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Sailing alone around the room: new and selected poems
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Brookline - Adult
820 Collins, B 2002
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820 Collins, B 2002
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Brookline Putterham - Adult
820 Collins, B 2001
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820 Collins, B 2001
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9780375755194
9780375503801
9780375503801
Table of Contents
From the Book - 1st ed.
[section 1]. From The apple that astonished Paris (1988) --
Another reason why I don't keep a gun in the house --
Walking across the Atlantic --
Plight of the troubadour --
The lesson --
Winter syntax --
Advice to writers --
The rival poet --
Insomnia --
Earthling --
Books --
Bar time --
My number --
Introduction to poetry --
The Brooklyn Museum of Art --
Schoolsville --
[section 2]. From Questions about angels (191) --
American sonnet --
Questions about angels --
A history of weather --
The death of allegory --
Forgetfulness --
Candle hat --
Student of clouds --
The dead --
The man in the moon --
The wires of the night --
Vade mecum --
Not touching --
The history teacher --
First reader - Purity --
Nostalgia --
[section 3]. From The art of drowning (1995) --
Consolation --
Osso Buco --
Directions --
Sunday morning with the sensational nightingales --
The best cigarette --
Days --
Tuesday, June 4, 1991 --
Canada --
On turning ten --
Workshop --
My heart --
Budapest --
Dancing toward Bethlehem --
Monday morning --
Center --
Design --
Pinup --
Piano lessons --
The blues --
Man in space --
Nightclub --
Some final words --
[section 4]. From Picnic, lightning (1998) --
Fishing on the Susquehanna in July --
To a stranger born in some distant country hundreds of years from now --
I chop some parsley while listening to Art Blakey's version of "Three blind mice" --
Afternoon with Irish cows --
Marginalia --
Some days --
Picnic, lightning --
Morning --
Bonsai --
Shoveling snow with Buddha --
Snow --
Japan --
Victoria's secret --
Lines composed over three thousand miles from Tintern Abbey --
Paradelle for Susan --
Lines lost among trees --
Taking off Emily Dickinson's clothes --
The night house --
Splitting wood --
The death of the hat --
Passengers --
Where I live --
Aristotle --
[section 5]. New poems --
Dharma --
Reading an anthology of Chinese poems of the Sung Dynasty, I pause to admire the length and clarity of their titles --
Snow day --
Insomnia --
Madmen --
Sonnet --
Idiomatic --
The waitress --
The butterfly effect --
Serenade --
The three wishes --
Pavilion --
The movies --
Jealousy --
tomes --
Man listening to disc --
Scotland --
November --
The iron bridge --
The flight of the reader.
From the Book
[section 1]. From The apple that astonished Paris (1988) --
Another reason why I don't keep a gun in the house --
Walking across the Atlantic --
Plight of the troubadour --
The lesson --
Winter syntax --
Advice to writers --
The rival poet --
Insomnia --
Earthling --
Books --
Bar time --
My number --
Introduction to poetry --
The Brooklyn Museum of Art --
Schoolsville --
[section 2]. From Questions about angels (1991) --
American sonnet --
Questions about angels --
A history of weather --
The death of allegory --
Forgetfulness --
Candle hat --
Student of clouds --
The dead --
The man in the moon --
The wires of the night --
Vade mecum --
Not touching --
The history teacher --
First reader --
Purity --
Nostalgia --
[section 3]. From The art of drowning (1995) --
Consolation --
Osso Buco --
Directions --
Sunday morning with the sensational nightingales --
The best cigarette --
Days --
Tuesday, June 4, 1991 --
Canada --
On turning ten --
Workshop --
My heart --
Budapest --
Dancing toward Bethlehem --
Monday morning --
Center --
Design --
Pinup --
Piano lessons --
The blues --
Man in space --
Nightclub --
Some final words --
[section 4]. From Picnic, lightning (1998) --
Fishing on the Susquehanna in July --
To a stranger born in some distant country hundreds of years from now --
I chop some parsley while listening to Art Blakey's version of "Three blind mice" --
Afternoon with Irish cows --
Marginalia --
Some days --
Picnic, lightning --
Morning --
Bonsai --
Shoveling snow with Buddha --
Snow --
Japan --
Victoria's secret --
Lines composed over three thousand miles from Tintern Abbey --
Paradelle for Susan --
Lines lost among trees --
Taking off Emily Dickinson's clothes --
The night house --
Splitting wood --
The death of the hat --
Passengers --
Where I live --
Aristotle --
[section 5]. New poems --
Dharma --
Reading an anthology of Chinese poems of the Sung Dynasty, I pause to admire the length and clarity of their titles --
Snow day --
Insomnia --
Madmen --
Sonnet --
Idiomatic --
The waitress --
The butterfly effect --
Serenade --
The three wishes --
Pavilion --
The movies --
Jealousy --
Tomes --
Man listening to disc --
Scotland --
November --
The iron bridge --
The flight of the reader.
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