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Phases
Table of Contents
Pastoral
When the 26 African Queens Escaped
I Was Cold and You Lit Me on Fire
The Help
On Dante
The Greek Word for Want
Artifact
With Reckless
Hot Wind
A Medieval Roman Theology, Abridged
View From the Ponte Vecchio
Sprezzatura
A Lie, their Hands
Mnemesis
Place Order Here
After Shakespeare’s Sonnet 73
The Leering Man Almost Speaks Up
Sidereal Characters in Caravaggio Paintings
How Like Falling In
Hadrian Complex
Picture This
Orpheus Temps at the Furniture Store
Transubstantiation
Bird at the Parish of All Souls
The Cold-Hearted Son Almost Speaks Up
Getting Across without Charon
Apostasy
My Close Friend is a Russian
Ode to Inspiration
Visible Spectrum
To the Inevitable Heartache
A Kind of Chaos at the Edge of Things
The Experiment
Tyrannus
Device
This Running Out and That Running Out
Senza Titolo
Genius Loci
Portrait of the Young Seamstress as an Ars Poetica
Promotion
We Are Your New Overlords
Mnemonic Influence
The Technological Poem
Death Loves Persephone
Jean-Honore Fragonard’s Swinger Plays Hard to Get
You Deserve a Better Apology
An Advent
The Time I Tried to Write a Letter to a Girl I Hadn’t Seen in Seven Years, but Who I Had Found Beautiful, Even Though We Didn’t Know One Another Very Well and Who I Maybe Would Have Married, Had She Responded Well to the Advance
The Unmarried Poet Prepares
The Aura of Inevitability
How the Bowl Became Still Life with Fruit 1802
Dear R.S. Gwynn and Thomas Lux
Let Justice Roll on Like a Mighty River
Eat Your Own Tail, Royal Taster
Decadence
We Have Ways of Making You
Forgot So Loved
Notes
Acknowledgments
Mischa Willett
Poems are windows into worlds; windows into beauty, goodness, and truth; windows into understandings that won’t twist themselves into tidy dogmatic statements; windows into experiences. We can do more than merely peer into such windows; with a little effort we can fling open the casements, and leap over the sills into the heart of these worlds. We are also led into familiar places of hurt, confusion, and disappointment, but we arrive in the poet’s company. Poetry is a partnership between poet and reader, seeking together to gain something of value—to get at something important.
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