Frontmatter
Contents
Foreword / Phillips, Carl
Acknowledgments
We Didn't Start the Fire
Golden State Sublet
Fragment from a Coptic Tunic
Transparent Window on a Complex View
Beach Lane
Wild Hogs
From a Middle Distance
Forgetting Waukesha, Remembering St. Helena
Postcard of Peter Lorre Embracing Lotte Lenya, 1929
Flywheel with Variable Inertia
American Window Dressing
Rock Maple, White Pine
Hunchback (Alda Merini)
''what do you do?'' (Edoardo Sanguineti)
''I taught my sons'' (Edoardo Sanguineti)
''one writes especially'' (Edoardo Sanguineti)
Rain (Eugenio Montale)
Westerly
Beauty Spot
Dante's House
Crenellated Playroom
Strange Giraffe
A Kind of Poetry
The Farther Veil
Breughel in Rome
Apparitions and Incarnations
Louise's Story
Elba Journal
After A Silvia
Notes.