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Tables of Contents for Nightworks
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
New Poems
Sounds of the Resurrected Dead Man's Footsteps
Baby Hamlet/The Play Within the Play
3
1
Skulls/Skulls
4
2
Beast, Peach and Dance/Angel, Portrait and Breath
6
2
Indeterminate Time/Yes and No
8
1
Fly, Fleece and Tractor/Syringe, Cloak and Elevator
9
1
A Tree in a Window, the Window Itself, and the Mustard-Colored Butter Substitute That Might Be the Sun/Coos Bay
10
2
Odysseus/Inconsolable Love
12
2
His Knickers, His High Shoes/His Windbreaker, His Watch Cap
14
1
Exquisite Disembodiment/Apotheosis and Separation
15
1
Dog, Bell and Blossom/Kneecap, Whiskey and Glass
16
2
Passion/Consolation
18
2
Today, Tibet/Tomorrow, Tibet
20
2
That Swine Are Intelligent/That Ducks Are Dumb
22
1
Lives of the Whales/Old Whalers Church, Sag Harbor
23
1
Man Burning a Field/Vertigo
24
1
Oneself/One's Other Self
25
1
At the Walking Dunes, Eastern Long Island/Walking in the Drowning Forest
26
2
One Potato Two/Three Potato Four
28
1
Griddle, Grease and Piecrust/Oboe, Drum and Pocket Trumpet
29
2
Shakespeare Expected/Shakespeare Dismissed
31
2
Less Judgment/Less Self
33
240
from Things We Dreamt We Died For [1966]
The Hole in the Sea
37
2
Treetops
39
1
What Songs the Soldiers Sang
40
1
Things We Dreamt We Died For
41
1
The Condition
42
1
My Hate
43
1
The Admission
44
1
Walking Thoughts
45
1
The Israeli Navy
46
3
from A Probable Volume of Dreams [1969]
Give Back, Give Back
49
1
The Parents of Psychotic Children
50
1
A Picture of Soldiers
51
1
The Extermination of the Jews
52
1
Water, Winter, Fire
53
1
Our Subject Death
54
3
from The Escape into You [1971]
A Biography
57
1
I Adore You (1960)
58
1
Honi Soit Qui Mal Y Pense
59
1
Rescue, Rescue
60
1
Your Shakespeare
61
1
We Have Known
62
1
American Poets
63
1
Song of Social Despair
64
1
Getting Lost in Nazi Germany
65
1
Our Romance
66
1
Obsessive
67
1
The Answer
68
1
What Lasts
69
1
Constant Feelings
70
1
The Willing
71
1
Put Back the Dark
72
1
Song: The Organic Years
73
4
from Residue of Song [1974]
Study of the Letter A
77
1
Aristotle
78
1
Origin of Dreams
79
1
Father and Russia
80
1
Garlic
81
1
Trying to Catch Fire
82
1
You Would Know
83
1
Little Father Poem
84
1
Temper
85
4
from Stars Which See, Stars Which Do Not See [1977]
The Self and the Mulberry
89
1
Unable to Wake in the Heat
90
1
The Mystery of Emily Dickinson
91
1
Trinket
92
1
The Wild Cherry Tree Out Back
93
1
Two Pictures of a Leaf
94
1
Stars Which See, Stars Which Do Not See
95
1
To No One In Particular
96
2
Written During Depression: How to Be Happy
98
1
``Gradually, It Occurs to Us...''
99
1
What Is There
100
1
Dew at the Edge of a Leaf
101
1
By Different Paths
102
1
An Introduction to My Anthology
103
1
Watching the Bomber Pass Over
104
1
To Dorothy
105
1
Gemwood
106
5
from These Green-Going-to-Yellow [1981]
He Said To
111
1
We Had Seen a Pig
112
2
The Canal at Rye
114
2
The Last Thing I Say
116
1
To an Adolescent Weeping Willow
117
2
These Green-Going-to-Yellow
119
2
A Motor
121
6
from Drawn by Stones, by Earth, by Things That Have Been in the Fire [1984]
White Clover
127
1
Unless It Was Courage
128
1
Jane Was With Me
129
2
Drawn by Stones, by Earth, by Things That Have Been in the Fire
131
1
Starfish
132
2
Felt but Not Touched
134
1
Trees As Standing for Something
135
1
Instructions to Be Left Behind
136
2
The Nest
138
2
The Facts of Life
140
1
Days of Time
141
1
One of the Animals
142
1
The Stones
143
2
Personal Reasons
145
4
from New and Selected Poems [1987]
Wednesday
149
1
Long Island
150
2
Replica
152
2
The Politics of an Object
154
1
Classified
155
1
The Pill
156
2
In My Nature: 3 Corrective Dialogues
158
4
After a Line by Theodore Roethke
162
3
from Iris of Creation [1990]
He Had a Good Year
165
1
An Old Trembling
166
1
Nature
167
1
Comb and Rake
168
1
A Man May Change
169
1
3 Horses Facing the Saskatchewan Sun
170
1
How He Grew Up
171
1
I, or Someone Like Me
172
1
Portrait
173
2
Tall Ships
175
1
An Elegy for the Past
176
1
I Will Not Be Claimed
177
1
By the Iowa
178
1
Dark Brow
179
1
A Primer About the Flag
180
1
Icarus Thought
181
1
Washing Our Hands of the Rest of America
182
1
If I Had One Thing to Say
183
1
Sevens (Version 3): In the Closed Iris of Creation
184
3
Darts
187
1
Victim of Himself
188
1
Poem After Carlos Drummond de Andrade
189
2
Initial Conditions
191
14
from A Marvin Bell Reader [1994]
Ecstasy
205
4
Short Version of Ecstasy
209
1
Cryptic Version of Ecstasy
210
1
Eastern Long Island
211
2
Poem in Orange Tones
213
2
Interview
215
1
The Uniform
216
1
Ending with a Line from Lear
217
4
from The Book of the Dead Man [1994]
About the Dead Man
221
2
About the Beginnings of the Dead Man
223
2
About the Dead Man's Speech
225
2
About the Dead Man and Medusa
227
2
About the Dead Man and Thunder
229
2
About the Dead Man and Government
231
2
About the Dead Man and Rigor Mortis
233
2
About the Dead Man and Winter
235
2
About the Dead Man's Happiness
237
2
About the Dead Man and His Masks
239
2
About the Dead Man and Sex
241
2
About the Dead Man's Late Nights
243
4
from Ardor: The Book of the Dead Man, Vol. 2 [1997]
About the Dead Man, Ashes and Dust
247
2
About the Dead Man and Childhood
249
2
About the Dead Man's Not Telling
251
2
About the Dead Man and Desire
253
2
Toaster, Kettle and Breadboard
255
2
About the Dead Man and the Corpse of Yugoslavia
257
2
About the Dead Man Outside
259
2
About the Dead Man Apart
261
2
About the Dead Man and Anyway
263
2
About the Dead Man and Sense
265
2
About the Dead Man and Everpresence
267
2
Accounts of the Dead Man
269
4
Index of Titles
273
3
Index of First Lines
276