Inheritance of Light

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ISBN: 9781574410136 | 157441013X
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 3/1/1996

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Preface
Dragons	p. 3
Companion Beast	p. 3
Walking Over the Land	p. 4
Arson	p. 5
Death of the Rainmaker among the Dinka	p. 5
Murals in the Minoan Room at the Athens Museum	p. 7
The Fire Eater	p. 8
small poems	p. 9
South From Nogales	p. 10
After Bird Watching Near the Mexican Border	p. 10
Portuguese Girls	p. 11
On the Day of My Father's Surgery, Robert Bly Read Poetry at the College	p. 12
St. John of the Cross, Fresh Pasta, and Patsy Cline	p. 12
What we could talk of as the second millennium ends	p. 13
The Lady of the Lake	p. 14
Globos	p. 15
The woman across the way	p. 16
Hogbears	p. 17
The Municipal Elections	p. 17
Evil Eye	p. 18
Lyric Theater	p. 19
My Mother in Majorca	p. 21
The Civil Whore's Civil War	p. 22
The Embarrassment	p. 24
Rote of Forgetfulness	p. 25
Alcoholic	p. 26
On Taking a Child to Your Bed	p. 27
First Summer in Nice	p. 28
Addiction	p. 29
The Chair Beside the Door	p. 31
Old	p. 32
The English Women in India	p. 32
Spannings	p. 33
Farm-to-Market #6	p. 34
On Domestic Tranquility	p. 34
Eve's Second Song	p. 35
Luna	p. 35
Rerun	p. 36
Pharmacopoeia	p. 37
Praising the Darkness	p. 37
Song of a Song	p. 38
Below the Surface	p. 38
Sex Trees	p. 39
The Reasons for Writing	p. 40
Generations	p. 41
La Casa	p. 45
From Bolivia After All This Time	p. 45
Final Touches	p. 47
When the Celebrants Gather	p. 49
Umbilicus	p. 50
The Fox	p. 51
What My Father Wanted	p. 52
Wanting Words	p. 53
Two Poems for My Father	p. 53
In Season	p. 54
The Well	p. 55
One Time	p. 56
Cleaning Up After Migrant Workers	p. 56
Serenade	p. 58
After Evita	p. 58
Depression Days	p. 59
The Loving Strip	p. 60
Playing Canfield with Father	p. 61
Schizophrenia	p. 63
Shattered Glass	p. 63
This summer, I know	p. 65
This Life	p. 67
Stones	p. 69
Nanny	p. 69
Dreaming A Life	p. 71
The Bone Game	p. 72
Remember Richard	p. 73
West End Galveston	p. 75
Rothko Chapel	p. 77
Blood Enough and Time	p. 78
Slut	p. 79
A Hometown Prayer	p. 79
The Uncles Laughed	p. 80
Bees and Wolves	p. 81
Scars	p. 84
All the Watchers Are Women	p. 85
Ivy	p. 86
Let's Go	p. 86
Tishomingo	p. 87
The Pimps Must Be Breaking Arms on Broadway	p. 89
The Deerhunter's Wife	p. 89
A Visit From Father Christmas	p. 90
One Of Them	p. 90
Zapatos Blancos	p. 91
Monterrey, Complete	p. 92
A Life Briefly	p. 93
Spitting Poem	p. 94
Our Abortion	p. 95
January 1, 1990	p. 96
It Must Be Something	p. 97
Talking Dirty	p. 98
The Days of Plenty	p. 99
Transparencies	p. 101
Nearly Full Moon at Pyramid Lake	p. 101
The Lovers' Kiss	p. 102
Black Beads	p. 103
Was Federico Garcia Lorca Lonely in New York?	p. 104
Watching a Film of Van Gogh on Christmas Eve	p. 105
The Energy of Clay	p. 106
Salvation, in Poor Clothing	p. 108
Of Beer and Sofas	p. 109
The Four Hard Edges of War	p. 117
As Guerrillas Attack His Monastery, A Young Novice Escapes to the Jungle and Contemplates Suicide	p. 121
The Convenience of Smoke	p. 122
There's a Shape We Provide - A Form	p. 123
Photographs	p. 123
Pain and Dust	p. 125
For the 500th Dead Palestinian, Ibtisam Bozieh	p. 125
Rock	p. 126
Bad Moon	p. 128
Love Letter, Hate Letter	p. 129
The Ambassadors	p. 130
Lawrence/Ross/Shaw	p. 130
Famine in Africa	p. 130
The Eagle Has Black Bones	p. 131
Body Bags	p. 132
Approaching A Significant Birthday, He Peruses The Norton Anthology of Poetry	p. 133
Randolph Field, 1938	p. 134
I Was Not There	p. 136
And Yet There Also Are the Poor	p. 137
Camp Bowie	p. 138
Abstract	p. 140
Vocabulary	p. 141
The First Law of Landscaping	p. 141
Tell-tale American Presence	p. 142
Opium	p. 142
Knives	p. 143
Pinned Down	p. 144
In Such an Unhappy Neighborhood, Carlos	p. 147
The Lobster	p. 147
Two Brothers In A Field of Absence	p. 148
Virga	p. 149
Once More in Los Ebanos	p. 150
A Rock Out of the Alleghenies	p. 151
Drought Surrounds the Biology Building	p. 152
Historic Preservation	p. 153
A Sick Child, Fresno Canyon	p. 153
This Genial Moon	p. 154
Went Ahead and Gathered Some	p. 155
Mere Plank Motion	p. 156
Levi Belcourt	p. 157
Slash Burning	p. 159
Keeping Track	p. 160
Night Beach Snake	p. 161
Suffolk Ewes	p. 162
The Wild Canaries on a Twenty-Mile Stretch of Highway	p. 163
Raising Animals: Esther and Eve	p. 164
Dusk	p. 165
Rice	p. 166
A Bullfight on Color TV	p. 167
Mornings in Mexico	p. 169
The Motel	p. 170
The Motion	p. 173
Poem	p. 174
Early Spring Song	p. 175
Aloud Allowed	p. 176
A Soothing Gloom	p. 176
There Is a Name I Love to Hear: Rich	p. 177
Widow (Alone) Scratches Nose, Studying Her Playing Hand	p. 177
Pearlfisher	p. 178
Isadora Duncan's Birthplace, San Francisco	p. 179
Moons	p. 179
Lost in the Divorce	p. 180
Snake Jar	p. 181
Fairy Tale	p. 182
Sorrow	p. 182
Ellis Island	p. 183
Immortality at the Topless Donut Shop	p. 184
Marimba Man	p. 185
An Exorcism	p. 186
Litany for the Chicken-Hearted	p. 186
Happy?	p. 187
The Clown	p. 187
The Scribbling Cure	p. 188
Ah Yes, the Question	p. 188
Teaching Poetry	p. 189
The Story of the Burning Man	p. 190
Wives	p. 191
A Honey Jar	p. 194
Digging for the truth	p. 194
Diana the Huntress Goes for Her Mammogram	p. 195
What We Come to the Post Office For	p. 196
The Weight Lifter	p. 198
A Triptych for My Father	p. 198
My Son in Snow	p. 199
The Hunt	p. 200
Hunter	p. 201
Gourd	p. 202
Gift	p. 203
World's Second Beginning	p. 204
Madness and Love	p. 204
Cicada	p. 205
Snow White's Father's Second Wife's Tale	p. 208
On Receiving Peruvian Dolls for the Dead	p. 206
Dancing Lessons	p. 210
Visitation Rites	p. 211
The Experts	p. 211
Have A Nice Day	p. 212
Piece Goods	p. 213
Eschatology	p. 214
Medea in Taos	p. 216
Emily's Gift	p. 217
Out of Place, Far From Rain	p. 218
A History of Hands	p. 219
Fog Horn	p. 221
The Falling of Hair	p. 222
The Need of Hands	p. 223
De Casibus	p. 224
Heritage	p. 227
hang time	p. 226
Isak	p. 228
Acts of Faith	p. 229
Later	p. 230
Resurrection	p. 231
Acknowledgements	p. 233
Index	p. 237
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