The Fall Poems

In this elegant collection, D. Nurkse elegizes a lost father, a foreshortened childhood, and a young marriage. From the drenched lawns of suburbia to the streets of Brooklyn, he delivers up the small but crucial epiphanies that propel an American coming-of-age and chronicles the development of a tender yet exacting consciousness. As the diversions of childhood prefigure the heartbreak of adulthood, Nurkse captures the exquisite sadness of each small "fall" that carries us further from our early innocence. In the book's final section, the poet turns to face mortality with a series of stirring poems about illness in midlife. Throughout, Nurkse celebrates the sheer strangeness of our perceptions in a language that is both astute and surpassingly lyrical. From the Hardcover edition.

D. Nurkse is the author of seven books of poetry. He has received the Whiting Writers’ Award, two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, two grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts, a Tanne Foundation award, and the Bess Hokin Prize from Poetry. He has also written widely on human rights. From the Hardcover edition.

Prologue
The threshold	p. 3
Sunlight	p. 7
Treasures of the cove	p. 8
Northbound	p. 10
The play hour	p. 11
Initials	p. 13
First date	p. 14
Red-and-silver Schwinn	p. 16
The migraine	p. 17
The dog	p. 18
Pennies for flies	p. 19
Left field	p. 20
The rules of the game	p. 21
The Hellmann's jar	p. 22
Darkness	p. 24
Born again	p. 26
Paradise	p. 27
Jumping off the fire tower for Laura	p. 29
Bread and wine	p. 31
At the stage of riddles	p. 33
Under the porch	p. 34
The fall	p. 35
Cat's-eye	p. 39
An opening in the largest city	p. 43
At payless	p. 44
Empire boulevard	p. 45
The engagement	p. 46
Riding west with Laura	p. 48
Black river	p. 50
The stone house at Black River	p. 52
Honeymoon in Varia	p. 54
Leaving Zaragoza	p. 55
The formal gardens at Coimbra	p. 56
Riches of the interior	p. 58
Marriage in the infinite city	p. 59
The rapture	p. 61
Custody wars	p. 62
The part	p. 63
A couple in garden city	p. 65
The Wilson avenue kings	p. 67
Saint Peter's basement	p. 68
Lucky Ford	p. 69
The tower overlooking the city	p. 70
A path in grace	p. 72
Music from an inner room	p. 77
The book of splendor	p. 79
The prognosis	p. 80
At Mary Magdalene	p. 82
Back wards	p. 83
At holy name	p. 85
The waiting room	p. 86
How we are made light	p. 87
Tests	p. 88
The gift	p. 91
Mercy	p. 92
Side effects of colirium	p. 93
A night at Mount Sinai	p. 94
The parasite	p. 95
A prayer for patience in sickness	p. 97
Saint Anthony's grounds	p. 98
Leaving Mary Magdalene	p. 99
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