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Tables of Contents for The Caged Owl
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
New Poems
Heart
5
1
Here
6
1
(Trauma) Storm
7
1
Screaming Out Loud
8
1
Tin Cup
9
1
Bolt from the Blue
10
3
What I'm Saying
13
1
The River
14
1
Paradise
15
1
Some Part of the Lyric
16
1
Some Notes on Shadows
17
9
The Journey
26
2
Fall
28
1
Two Poems about Nothing
29
2
Nothing and the Incident in the Streets
31
6
A Dream of Fifty
37
1
Shaky Spectrum
38
1
The Talk
39
1
The Excavation
40
2
If There's a God...
42
2
To My Father, Dying
44
1
Celestial Desolations
45
1
Best
46
1
Wild Heart
47
1
Paradise Lightning Dazzle
48
5
Be-all
53
4
from Burning the Empty Nests (1973)
Washing My Face
57
1
Silence
58
1
``Transients Welcome''
59
1
The Girl with Eighteen Nightgowns
60
1
The Doll
61
1
Getting Dressed
62
1
Manhattan Island Poem
63
1
A Parable
64
1
The Dinner
65
1
The Bridge
66
1
Love Poem
67
1
The Room
68
1
Making Beasts
69
1
Poem to the Mother
70
1
The Fast
71
1
Going Out
72
1
Line Written in Dejection, Oklahoma
73
1
Daffodil Poem
74
1
Sleeping Alone in a Small Room
75
1
October
76
1
Trying to Sleep
77
1
Singing the Pain Back into the Wound
78
1
Poem
79
1
Beginning
80
3
from Gathering the Bones Together (1975)
Gathering the Bones Together
83
3
A Life
86
1
The Cage
87
1
The Snail
88
1
Two Lines from the Brothers Grimm
89
1
The Hats
90
1
Domestic Life
91
2
The King of the Earthworms
93
1
The Sweater
94
1
A Large White Rock Called ``The Sleeping Angel''
95
1
All Morning
96
1
The Builders
97
1
Overtaken by Fog While Climbing
98
1
Like Any Other Man
99
4
from The Red House (1980)
The Lost Children
103
4
from The Red House
Morning Song
107
1
The Ditch
108
2
Neighbors
110
1
Work Gloves
111
1
The Brave Child
112
1
Adolescence
113
1
Horses
114
1
Sunday School Picnic: What Endures
115
1
Walking Home after the First Encounter
116
1
The Migrant Camps
117
1
Memorial Day
118
1
After a Death
119
1
Driving Home after a Funeral
120
1
Song of the Invisible Corpse in the Field
121
1
Spring Floods
122
1
In Haiti
123
3
Song: Early Death of the Mother
126
1
The Weeds
127
1
A Half-Dead Black Cherry Tree across the Road from My Childhood House
128
2
Three Songs
130
2
There
132
1
Beggar's Song
133
1
Swamp Songs
134
1
Indian Summer
135
1
After the Guest
136
1
Reading Late in the Cottage
137
1
The Caged Owl
138
1
Friday Lunchbreak
139
1
Virginia Backyard: July
140
1
On the Lawn at Ira's
141
1
A Story Sassetta Paints
142
1
Leaving the Asylum
143
1
An Abandoned, Overgrown Cemetery in the Pasture near Our House
144
3
from We Must Make a Kingdom of It (1986) and New & Selected Poems (1988)
We Must Make a Kingdom of It
147
1
Poem in New York
148
2
Visit to the Island of Lost Souls
150
2
A Shelf Is a Ledge
152
1
Poem
153
1
Nantucket Morning/This World
154
1
Chateaubriand on the Niagara Frontier, 1791
155
1
Elegy
156
1
Reverie
157
1
The Pond
158
1
November
159
1
The Demonstration
160
1
On a Highway East of Selma, Alabama
161
2
Solitary Confinement
163
1
Hotel St. Louis, New York City, Fall 1969
164
3
The Trick
167
1
Available Now: Archaic Torsos of Both Sexes
168
1
Lucky
169
1
After Botticelli's Birth of Venus
170
1
The Fifth Month
171
1
The Voyages
172
1
The Hand: ``Brightness Falls from the Air''
173
1
Tableau Vivant
174
1
The Teachers
175
1
The Western Invention of Lyrical Nature
176
1
A Field in New England
177
1
A Song
178
1
The Tree
179
4
from City of Salt (1995)
Origin of the Marble Forest
183
1
A Litany
184
1
A Moment
185
1
Everything
186
1
Elegy
187
1
A Dark Night
188
1
Who'd Want to Be a Man?
189
1
The Vase
190
1
A la Mysterieuse
191
1
The Gray Fox
192
1
The Cliff
193
1
Self-Portrait at Twenty
194
1
Muse of Midnight
195
1
Tristan and Iseult
196
1
After Piero di Cosimo's Venus, Mars, and Amor
197
1
Glukupikron
198
1
Lament
199
2
Investigation
201
1
My Father's Voice
202
1
The Gift
203
1
Father's Song
204
1
The City of Salt
205
4
from Orpheus & Eurydice (2001)
The Entrance to the Underworld
209
1
When I first saw...
210
1
A snake...
211
1
His Lament
212
1
If...
213
1
When I was alive...
214
1
I was moving...
215
1
When Eurydice saw him
216
1
The Ghosts Listen to Orpheus Sing
217
1
My body was never marred
218
1
When they said...
219
1
In the cave mouth...
220
1
Once the two of us...
221
1
In the shadows...
222
1
His Grief
223
1
Far below, plowed fields...
224
1
The Wedge
225
1
His Dream: The Black Tree / Thirst
226
1
Fields took on...
227
2
About the Author
229
2
Index of Titles
231
2
Index of First Lines
233
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