From the Meadow : Selected and New Poems.

Intro -- Contents -- The Condition -- I -- How It Is -- Back from the Fields -- Dorothy -- Old Woman's Song -- At the Playground, Singing for Psychiatric Outpatients -- The Brother -- Drinking Cold Water -- The Marsh, New Year's Day -- The Coat -- Gray Poem -- II -- Living by Water -- To Tlaloc of the Rain -- The Heavy Angel -- Hymn to the Sacred Birds -- Home from Duck Marsh -- Collecting the Animals -- Learning to Speak -- Perhaps It's as You Say -- The Gift -- III -- It Was Autumn -- Routes -- The Burden of Decision -- Going -- We Meet in the Lives of Animals -- The Fish/Lago Chapala -- Thus He Left -- Counting -- How to Handle It -- Desire -- Late Hour -- IV -- In Torino -- The Dinner -- Perosa Canavese -- Sorting the Tools -- Distance -- Night Letters -- Failure -- Night -- This World Awakes to Silence -- V -- Speaking of Accidents -- On Modern Travel -- From Station to Station -- Three Poems Never Written -- A Short Novel -- Poem for Two Voices -- VI -- First Star -- In the Last Days -- Nocturnal Self-Portrait -- I Dreamt -- A Portrait -- A Story -- Elegiac Fragments -- Poem Beginning with a Line from Leonardo Sinisgalli -- Lullaby -- From the Meadow -- The Heart -- Notes -- Acknowledgments.

Peter Everwine has been a dominant force in American poetry for more than five decades. This volume features a group of new works, as well as selections from four previous collections, which capture the quiet intensity of his calmly dazzling work.

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