Editor's Note
Introduction by Colum McCann
PLAIN SONG
Poem
Sketch for a Job-Application Blank
David
Exercise
A Sequence Of Women
Northern Michigan
Tree
Returning at Night
Apology
Lost
“She”
“I’ve had enough tonight.”
“Once I stood all night”
Fair/Boy Christian Takes a Break
Morning
Garden
Horse
Kinship
February Suite
Traverse City Zoo
Reverie
Fox Farm
“The painting on the wall”
Ticket
Nightmare
Credo, After E.P.
Dusk
Lisle’s River
Three Night Songs
Cardinal
Bellevue
“This is cold salt”
John Severin Walgren, 1874–1962
New Liturgy
Malediction
WorD Drunk
Young Bull
Park at Night
“Not casida, canzone—”
Going Back
Hitchhiking
Sound
Dead Deer
Li Ho
Complaint
Return
LOCATIONS
Walking
Suite to Fathers
Suite to Appleness
The Sign
War Suite
American Girl
Lullaby for a Daughter
Sequence
Cold August
Night in Boston
February Swans
Thin Ice
Natural World
Moving
White
After the Anonymous Swedish
Dawn Whiskey
Breakthrough
Legenda
A Year’s Changes
Locations
OUTLYER & GHAZALS
OUTLYER
In Interims: Outlyer
Trader
Hospital
Cowgirl
Drinking Song
She Again
Awake
GHAZZALS
Notes on the Ghazals
Ghazals: I–LXV
LETTERS TO YESENIN
Letters: 1–30
Postscript
INCIDENTS
A Last Ghazal
A Domestic Poem for Portia
Missy, 1966–1971
Four Matrices
North America Image Cycle
RETURNING TO EARTH
Returning to Earth
SELECTED & NEW POEMS
Not Writing My Name
Frog
Rooster
Epithalamium
A Redolence for Nims
Followers
My First Day as a Painter
Waiting
Noon
Birthday
Clear Water 3
Dōgen’s Dream
Weeping
The Chatham Ghazal
Marriage Ghazal
March Walk
The Woman from Spiritwood
Gathering April
Walter of Battersea
After Reading Takahashi
Index of Titles
Index of First Lines
About the Author