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Tables of Contents for Selected Poems
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Introduction
10
17
Michael Hamburger
Language of the Country (1960)
Language of the Country
17
10
The End of Owls
27
2
The Midwives
29
4
Braille (1964)
Bill of Fare
33
2
Remote House
35
2
Camera Obscura
37
4
Shore
41
2
The Other
43
2
For the Grave of a Peace-loving Man
45
2
Middle Class Blues
47
2
Portrait of a House Detective
49
2
Purgatorio
51
2
Historical Process
53
2
Karl Heinrich Marx
55
4
Lachesis lapponica
59
4
Shadow Realm
63
6
Poems 1955-1970 (1971)
Summer Poem
69
22
Joy
91
2
Poem about the Future
93
2
Song for those who Know
95
4
Rondeau
99
2
The Force of Habit
101
4
Homage to Godel
105
4
Concert of Wishes
109
4
The Sinking of the Titanic (1978)
Apocalypse. Umbrian Master, about 1490
113
4
Notice of Loss
117
2
Last Supper. Venetian. Sixteenth Century
119
6
Security Considerations
125
4
The Reprieve
129
2
Cold Comfort
131
4
Further Reasons Why Poets Do Not Tell the Truth
135
2
Keeping Cool
137
4
Model toward a Theory of Cognition
141
2
Identity Check
143
2
Research Council
145
4
Dept. of Philosophy
149
2
The Rest on the Flight. Flemish, 1521
151
6
The Fury of Disappearance (1980)
At Thirty-Three
157
2
The Employee
159
4
The Divorce
163
2
The Holiday
165
2
A Staircase
167
2
Sightseeing Tour
169
4
Short History of the Bourgeoisie
173
2
The Frogs of Bikini
175
22
Vending Machine
197
2
The Bell Jar
199
2
Delete the Inapplicable
201
2
The Comb
203
2
Clothes
205
2
Visiting Ingres
207
2
A Dream
209
4
Music of the Future (1991)
Gillis van Coninxloo, Landscape. Panel, 65 x 119cm
213
2
Appearances
215
4
The Blank Sheet
219
2
Consistency
221
2
Old Revolution
223
2
Residual Light
225
2
Vanished Work
227
2
The Ironmonger's Shop
229
2
Old Couples
231
2
Valse triste et sentimentale
233
2
Fetish
235
2
Sleeping Pill
237
2
Towards Eternal Peace
239
4
A Hare in the Data Processing Centre
243
2
Limbic System
245
2
The Poison
247
2
Precursors
249
4
Leeway
253
2
Strange Attractor
255