The Old Woman, the Tulip, and the Dog.

Intro -- Contents -- The Blessing of the Old Woman, the Tulip, and the Dog -- The Vow -- Deer Walk Upon Our Mountains -- Wrong About the Horse -- The Drink Triptych -- The Panel Discussion: How Mistaken Is Sophocles -- The Promise Triptych -- Song -- The Beautiful Morning Triptych -- The Wind That Blows Through Me -- What We Love -- Prayer -- April -- Soften and Melt -- In Every Life -- Try To -- The Fear Triptych -- Ridiculous -- The Outsiders -- Anger I: Gray Cement -- The Moment on Stage I -- Church -- The Synagogue of the Ear of Corn -- They Speak of Race -- Awakening -- I Want to Live -- What Is Now Seen Was Once Only Imagined -- Bright Star and Devil Moon -- Snow Day -- The Sorrow Triptych -- The Arts -- The Moment on Stage II -- Anger II: the Rape -- Liberty -- To a Pregnant Woman -- The Beginning of Time -- Sweet Chariot -- Brightness Falls from the Air -- In War Time -- Paw on Your Lap -- Many Lives -- Summertime -- Notes -- Acknowledgments.

This book by a major American poet is for poetry readers at all levels, academic and non-academic. It is a sequence of poems that will surprise and delight readers--in the voices of an old woman full of memories, a glamorous tulip, and an earthy dog who always has the last word.

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