400
1
Sex
400
2
Pray You Young Woman
402
1
Assignment
402
1
Renaissance
403
1
August
404
2
Fourth
406
1
Listen
407
1
Aeolian
407
2
Gods
409
1
Opusthirteen
409
1
Block
410
2
Crucifixion
412
1
Three Songs
412
2
The Way of the Conventicle of the Trees
414
1
Questions
415
1
Ray
415
1
None
416
1
Woodsmoke at 70
417