New and Selected Poems

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ISBN: 9781557284204 | 1557284202
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 8/1/1996

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"Appleman should gain well-deserved attention from this cohesive and substantial collection. His voice is quietly lyrical and deeply rooted in the everyday yet somehow drenched with passion". -- ALA Booklist

To the River (Benares)	p. 3
On the Via Veneto (Rome)	p. 5
Snow on the Bosporus (Istanbul)	p. 6
Dolphins (Manzanillo)	p. 7
Crystal Anniversary	p. 8
Vigil	p. 9
A Promise	p. 11
The Knight's Tale	p. 12
Kites on a Windy Day	p. 13
Remembering the Great Depression	p. 14
Things to Do with Railroads	p. 16
Success Story	p. 18
Day of the Hawk	p. 19
To the Garbage Collectors in Bloomington, Indiana, the First Pickup of the New Year	p. 20
Four Measures: Earth, Air, Water, Fire	p. 22
A Poem for St. Valentine's Day	p. 24
Middle of the Night	p. 25
Summer Love and Surf	p. 27
At the Nativity Bar and Poolroom (Bethlehem)	p. 29
The Path of Renunciation (Calcutta)	p. 30
Thinking of Noubli Laroussi (Algeria)	p. 31
Three Haiku, Two Tanka (Kyoto)	p. 33
A Word to Socrates	p. 35
A Thought for Suse Pollok	p. 36
Last Lines for a Baritone	p. 37
Sweet Life	p. 38
You Said, That's the Fourth Bird This Year to Hit Our Picture Window	p. 39
Butterwort	p. 40
Old Thing	p. 42
Town and Gown	p. 43
Enemy	p. 44
Memo to the 21st Century	p. 46
Nobody Dies in the Spring	p. 48
Land of Cold Sun	p. 50
Ten Definitions of Lifetime	p. 51
Landing Pattern	p. 53
Kicking Sea Urchins	p. 54
What the U.S. Bureau of Customs Will Cry at Public Auction on June 5	p. 56
October Spring	p. 59
The Pill and the Hundred-Yard Dash	p. 60
Bicentennial: The Course of Empire	p. 61
Fighting the Bureaucracy	p. 62
New Year's Resolution	p. 63
Seeing into Bedrooms	p. 65
"Your Papers, Please"	p. 67
East Hampton: The Structure of Sound	p. 69
Truth	p. 70
Westhampton Cemetery	p. 71
Serpent	p. 73
Revision	p. 74
The Tennis Player Waits for What Waits for the Tennis Player	p. 75
Red Kite	p. 76
Central Park: The Anatomy Lesson	p. 77
Caravan	p. 78
Revolution	p. 79
Message	p. 80
Murder	p. 82
For Lucia and the Black Widows of Sperlonga	p. 83
Afterward	p. 89
Alive	p. 90
At the End of the World	p. 92
On a Morning Full of Sun	p. 93
The Persistence of Memory	p. 94
Peace with Honor	p. 95
Waiting for the Fire	p. 98
Love Poem	p. 99
Ars Poetica	p. 100
The Girl Who Hated Threes	p. 102
Savior	p. 104
Heart of Stone	p. 105
Birthday Card to My Mother	p. 107
Congenial Poet Desires Intense Relationship with Warm, Intelligent Poem	p. 109
This Moment	p. 111
First Snow	p. 112
If Martha Is a Model Mother-in-Law, She is Definitely the Latest Model	p. 113
Economics	p. 115
In Two Degrees of Cold	p. 116
A Kind of Fruitfulness	p. 118
Better Half	p. 119
Love in the Rain	p. 120
Scrapbook	p. 121
The Skeletons of Dreams	p. 126
Nostalgie de la Boue	p. 128
State of Nature	p. 132
The Hand-Ax	p. 138
In Andalucia	p. 142
"Black-Footed Ferret Endangered"	p. 144
The Faith-Healer Speaks	p. 145
Darwin's Bestiary	p. 150
Prologue	p. 150
The Ant	p. 151
The Worm	p. 152
The Rabbit	p. 153
The Gossamer	p. 154
Euphorias	p. 155
Waldorf-Astoria Euphoria	p. 155
Hunkydoria Euphoria	p. 157
How Evolution Came to Indiana	p. 158
Mr. Extinction, Meet Ms. Survival	p. 159
How My Light Is Spent	p. 161
"Sea Otter Survival Assured"	p. 162
On the Beagle	p. 164
The Voyage Home	p. 166
Gathering at the River	p. 173
Eve	p. 175
An Eye for an Eye	p. 177
Noah	p. 178
Heavenly Body	p. 187
Sarah	p. 189
Sensual Music	p. 196
Our Tree	p. 197
Gertrude	p. 198
Anniversary	p. 200
The Trickle-Down Theory of Happiness	p. 201
Last-Minute Message for a Time Capsule	p. 202
Bildad	p. 203
Night Thoughts	p. 208
David	p. 209
Watching Her Sleep	p. 211
Gifts	p. 212
Jonah	p. 214
Fleas	p. 217
Before You Push the Red Button	p. 218
And Then the Perfect Truth of Hatred	p. 219
Mary	p. 221
Credo	p. 224
Coast to Coast	p. 226
Judas	p. 227
Heading North	p. 229
Martha	p. 230
Lighting Your Birthday Cake	p. 232
Jesus	p. 233
But the Daisies Will Not Be Deceived by the Gods	p. 235
Kissing the Aborigines	p. 236
Them	p. 237
Eulogy	p. 238
Days One through Six, Etc	p. 239
Superstition	p. 242
Possessed	p. 243
How to Live	p. 244
Gravity	p. 248
Never-Never Land	p. 250
A Priest Forever	p. 251
Vasectomy	p. 256
Creation	p. 257
Will	p. 258
Holding On	p. 260
Index of Titles	p. 263
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