Ashes and Stars.

Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- I -- I Whip Around -- If We Let Go, Of Course Death Has Us -- Back -- Icarus -- At Last -- Please -- "The Book Fell from His Hand" -- Take the Big Subject: Exile -- Travel -- Torn, Filthy Maps -- Narcissus (Caravaggio) -- I Have Lived -- Nature -- Frond -- I Have Been Wrong, Wrong, Wrong -- Even -- Not Seeing Vermeer -- II -- To Charles Harte, Not Alive When Heaney Won the Nobel Prize -- Why Didn't You Tell Me You Were the Great Poet's Muse? -- Mother from Beyond the Grave -- Soft -- Next Time -- Self-Wounding -- Obituaries -- Steve: The Silences -- Anywhere Out of the World -- III -- To Mary 5:00 A.M. -- Hurt -- Glimpse -- Best Choices -- O I Like -- You Feed Me -- The Steady-On Agnostic Needs a Muse -- Epipsychidion Again (To Karen) -- To K-- -- Let It Out (To E.W.) -- Your Dead Lovers -- Easter 1996 -- The Divine Sparks Trapped in the World -- Were I -- It's All -- IV -- Saint Mary's Schoolyard -- Lament of Goliath -- My Brutal Face Has Lasted Four Hundred Years -- Painting Destroyed: Caravaggio -- Berlioz Killed an Opera in His Head -- Down -- To a Poet -- The Fate of Books -- Poem -- Reading a Writer Recently Dead -- Not for Poets -- After All -- My Poem Making Its Way in the World -- Here Come the Notes to My Poems.

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