Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
The first collection in ten years by one of the most respected and loved poets in American poetry.
Table of Contents
The valley of the fallen -- Ingathering -- Election day, 1984 -- Gerda -- Pearl -- Reunion -- An American beauty -- On a line from Valáery -- Suppressing the evidence -- Fearful women -- Halation -- Mud soup -- Parents' pantoum -- Arthur's party -- In hell with Virg and Dan -- Lost in translation -- Cultural evolution -- Four translations (A present for tu fu, Maryam, What is true, Tirade for the next-to-last act) -- Medicine -- Poem for your birthday -- Marriage song -- Index, a mountain -- Song for Muriel -- Twelve o'clock -- Anniversaries : Claremont Avenue from 1945 -- Fin-de-siáecle blues.