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Description -- Title Page -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1: Exploring the World -- This Poem… -- The Iceberg Theory -- Introduction to Poetry -- The Horses of Meaning -- Symposium -- Not the Furniture Game -- A Song of Lies -- Mappa Mundi -- The Poem -- Saint Francis and the Sow -- Celebration -- At the Fishhouses -- Tremors -- Night Journey -- The Orient Express -- Ithaka -- What If This Road -- Poetry of Departures -- The Last of the Fire Kings -- The Appointment -- The Mayo Tao -- Echoes -- No Matter What, After All, and That Beautiful Word So -- Migratory -- Close-up on a Sharp-shinned Hawk -- Inventing the Hawk -- The Hawk -- The southern skua -- 2: Taste and See -- The Simple Truth -- The First Green of Spring -- O Taste and See -- From Blossoms -- Peaches -- Blackberry Eating -- Blackberrying -- A Kumquat for John Keats -- Crab Apple Jelly -- A Jar of Honey -- Sweetness, Always -- For Desire -- Wild strawberries -- Horses -- The Horses -- Horses at Christmas -- Calf -- How Everything Adores Being Alive -- In Praise of the Great Bull Walrus -- Cleaning the Elephant -- The Bull Moose -- The Fish -- The Peace of Wild Things -- Gift -- Not-Yet -- A Pre-Breakfast Rant -- Hunger for Something -- Talking to God on the Seventh Day -- Hunger -- Dark Pines Under Water -- Toxicity -- Planet Earth -- The Ball -- The Passionate World -- World Truffle -- You, Andrew Marvell -- Look and See -- Stationery -- The Present -- Blessing -- The Rain -- So Much Happiness -- Happiness -- The Third Body -- On Pilgrimage -- The Summer Day -- The God Who Loves You -- The Ikons -- Veni Creator -- Prayers of Steel -- 'Last night while I was sleeping' -- Mission Impossible -- from Counterpoint -- Missing God -- The Forest of Tangle -- Credo -- Retro Creation -- God Says Yes To Me -- Sheep Fair Day -- Oh God, Fuck Me -- 3: Family -- Smoke -- The watch the lost baby poem -- Heartsong -- Scan at 8 weeks -- Ultrasound at 13 weeks -- The Sonogram -- The Ringing Chamber -- Ninth Month -- An Unborn Child -- Prayer before birth -- Births -- The night before the last day of January -- Driving to the Hospital -- The Harvest in March -- And let us say -- Tempo -- Counting -- Love -- Morning Song -- Natural Son -- Baby Song -- Newly Born Twins -- My First Weeks -- Nursling -- The Victory -- Stance -- Red Onion, Cherries, Boiling Potatoes, Milk - -- from Elizabeth Near and Far -- For Andrew -- Let Him Not Grow Up -- Daystar -- The peacock of motherhood -- Single Parent -- Bearhug -- Cartoon Physics, part 1 -- A Tray of Eggs -- Skating with Heather Grace -- Benevolence -- Infancy -- The Mother -- Sunlight -- Starlight -- from Clearances -- My Father -- Genetics -- Digging -- I See You Dancing, Father -- My Papa's Waltz -- My Father Is Shrinking -- Little Father -- My Grandmother's Love Letters -- Climbing My Grandfather -- Custody -- Second Home -- How Many Times -- No fairy story -- House -- The Cockfighter's Daughter -- Daddy -- Waste Sonata -- The Survivors -- The Strait-Jackets -- Self-Portrait as a Warao Violin -- But till that morning, ain't no one gonna harm you -- Hollis Street Square, Halifax -- Returning North -- Time Out -- The blessing -- Walking Away -- Mother-May-I -- Kid -- Guests -- from Book of Matches -- Johnson Brothers Ltd -- Laws of Gravity -- Transmutation -- Family -- Animals -- Animals -- Forty-one, Alone, No Gerbil -- Putting Down the Cat -- On the euthanasia of a pet dog -- 'Noticing a man unable…' -- Walking the Dog -- 4: Love Life -- Love at First Sight -- Story of a Hotel Room -- Tryst -- Love after Love -- Love, Like Water -- To My Love, Combing Her Hair -- The White Porch -- Rosy Ear -- Variation on the Word Sleep -- The Blindfold -- Silk of a Soul -- The Fist What It's Like To Be Alive -- Alive -- Misery and Splendor -- This Hour -- After Making Love We Hear Footsteps -- Love -- The Great Fires -- Knowing Nothing -- Warming Her Pearls -- Look at These -- I Wouldn't Thank You for a Valentine -- Valentine -- Ode to the Onion -- If Love Was Jazz -- Litany -- from 100 Love Sonnets -- On Raglan Road -- Raglan Lane -- Touch Me -- Misgivings -- The Hunter Home from the Hill -- The Waterfall -- Atlas -- An Arundel Tomb -- 5: Men and Women -- Men and Woman -- The Dress -- The Mutes -- The Inspection -- In the men's room(s) -- A Simple Story -- The Change -- Mrs Midas -- Spunk Talking -- Four of the Belt -- A Man in the Valley of Women -- Prayer To Be with Mercurial Women -- Bloody Men -- And Another Bloody Thing… -- sexpot -- I'll Be a Wicked Old Woman -- Ballygrand Widow -- 'What Do Women Want?' -- Rapunzstiltskin -- English Girl Eats Her First Mango -- Pleasure -- Done -- Please Can I Have a Man -- Man in Space -- Wedding -- The Tightrope Wedding -- The Whitsun Weddings -- The Pattern -- Les Grands Seigneurs -- Being a Wife -- The Ache of Marriage -- The Applicant -- Good Gifts -- Breakfast -- Ill-Wishing Him -- My Way -- Love Rats -- Recension Day -- Before That -- The New Bride -- Sleeping with the Fishes -- Let's Go Over It All Again -- Sonnet -- 6: Being and Loss -- The Emperor of Ice-Cream -- Somebody Else -- Mirror -- The Mirror -- Cat and Mirror -- Transmutation -- Original Face -- The essential -- Pond -- The Circus Animals' Desertion -- Measuring the Tyger -- The black heralds -- from Dream Songs (155) -- The Death by Heroin of Sid Vicious -- Otherwise -- The Mistake -- Che Fece…Il Gran Rifiuto -- Speaking About My Cracked Sump -- Ophelia's Confession -- Hairbrush -- Elvis the Performing Octopus -- Flight -- Autumn Cancer -- Chemotherapy -- Transmutation -- She Replies to Carmel's Letter -- Caesura Heart -- Descent -- Broken Moon -- Names -- Alzheimer's -- Have We Had Easter Yet? -- Lucky -- Brilliance -- Flames -- The Very Rich Hours -- The Embrace -- What's Left -- poem to my uterus -- to my last period -- The Pruned Tree -- Tomcat -- The Hoist -- Lore -- Here -- Who's Joking with the Photographer? -- Weathering -- 3 A. M. -- The Shade -- Dune Road, Southampton -- The Box -- The Murderer Is a Cow -- Moving House -- This room -- Kindness -- 7: Daily Round -- The Way -- The Nerve -- Killing Time #2 -- Bagpipe music -- Life -- City Lights -- Snow in North Jersey -- Grief -- To Virgil -- Mind the Gap -- My Life Asleep -- New Year Behind the Asylum -- Great Things Have Happened -- Night Taxi -- Message on the machine -- Clearing a Space -- Clearance -- Turn Again -- In Spite of Everything, the Stars -- Searching for Pittsburgh -- Zombies -- Home -- What Work Is -- Alive or Not -- At the Florist's -- Her Retirement -- Toads -- The Panic Bird -- Managing the Common Herd: -- Fight Song -- A Malediction -- Some People -- TV -- The Way We Live -- Every Blessed Day -- Pity the Bastards -- Photographs of Pioneer Women -- Names of Horses -- The Ballad of John Barleycorn, The Ploughman, and the Furrow -- Sugar Cane -- Fish Tea Rice -- Everything Is Going To Be All Right -- The Round -- 8: Lives -- Lives -- The Story -- Transmutation -- Acting -- The sea question -- The Sea -- No Problem, But Not Easy -- Seder Night with My Ancestors -- The Dacca Gauzes -- Still I Rise -- Sadie and Maud -- Glasgow Schoolboys, Running Backwards -- The Magpies -- The Loaf -- Imperial Measure -- Nostalgia -- Plague Victims Catapulted over Walls into Besieged City -- Part of the crowd that day -- Desertmartin -- Ecclesiastes -- Now the City Has Fallen -- from Going On -- Honour killing -- Geography Lesson -- Refugee Blues -- My father carries me across a field Escape Journey, 1988 -- Someone else's life -- Migration -- Limited -- Arrival 1946 -- The City -- Malenki robot -- The Mouse -- The Emigrée -- The Ideal -- A Poet's Confession -- Tongue -- Conversation -- Losing a Language -- From the Technology of Tears -- from The Country Without a Post Office -- 'The Rustle of History's Wings,' as They Used to Say Then -- Jerusalem -- Jerusalem -- In This Land -- The Sari -- Wind -- 9: Mad World -- ABC -- The Dog -- 'I reason, Earth is short…' -- Earth Dweller -- The End of the Owls -- The end of the world -- The Horses -- The Disappearances -- The Shield of Achilles -- Five Ways to Kill a Man -- Pigtail -- Shemà -- The survivor -- 'First they came for the Jews…' -- What Happens -- To Whom It May Concern -- 'When Statesmen gravely say' -- Explaining the Declaration -- Untitled -- War Has Been Given a Bad Name -- He Embraces His Murderer -- from A German War Primer -- Song of the Juggler -- Conversation with a Survivor -- Twelve Bar Bessie -- from An Atlas of the Difficult World -- At Last the Women Are Moving -- Ourstory -- The low road -- Revenge -- Dedication -- Ratatouille -- In Memory: The Miami Showband - Massacred 31 July 1975 -- Casual Wear -- The Diameter of the Bomb -- The Red and the Black -- The Wound Man -- History -- The Hearth -- Musée des Beaux Arts -- Reality Demands -- Try to Praise the Mutilated World -- A Prison Evening -- To the Days -- Sometimes -- Spells -- Glad of these times -- Staple Island Swing -- 10: Ends and Beginnings -- The Trees -- Late Snow -- Candles -- Night in Al-Hamra -- Candle poem -- A Piece of the Storm -- Going Without Saying -- Wet Evening in April -- For the Anniversary of My Death -- Final Notations -- Gravy -- In the Nursing Home -- Lovebirds -- Beyond Harm -- The Entertainment of War -- Mid-Term Break -- Sounding the name -- When a Friend -- And another thing… Detour
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