Domestic Interior.

Intro -- Contents -- I. Neighbors -- I Observe This Morphic Field -- Domestic Interior -- Private School -- Bougainvillea -- Neighbors in Their Own Bunkers -- How Could We Decorate a Haunted House? -- Calm Down! -- Library -- Saying Good-bye to the World War II Generation -- No Irish Need Apply -- Massachusetts -- II. Education -- "Liking Something Is Not Enough" -- Diagnosis: Psychosis -- Time, Waste of -- See, e.g., Hildegarde, Fatima, Blake, McLuhan -- Invective -- Prescription Pills -- Snobs -- Marble Obelisk -- Education -- III. Folie à Deux -- Pension, Venezia -- Ten Years -- The Temper -- The Alcoholic and the Ball and Chain -- Legal Separation -- John Barleycorn -- After the End, Hope for the Beginning -- Peace -- IV. Not Too Serious -- Self-Portrait at the End of the First Half of My Life -- Not Too Serious -- The Staff Lounge -- The Divorce of Mr. and Mrs. Moore -- Camp -- The Satanists Next Door -- Supervision -- Husbandry -- Dolphins -- Roommates: Noblesse Oblige, Sprezzatura, and Gin Lane -- The Family Jewels -- V. The Mother -- Hope for the Hopeless -- Indoors -- The Devouring Father -- Keeping -- Coloring Book -- St. Dymphna -- Black and White -- "The Abyss Stares Back at You" -- The World Will Ask for Your Greed, Envy, and Sloth -- Good-bye -- Souls in Purgatory -- The Mother Becomes the Mother of Herself as Well -- Notes -- Acknowledgments.

These poems describe the private and sometimes secret spaces of marriage, parenthood, and knowledge.

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