Unsettled Accounts : Poems.

Intro -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- I -- Ping-Pong with the Nazis -- Hard Water -- Last Peaches, Chalfont St. Giles, 1665 -- Horse Girl -- Terrace on the Val Venosta -- The Persistence of Memory: Houston, 2001 -- 1962 -- An Atonement -- The New Bed -- Spring Fever -- Dirty Laundry -- Along the Troubled Shore -- Object Lessons -- Young Retrievers: Near Oxford, 1973 -- The Traveler from Porlock Makes a Journal Entry, July 1797 -- Visiting Grandma Emma -- Unsettled Accounts -- Dance Lesson: Oakland Veterans' Memorial Hall -- In Venice Ghetto, 2006 -- Lovebirds -- The Jewish Cemetery on the Lido -- The Nest -- Stung -- Padova Pilgrimage -- Arbeit Macht Frei -- Last Judgment in Ferrara -- II -- The Shadow Racers -- St. Peter's on the Mountainside -- Camping with Jarrell -- Gold Panning on the Arkansas River near Leadville, Colorado -- China in Italy -- A Scholar's Suicide -- Einstein's Bellhop -- The Lion at the Fountain -- Passovers -- Feuds -- "Crazy-bucks" -- Terra-Cotta -- Live Fire -- In Vain: Chekhov Curses a Production of Uncle Vanya -- Catching Lizards near Vicenza -- Notes from the Temple -- Nocturne with Revolver, Moscow, 1930 -- Duet -- Past Midnight, I Soak My Feet, Ravenna, 1317 -- Harvest Home, Northamptonshire, 1644 -- From Jerusalem Hill -- Indigo -- Dorothy, Middle-Aged -- The Final Toast -- Heaven and Hell in the Arena Chapel -- Hearing the Beat -- The South Tower -- Shells -- Putting It Together -- Notes.

To take the mess of life and make meaning from it is what all poets seek to do.

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