Description: Foreword, by Alan Shapiro Acknowledgments NEW POEMS AND TRANSLATIONS Part I What's Playing Tonight Character Analysis of Mary in Earlier Life At Lake Hopatcong Wolf Woman Little Vietnam Futurist Poem Song of the Drunkard Movie Star Peter at the Supper for Street People On a Poem by Arthur R. Gold Wallenda Backyard Dog The License Plate An Alphabet Part II My Harvest An Autumn Afternoon Courtesy Down by the River Hlfte des Lebens An die Parzen Roman Elegy X News from Mount Amiata About Sylvia's Stories and Teaching She Speaks Across the Years That Evening at Dinner Multas per gentes Shubshi-meshre-Shakkan Old People The Chair from ON THE WAY TO THE ISLAND (1960) Part I The Late-Hour Poem The Bird The Soldier At a Bar Out in the Cold A Farewell In the Dark Learning from History Part II Augury The Embarkation for Cythera On the Way to the Island Quand vous serez bien vieille The Crippled Girl, The Rose Musings of Mind and Body Part III Poems of Marianne Moore Johnson on Pope Dog and Fox The Unawkward Singers What It Does Part IV By the Sea Shore The Beach at Evening Descriptive Aubade Envoi STRANGERS: A BOOK OF POEMS (1983) Part I A Tomb at Tarquinia At the Bus Stop; Eurydice Ellery Street My Mother's Dying Several Voices A Night-Time River Road Part II On a Sunday Morning Sculptures by Dimitri Hadzi Evening News I Evening News II Part III Caprimulgidae A Charm On Haystack Mountain The Waiting Table Talk Cythera In Eden A Walk in the Woods Seen Through a Window Out at Lanesville Part IV To Sestius La Farandola dei Fanciulli In Balance Part V A Telephone Call At the Hospital At the Hospital To Sally At the Hospital Part VI After Spotsylvania Court House Photographs from a Book: Six Poems Graveyard Counterpart Part VII Rereading Old Writing DWELLING PLACES: POEMS AND TRANSLATIONS (1993) Part I Strabo Reading Megasthenes Dives The Guest Ellen at the Supper for Street People Committee Civilization and Its Discontents The Blind People The Proselyte Part II A Young Woman Goodnight Nocturnal Abyss Name Of Rhyme Epigram Autumn Garden Dog Horses Unos Caballos Roof A Morning Song Of Violets Levis Exsurgit Zephirus Herbsttag The Lesson In the Garden Roman Elegy VIII When We Were Children Part III Mnemosyne Part IV Harvesters Resting Mary in Old Age Prayer to the Gods of the Night Envoi from GILGAMESH: A NEW RENDERING IN ENGLISH VERSE (1992) Tablet VII Tablet VIII from THE ODES OF HORACE: A TRANSLATION (1997) To Leucono (i.11) To Varus (i.18) To the Republic (i.14) Cleopatra (i.37) Of the God's Power (i.34) To Tyndaris (i.17) To His Lyre (i.32) To Virgil (i.24) from THE ECLOGUES OF VIRGIL (1999) Eclogue Five Eclogue Nine TWO EPISTLES OF HORACE (1998-) To Florus (ii.2) Envoi (i.13) Notes

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