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CONTENTS

Acknowledgments ix

Editor’s Introduction xi

The Old Man Has One Thought and Then Another 1

For William Carlos Williams 4

Reznikoff 5

Oppen 6

“It may have been …” 7

“When I asked Wallace Stevens …” 8

The People’s Poet 9

On a Rejection Note from Paul Muldoon 10

Homage 11

Lines (1) 12

Now I Write 13

On My Book 14

Writing 15

“I wrote two poems in my sleep …” 16

The Poem 17

During the Second World War 18

Memorial Day 19

An American Life 20

Discourse on Education 21

Foggia, Italy 22

The Old War 23

Song 25

The Transaction 26

Alexandra 27

Lydia 28

Cynthia 29

King Kong’s Wong 30

Nightpiece 31

“Drear, bleared and boiled …” 32

A Story 33

Brief Lives 34

Brooklyn 35

To the Brooklyn Academy of Music 36

Lines (2) 37

7th Avenue IRT 38

Times Square 39

In the City 40

Praise For 41

The Keys 42

Key West 43

Florida 44

Real Estate 45

Deer 46

Suburban Note 47

Rockport 48

Paris 49

In Prague 50

Questions 51

Green 52

Mozart Poem 53

World 54

In the Beginning 55

Dan, Age 10, Explains 56

Bush Poem 57

Hot Summer 58

“A bird in a tree …” 59

Birds 60

“Like a boy again …” 61

Remembering 62

Friday 63

Book Group 64

“I am in a warm room …” 65

The Distance 66

Rabbi Nachman’s Parable 67

For Adin 68

Dejection 69

The Mother of Invention 70

Planning 71

Honestly 72

“Where was the wisdom …” 73

Drums 74

In Argument 75

The Old Jew 76

Lines (3) 77

Departures 79

2007 81

The Office 82

In the Office 83

Hospital Poem 84

Self-Pity 85

Lines (4) 86

Luxury of Time 87

“The piece of myself …” 88

Pardoned 89

City Poem 90

Poetics 91

For Galen 92

Bright Winter 93

A Momentary Glory 94

Psalm 95