Contents
Introduction
Breckinridge Country Suite: To a Young Kentucky Women
Days of Summer Gone
The Distance
Party
American Variations
Your Sex
The Name of Desire
A Hymn to the Body
The Story
Black Water
Autumn Fugue
Plain Talk
The Seasons: A Quartet
Speaking of the South: 1961
In Search of the Other World
Ode to a Relative I Never Met
In Atlanta Once
Loca Sancta
Fathers and Sons
After Rain
Three Scenes from the Provinces of Blood
A Wreath of Stars: Symsonia, Kentucky, 1914
Study
Bored Cop Leaning against Abstract Sculpture on Plaza below Skyscraper
The Blue World
Photograph: Being Sad
Two Anonymous Spanish Drawings
Contemplating a Landscape in Spring
Two Songs of Solitude and Lament
Weightlifter Poems
Lament on New Year’s Day
The Changes
Days of Summer Gone
One World
Part Four/ The Green Diamonds of Summer
The New Cities of the Tropics
Prelude: Late Twentieth-Century Piece
Tall Palms
Flamingos
Miami
Diptych
Tropical Watercolor: Sarasota
Tropical Lament
Tropical Deco
Florida Twilight, 1905
Daisy Miller at the Colosseum
Aphrodite Holding a Seashell
Fin de Siècle
Sherwood Anderson, 1912
Elegy for Roland Barthes
Little Testament
The Lights at Newport Beach
Laguna Beach Breakdown
Sardis Reservoir, Mississippi
In Pieces
In Memory of the Boys of Dexter, Kentucky
Meditation at Kentucky Dam
The Mississippi at Barfield, Arkansas
The Parthenon at Nashville
Aubade
The Beginning of Summer
Hurricane
August Elegy
Wild Horses
Elegy at Summer’s End
Adult Situations
The Circumstances
Death in Orange County
Ballroom Dancing in the Barrio
Metropolitan Twilight
South Boulevard
Near
Soon
Dawn
The Dead Gods
The New Gods
Woodshedding: Kentucky, 1980
Lines for Hank Williams
Stanzas on the Anniversary of Hart Crane’s Death
West Kentucky Quintet
Insurance Men at Breakfast: Lexington, Kentucky, 1969
American Tragedy
Watching Bergman Films with My Father
Alcohol
The Policy
Style
One of the Forty-Eight
Summer
Tropical Inland Motel
Tropical Heat
To a Woman Passing By
The Woman with the Dog
The Artist’s Model
The Years
Adult Situations
Uncollected Poems
In Spring
Once in Autumn
Another Rainy Night
Summer and Smoke
Ode to the Backs of a Woman’s Knees
Haiku
Before the Squall Broke Over
Bad Sonnets
Seascape: Destin, Florida
Cleaved Spheres
Not This Life
Rack!
A Couple of Suicide Cases
Young Hispanic Man Looking at a Sculpture
The Light We Dance Through
Departure
A Sort of Praise
Summer’s Lament
Childhood
Twilight
The Lights at Southmayd Park
Tropical Courtyard
Desert Deluge
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Notes and Dedications
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