Blue Dusk: New & Selected Poems, 1951-2001

Title Page
 Not to the Reader
 New Poems
 Going Back to the Convent
 Shackleton
 On Western Avenue behind a Horse-and-Buggy
 Through a Silver Screen
 Clematis montana
 Visiting Sunday: Convent Novitiate
 Almanac
 Elegy for Arnold
 The Paradise Tree
 Surgery Waiting
 Still Life
 Balancing Acts
 Memory Tract
 Metempsychosis
 Woman Locked in a Memorial Museum 
 To Marilyn Monroe Whose Favorite ColorWas White
 Scarecrow Gardens
 Peregrine Falcons in the Bank Tower
 Widows Riding Amtrak
 Sapphires in the Mud
 Hanging the Blue Nuns
 Double Dutch
 Vermeer\'s A Woman Holding a Balance. From From the Darkroom Requiem Mass: Convent Cemetery
 A Kind of Resurrection
 Nuns in the Quarterlies
 The Outsider
 Antique Convent Parlor
 Skid Row
 Long Day\'s Journey into Bloomington
 Matinal
 Whitsunday Office
 From the Darkroom 
 from When Sky Lets Go
 Baroque Lament
 The Shell
 In the Hellgate Wind
 The Family Group
 The Odd Woman
 Letter to an Absent Son
 A Woman Possessed
 Psalm for a New Nun
 Existing Light
 Driving Home 
 Nights of flint and snow
 With a Bottle of Blue Nun to All My Friends
 Hope Diamonds
 from Magpie on the Gallows
 Slow-Motion Elegy for Kathy King
 Portofino. Extended OutlookHanging the Pictures
 The day you were leaving
 The Register
 Phobias Incorporated
 Aladdin Lamp
 Sanding the Chairs
 Beetle Light
 Picking Youngberries on Mr. Harvey\'s Land
 Keeping Up with the Signs
 Gold Ring Triad
 from The Light Station on Tillamook Rock
 i. The Geologist\'s Map
 ii. Power Failure
 iv. Sounding the Ocean
 v. The Return from New England
 vi. Breaching the Rock
 ix. The Columbarium: Everlasting Consideration 
 xii. Geography as Warning 
 xvi. Counting the Winter Dead
 xvii. The Book of Sediments
 from Imaginary Ancestors
 Stages of Family Life
 Honesty. Grandmother GrantOn My Father\'s Side
 Clare of Assisi
 Gilbert of Sempringham
 The Woman with Fabled Hair
 Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885)
 Galileo\'s Case Reopened (1564-1642)
 Sister Maria Celeste, Galileo\'s Daughter, Writes to a Friend
 Modern Primitives
 The Giraffe Women of Burma 
 Emily Dickinson and Gerard Manley Hopkins
 Greta Garbo and the Star Messenger
 Maria Callas, the Woman Behind the Legend
 George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans Cross)
 from Possible Sibyls
 The Stirrups
 Crossarms
 In the middle of Priest Lake 
 Blueprints
 Living by the Water
 Beside Mill River
 Dialogue Partly Platonic. In the locker roomSpiritual Exercises
 What I mistook for heather
 Shadegrown Tobacco
 In the Whirlpool 
 The Widows of Mykonos
 Hagios Panaghiotes: The Church in Tolon
 The Garden of Botanical Delights
 Acknowledgments
 About the Author
 Books by Madeline DeFrees
 Copyright.