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A change of world (1951). Storm warnings -- Aunt Jennifer's tigers -- Vertigo -- The ultimate act -- What ghosts can say -- The kursaal at Interlaken -- Reliquary -- Purely local -- A view of the terrace -- By no means native -- Air without incense -- For the felling of an elm in the Harvard yard --...

Poems (1950-1951). The prisoners -- Night -- The house at the Cascades -- The roadway -- Pictures by Vuillard -- Orient wheat -- Versailles -- Annotation for an epitaph -- Ideal landscape -- The celebration in the plaza -- The tourist and the town -- Bears -- The insusceptibles -- Lucifer in the tra...

Snapshots of a daughter-in-law (1963). At majority -- From morning-glory to Petersburg -- Rural reflections -- The knights -- The loser. I. I kissed you, bride and lost, and went -- II. Well, you are tougher than I thought. -- The absent-minded are always to blame -- Euryclea's tale -- September 21...

Poems (1955-1957). At the Jewish new year -- Moving in winter -- Necessities of life (1966). Part one: Poems 1962-1965. Necessities of life -- In the woods -- The corpse-plant -- The trees -- Like this together. 1. Wind rocks the car. -- 2. They're tearing down, tearing up -- 3. We have, as they say...

Leaflets (1969). Part one: Night watch. Orion -- Holding out -- Flesh and blood -- In the evening -- Missing the point -- City (from the Dutch of Gerrit Achterberg) -- Dwingelo (from the Dutch of Gerrit Achterberg) -- The demon lover -- Jerusalem -- Charleston in the 1860's -- Night watch -- There a...

The will to change (1971). November 1968 -- Study of history -- Planetarium -- The burning of paper instead of children. 1. My neighbor, a scientist and art-collector,... -- 2. To imagine a time of silence -- 3. "People suffer highly in poverty... -- 4. We lie under the sheet -- 5. I am composing on...

Diving into the wreck (1971-1972). I. Trying to talk with a man -- When we dead awaken -- Waking in the dark -- Incipience -- After twenty years -- The mirror in which two are seen as one -- From the prison house -- The stranger -- Song -- Dialogue -- Diving into the wreck -- II. The phenomenology o...

The dream of a common language (1974-1977). I. Power. Phantasia for Elvira Shatayev -- Origins and history of consciousness -- Splittings -- Hunger -- To a poet -- Cartographies of silence -- The lioness -- II. Twenty-one love poems. Wherever in this city, screens flicker -- I wake up in your bed. I...

A wild patience has taken me this far (1978-1981). The images -- Coast to coast -- Integrity -- Culture and anarchy -- For Julia in Nebraska -- Transit -- For memory -- What is possible -- For Ethel Rosenberg -- Mother-in-law -- Heroines -- Grandmothers. 1. Mary Gravely Jones -- 2. Hattie Rice Rich...

Your native land, your life (1981-1985). I. Sources -- II. North American time. For the record -- Education of a novelist -- Virginia 1906 -- Dreams before waking -- When/then -- Upcountry -- One kind of terror: a love poem -- In the wake of home -- What was, is; what might have been, might be -- Fo...

Time's power (1985-1988). Solfeggietto -- This -- Love poem -- Negotiations -- In a classroom -- The novel -- A story -- In memoriam: D.K. -- Children playing checkers at the edge of the forest -- Sleepwalking next to death -- Letters in the family -- The desert as garden of paradise -- Delta -- 6/2...

Dark fields of the republic (1991-1995). What kind of times are these. In those years -- To the days -- Miracle ice cream -- Rachel -- Amends -- Calle visión. 1. Not what you thought: just a turn-off -- 2. Calle visión-- 3. Lodged in the difficult hotel -- 4. Calle vision your heart beats on unbro...

Fox (1998-2000). Victory -- Veterans Day -- For this -- Regardless -- Signatures -- Nora's gaze -- Architect -- Fox -- Messages -- Fire -- Twilight -- Octobrish -- Second sight -- Grating -- Noctilucent clouds -- If your name is on the list -- 1999 -- Terza rima -- Four short poems -- Rauschenberg's...

Telephone ringing in the labyrinth (2004-2006). I. Voyage to the denouement -- Skeleton key -- Wallpaper -- In plain sight -- Behind the motel -- Melancholy piano (extracts) -- II. Archaic -- Long after Stevens -- Improvisation on lines from Edwin Muir's "variations on a time theme" -- Rhyme -- Hote...

Tonight no poetry will serve (2007-2010). I. Waiting for rain, for music -- Reading the Iliad (as if) for the first time -- Benjamin revisited -- Innocence -- Domain -- Fracture -- Turbulence -- Tonight no poetry will serve -- II. Scenes of negotiation -- III. From sickbed shores -- IV. Axel Avákar...