Contents
New Poems
The Departure of an Alphabet
Sex and Mathematics
Watching the Late Election Returns
Surrender
The Auditor
Alexander Nevsky
Righteousness
Infrastructure
Barbershop
Sphinx
“Hollywood”
from Design for a House, 1972
Ice Hockey
How to Play Night Baseball
How to Have Fourth of July
Alone
Remembering My Father
Design for a House
Cross Bracing
from Leverage, 1983
An American Boyhood
Visiting Agnes
Cutting Beetle-blighted Ponderosa Pine
One-ring Circus
Peter Rabbit
Why We Bombed Haiphong
Births
Catch with My Son
To a Boyhood Friend: How We Changed
Making Things Grow
from Falling from Stardom, 1984
Liberace
The Secret
Losers
The Edge
Elizabeth
Falling from Stardom
from The Names of the Rapids, 1985
The Names of the Rapids
The History of the Wedge
Car Showroom
Buying a Baseball
The Swing, by Honore Fragonard
River Time
Lust
Casino
Kansas Fair
Ramanujan
from Against Paradise, 1990
A Personal History of the Curveball
Ulysses and the Sirens
Landscapes
Jealousy
Shoptalk
Hotel Kitchen
Sex without Love
Against Paradise
Oz
Tumbleweed
The Wisdom Tooth
Some Basic Aesthetics
Full Circle
from American Gothic, 1992
Atlantis
The Colors of Passion
Cancer
The Crash
from The Sublime, 1995
Gould
Knowing
The Third Party
Love in the Time of Cholera
Gulf: January 17, 1991
Karate
Integrals
Faking
The Sublime
Western Meadowlark