Steal Away: Selected and New Poems

Front Cover
 Title Page
 Note to the Reader
 Contents
 THE ROSESUCKER RETABLOS
 Rosesucker Retablo #1
 Rosesucker Retablo #2
 Rosesucker Retablo #3
 from TRANSLATIONS OF THE GOSPEL BACK INTO TONGUES (1982)
 Alla Breve Loving
 The Secret Life of Musical Instruments
 Bent Tones
 Tours
 Blazes
 Libretto
 Clockmaker with Bad Eyes
 Obedience of the Corpse
 The night before the sentence is carried out
 Vanish
 Wanderer in His Thirtieth Year
 THE HANDFISHING RETABLOS
 Handfishing Retablo #1
 Handfishing Retablo #2
 Handfishing Retablo #3
 Handfishing Retablo #4. From FURTHER ADVENTURES WITH YOU (1986)Wages of Love
 Provinces
 Treatment
 The Cinematographer's Faro Island Log
 Hotels
 ELements of Night
 Lapse
 Scratch Music
 Illuminations
 This Couple
 Petition for Replenishment
 Two Hearts in a Forest
 Further Adventures With You
 THE FLOATING LADY RETABLOS
 Floating Lady Retablo #1
 Floating Lady Retablo #2
 Floating Lady Retablo #3
 from STRING LIGHT (1991)
 King's Daughters, Home for Unwed Mothers, 1948
 More Blues and the Abstract Truth
 Remarks on Color
 The Night I Met Little Floyd
 Why Ralph Refuses to Dance
 Our Dust
 Humidity. The Body's Temperature at RestPersonals
 Planks
 Utopia
 Toward the Woods
 What No One Could Have Told Them
 Detail from What No One Could Have Told Them
 Old Man with a Dog
 Living
 Weekend in the Country
 The Next to Last Draft
 Self Portrait on a Rocky Mount
 The Ozark Odes
 JUST WHISTLE a valentine (1993)
 TREMBLE (1996)
 Floating Trees
 Approximately Forever
 So Far Off and Yet Here
 Like Peaches
 With Grass as Their Witness
 Because Fulfillment Awaits
 Autographs
 And It Came to Pass
 Girl Friend
 Sonic Relations
 Various Positions
 The Shepherd of Resumed Desire
 Oneness. Gift of the BookGirl Friend Poem #2
 A Serires of Actions
 Song of the Gourd
 Lake Echo, Dear
 On the Beach
 What Keeps
 Key Episodes from an Earthly Life
 Girl Friend Poem #3
 In a Piercing and Sucking Species
 Crescent
 Everything Good Between Men and Women
 Girl Friend Poem #4
 The Iris Admits the Light the Iris Will Allow
 Like Someone Driving to Texas by Herself
 Morning Star
 Like Rocks
 Privacy
 Girl Friend Poem #5
 Ponds, In Love
 Like Horses
 Flame
 Girl Friend Poem #6
 Girl Friends #7-10
 from DEEPSTEP COME SHINING (1998)
 from ONE BIG SELF Prisoners of Louisiana (2002)
 Index. About the AuthorBooks by C.D. Wright
 Links
 Acknowledgments
 Copyright
 Special Thanks.