Contents
I. For the Poltergeists: New Poems
Board Book & the Costume of a Whooping Crane
Sawdust
For the Poltergeists
Radnóti in a Trench Coat
Theremin: Solo & Command Performance
Interrogation Palace
Scrabble with Matthews
Dithyramb and Lamentation
Homage to Blind Willie Johnson
II. From Icehouse Lights, 1982
Distance
Glaucoma
The Precincts of Moonlight
Weldon Kees in Mexico, 1965
Cold Glow: Icehouses
III. From Glassworks, 1987
“Satin Doll”
Pentecost
Dates, for Example
IV. From Mystery Train, 1990
from “Mystery Train”
Posthumous Life
Armageddon: Private Gabriel Calvin Wojahn, 1900–18
The Resurrection of the Dead: Port Glasgow, 1950
V. From Late Empire, 1994
Late Empire
Homage to Ryszard Kapuściński
White Lanterns
Photo of My Father in a Snowbound Train
Tomis
The First Six Seals
VI. From The Falling Hour, 1997
Rajah in Babylon
Excavation Photo
After Wittgenstein
The Shades
God of Journeys and Secret Tidings
Stammer
Tractate for Doctor Tourette
Ghost Supper
Dirge and Descent
Oracle
Gallery IX: A Carved Bone Ring of Cormorants
Before the Words
VII. From Spirit Cabinet, 2002
The Art of Poetry
Poison, 1959
And the Unclean Spirits Went Out of the Man,and Entered into Swine
Stalin’s Library Card
The Ravenswood
After Propertius
Days of 1994
Spirit Cabinet
from “Crayola: A Sequence”
Can’t You Spare Me Over?
Written on the Due Date of a Son Never Born
Triclinium: Couple Bending to a Burning Photo
Kill Born, Weed Smoke, Chk Mark, Onchola Senn
Notes
Acknowledgments