Contents
The Unmasking
Preface
the volcano sequence (2002)
Prelude: Volcano
Fugue: Mother
The Yearning
Psalm (excerpt)
Theodicy: A Dialogue
Call And Response
Our Mothers: A Correspondence
The Shekhinah as Mute
Nevertheless She Moves
Bruriah
The Volcano Breathes
Psalm (excerpt)
I Decide to Call You “Being”
Seasonal
Interlude: The Avenue of the Americas
Memory
About to Sell Your House
Rewind
Physical Examination
Memory
No Heaven (2005)
Vocation
Birdcall
Pickup
Liking It
Crosstown
May Rain, Princeton
Running Out the Clock
The Speech of the Creature
Mid-February
Caravaggio: The Painting of Force and Violence
The Kiss of Judas
Rembrandt: Work and Love
Cosi Fan Tutte: Of Desire and Delight
Schumann, Op. 16: The Greater Happiness
An Album of Chinese Fan Paintings
A Walker in the City I
A Voice at the Rally
The Window, at the Moment of Flame
Poem Sixty Years after Auschwitz
Hunger
Elegy before the War (excerpts)
Fix
Daffodils
The Book of Seventy (2009)
Approaching Seventy (excerpts)
Insomnia
Honey of Generation
Late Winter Rain
West Fourth Street
The Plateau
Our Dead Friend
Persephone to Demeter
Demeter to Persephone
Gaia Regards Her Children
Lord Krishna to the Summer Handyman
Born in the USA
Laundry
Dear God
At the Revelation Restaurant (2010)
The Bird
Isla Mujeres
Love I
Love II (Summertime)
Love III
Love IV
Ars Poetica: Seven Poems
The Old Woman, the Tulip, and the Dog (2014)
The Blessing of the Old Woman, the Tulip, and the Dog
Deer Walk Upon Our Mountains
The Drink Triptych
Song
The Wind That Blows Through Me
Soften and Melt
April
In Every Life
Anger I: Gray Cement
The Fear Triptych
They Speak of Race
Ridiculous
Awakening
I Want to Live
The Sorrow Triptych
Anger II: The Rape
In War Time
Paw on Your Lap
Brightness Falls from the Air
Waiting for the Light (2017)
August Morning, Upper Broadway
The Light
How Fortunate the Boy
Mannahatta
The First Snowfall
The Glory of Cities
Bangladesh: The Driver
Cinco de Mayo
Biking to the George Washington Bridge
Ghazal: The Minimum Wage, 2014
A Walker in the City II
Waiting for the Light
Ghazal: America
Afghanistan: The Raped Girl
Q&A: Insurance
Making a Meal of Them
Dare I Call You Cousin
Temblor
The Liberal Arts
To Charlie, on His Poetry
Underground
Ghazal: America the Beautiful
Q&A: Reality
Approaching Eighty: New Poems (2010–2019)
What the Butterfly Is Thinking
November Eleventh: Two Poems
Approaching Eighty, Biking Up Prospect
The Transition: Five Poems
They Are Always Asking
Thirst
Approaching Eighty: Six Poems
Reading Dan Beachy-Quick, Wonderful Investigations
Naming the Thirst Again
The Sea
My Mother Refused To Weed
Mother in the Assisted Living
Old Woman at the River
A Season of Acid Rain
Utopian
Rouffignac
The Death of the Swan, and Other Questions
The Rose Tree
The Laptop Also Is Dying
The Words When I Wrote Them
Biking Riverside Drive Again
Eleanor, 1884–1962: Five Poems
January 15, 1991: The First Gulf War
After Inauguration (excerpt)
Coda: Sutra
Acknowledgments