Selected Shorter Poems
Living in America 3
The Garden of Intellect 4
Still Life in Utah 5
Ann Arbor 5
Sierra Nevada 7
The Spirit Is Too Blunt an Instrument 9
Poem for a Daughter 10
The Mother 11
Siskin 12
Generations 12
Coming Back to Cambridge 13
North Sea off Carnoustie 15
By the Boat House, Oxford 17
Ragwort 17
The Minister 18
Enough of Green 19
Path 20
Between 20
The Circle 21
The Sun Appears in November 22
Meniscus 22
The Price 23
If I Could Paint Essences 24
Small Philosophical Poem 25
Ah Babel 26
Swifts 27
Himalayan Balsam 29
The Fish Are All Sick 31
In the Tunnel of Summers 32
Waving to Elizabeth 33
After the Fall 34
Two Poems for Frances Horovitz
Red Rock Fault 35
Willow Song 36
Dreaming of the Dead 38
The Fiction Makers 39
Making Poetry 42
A Dream of Stones 43
Trinity at Low Tide 44
Salter's Gate 45
Cold 47
Washing the Clocks 48
Politesse 49
Bloody Bloody 51
Black Hole 53
Lost 54
Journal Entry: Impromptu in C Minor 55
Letter to Sylvia Plath 59
The Other House 63
Elegy 65
When the camel is dust it goes through the needle's eye 68
Where the Animals Go 69
As I Lay Sleeping 70
Saying the World 71
Vertigo 72
A Surprise on the First Day of School 72
Arioso Dolente 73
Moonrise 75
Skills 76
An Angel 77
Granny Scarecrow 79
Leaving 80
On Going Deaf 81
To witness pain is a different form of pain 82
Postscriprum 83
A Report from the Border 84
Haunted 84
Hearing with My Fingers 85
A Marriage 86
Washing My Hair 87
Who's Joking with the Photographer? 88
To Phoebe 90
In the Weather of Deciduous Souls 90
Stone Milk 91
Before Eden 92
TheEnigma 95
Orcop 96
Inheriting My Grandmother's Nightmare 97
Beach Kites 99
Variations on a Line by Peter Redgrove 100
Correspondences: A Family History in Letters 103
Biographical Note 199
Index 201