The fact of a doorframe: selected poems, 1950-2001

Storm Warnings --
Aunt Jennifer\'s Tigers --
Boundary --
At a Bach Concert --
Ideal Landscape --
Living in Sin --
The Snow Queen --
Letter from the Land of Sinners --
From Morning-Glory to Petersburg --
The Knight --
Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law --
Antinous: The Diaries --
Peeling Onions --
The Roofwalker --
Prospective Immigrants Please Note --
Necessities of Life --
In the Woods --
The Trees --
Like This Together --
Night-Pieces: For a Child --
\"I Am in Danger --
Sir -\" --
Mourning Picture --
The Knot --
Focus --
Orion --
In the Evening --
The Demon Lover --
Jerusalem --
Night Watch --
For a Russian Poet --
Abnegation --
Implosions --
On Edges --
Leaflets --
The clouds are electric in this university --
In Central Park we talked of our own cowardice --
Did you think I was talking about my life? --
Blacked-out on a wagon, part of my life cut out forever --
When they mow the fields, I see the world reformed --
Last night you wrote on the wall: Revolution is poetry --
The order of the small town on the riverbank --
If these are letters, they will have to be misread --
From here on, all of us will be living --
A piece of thread ripped-out from a fierce design --
November 1968 --
Study of History --
Planetarium --
The Burning of Paper Instead of Children --
I Dream I\'m the Death of Orpheus --
Letters: March 1969 --
The Stelae --
A Valediction Forbidding Mourning --
from Shooting Script --
Trying to Talk with a Man --
When We Dead Awaken --
From the Prison House --
The Mirror in Which Two Are Seen as One --
Dialogue --
Diving into the Wreck --
Song --
The Ninth Symphony of Beethoven Understood at Last as a Sexual Message --
Rape --
Burning Oneself In --
From a Survivor --
August --
The Prisoners --
At the Jewish New Year --
Dien Bien Phu --
Re-forming the Crystal --
White Night --
From an Old House in America --
The Fact of a Doorframe --
Power --
Hunger --
Cartographies of Silence --
Twenty-One Love Poems --
A Woman Dead in Her Forties --
Natural Resources --
Integrity --
For Memory --
For Ethel Rosenberg --
Grandmothers --
The Spirit of Place --
Frame --
For the Record --
Virginia 1906 --
For an Occupant --
North American Time --
Blue Rock --
Look: this is January --
Heart of cold --
My mouth hovers --
Dear Adrienne: I\'m calling you up tonight --
Dear Adrienne, I feel signified by pain --
Night over the great and the little worlds --
I came out of the hospital --
Violence as purification --
Lately in my dreams --
You who think I find words for everything --
The problem, unstated till now --
The tobacco fields lie fallow --
In a bald skull sits our friend --
You know the Government must have pushed them --
You: air-driven reft --
The Tolstoyans --
You who think I find words for everything --
In a Classroom --
The Novel --
Children Playing Checkers at the Edge of the Forest --
The Desert as Garden of Paradise --
Delta --
Dreamwood --
Harpers Ferry --
A dark woman, head bent --
Here is a map of our country --
Late summers, early autumns --
Catch if you can your country\'s moment --
(The dream-site) --
He thought there would be a limit --
On this earth, in this life --
Soledad. = f. Solitude, loneliness --
One night on Monterey Bay --
(Dedications) --
That Mouth --
Marghanita --
Tattered Kaddish --
Final Notations --
What Kind of Times Are These --
In Those Years --
Calle Vision --
Then or Now --
Food Packages: 1947 --
Innocence: 1945 --
Sunset, December, 1993 --
Deportations --
And Now --
Late Ghazal --
comrade --
movement --
history --
edgelit --
For an Anniversary --
Midnight Salvage --
Char --
Letters to a Young Poet --
Camino Real --
Seven Skins --
Rusted Legacy --
Veterans Day --
Architeet --
Fox --
Fire --
Noctilucent Clouds --
If Your Name Is on the List --
1999 --
(Driving home from Robin Blaser\'s reading) --
We\'re not yet out of the everglades --
Beethoven\'s \"Appassionata\" played --
From the new crudities, from the old --
Ends of the Earth.