Title Page -- Dedication Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- New Poems -- Annunciation -- In Our Child House -- Nine -- The Girl -- Mother -- Eighteen -- "She Sang" -- A Bone Standing up -- The Hawthorn Robin Mends with Thorns -- Out in a Sailboat -- I came to you -- Cousin -- The very Bad Horse -- Once -- So many Secrets -- Eleventh Brother -- Once in the Nights -- Under the Gold -- The Windows -- Go Clear -- The Coin -- October Morning -- I Heard my Left Hand -- In the Evening -- We Cut the New Day -- Occurrence of White -- How have I Hurt you? -- Do Flies Remember us -- You Drew my Head -- The Little, Faintly Blue Clay Eggs -- Happiness (3) -- Letter -- I could never Let go -- The Basket House -- The House and the World -- In your Eyes -- Woman, Leaving -- Trim my Hoofs -- Two Poems for Matthew Shepard -- The Blue Dory, the Soul -- The Rally -- The Growing Christ of Tzintzuntzan -- Sheep -- To the Bardo -- Rodney Dying (4) -- Door in the Mountain -- Monarch Butterfly -- My Old Body -- Inkwell Daybreak -- The Path Between -- The Night Sea -- The Shirt -- One Foot in the Dark -- A Weed Green -- Fears: Night Cabin -- So Wild -- I have lived in your Face -- A Goldfinch in the Rain -- The Grain of the Wood -- The Push or Fly -- I would be -- Avalon -- Do you remember? -- Advent Calendar -- We didn't Know Each Other -- Touch with your Finger -- Noon in the Line Outside -- Inside -- Your Number is Lifting off my Hand -- The Needle North -- The Passing -- In the Burning Air -- Little House -- Notes -- Dream Barker (1965) -- First Love -- For a Woman Dead at Thirty -- Miles from Home -- To Salter's Point -- Lines in Dejection -- Sleep Drops its Nets -- Déjà-vu -- Sunset at Wellfleet -- Asleep Over Lines from Willa Cather -- Cambridge by Night -- To a Friend -- Waiting -- Sasha and the Poet -- The Second Dream -- A Bride's Hours.

1: Dawn -- 2: The Bath -- 3: Night -- Afterbirth -- Sarah's Christening Day -- Tired of London -- Cambridge, April 27, 1957 -- New York, April 27, 1962 -- September 1963 -- Riverside -- For Teed -- My Grandmother's Watch -- The Beast with Two Backs -- The Little Flower -- Sex -- Adam and Eve: Poem on Folded Paper -- Dream Barker -- To my Soul -- Pilgrims (1969) -- I -- The Couples -- Fireside -- Solomon -- In the Museum -- By the Boat Pond -- The Summer House -- Woods -- Her Dream: the Child -- Orpheus and Eurydice -- Goodbye -- Separation -- Thinking about Cain -- Dearest -- II -- April -- Broken-Down Girl -- Bin Dream, West College East, D-11 -- Bin Dream #2, Interview with Stravinsky -- Death House -- Archangel -- Half an Hour -- Visiting Day at School -- The Child Jung -- Coltrane, Syeeda's Song Flute -- Photograph of Delmore Schwartz -- The Torn-Down Building -- Moon Man -- The Child and the Terrorist, the Terrorist and the Child -- Night -- Pilgrims -- Ordinary Things (1974) -- I -- After Elegies -- 'Autumn Day' -- He Said -- Forces -- Kin -- Anesthesia -- After Elegies (2) -- II -- 3 A.M. in New York -- Space -- Letter from a Country Room -- A Child's Death -- Revolution -- Three Voices One Night in the Community Kitchen -- The Knife -- Seeing L'Atalante -- III -- "Twenty Days' Journey" by Huub Oosterhuis, Translated from the Dutch with Judith Herzberg -- IV -- This Hate -- This Minute -- Couvre-Feu: After Paul Eluard -- Fidelities -- Susan's Photograph -- Outside the Frame -- Forces (2): Song -- Notes -- The Messenger (1979) -- Beka, 14 -- Dufy Postcard -- The Field -- Living Together -- Here Now -- The Forgiveness Dream: Man from the Warsaw Ghetto -- Turn -- Prayer in Fever -- Working -- Silences: A Dream of Governments -- After Elegies (3) -- The Messenger -- Two Translations -- Huub Oosterhuis: Orpheus -- Osip Mandelstam: 394 -- Solitudes.

December 21st -- Sanctuary -- What Happened -- Turn (2): After Years -- The Burden of Memory -- February 9th -- "Love and Work": Freud Dying -- Letter from a Stranger -- "Actuarial File" -- Lines from a Story -- March 21st -- Notes -- Home.Deep.Blue (1989) -- Willi, Home -- To Raphael, Angel of Happy Meeting -- Primitive Painting: Liberation Day -- Awake, This Summer -- Mandelstam -- The Drinker's Wife Writes Back -- Birthday Letter from South Carolina -- The Counselor Retires, and then he Dies -- Juliana -- Visit -- Snow Landscape, in a Glass Globe -- Everything Starts with a Letter -- About Love -- Little Song in Indian Summer -- The King -- High School Boyfriend -- Tonight I can write … -- Trust Me -- The River at Wolf (1992) -- X -- Spring and its Flowers -- The Summer was not Long Enough -- Still Life, for Matisse -- Still Life: In the Epidemic -- Ikon -- The Year of the Snake -- The One you wanted to be is the One you are -- Ironwood -- Bud -- To a Young Poet -- Foraging -- Alfred and the Abortion -- Redemption -- Seeing you -- The Free Abandonment Blues -- The First Station -- Night Lake -- The Badlands Said -- The Missouri Speaks -- The River at Wolf -- The Ring -- Barrie's Dream, the Wild Geese -- Fox Glacier -- Lindis Pass, Borage -- By the Tekapo River, 100 Degrees -- After Consciousness of This Big Form -- Everyone was Drunk -- In Fear (1) -- In Fear (2) -- In This Egg -- The Under Voice -- Come Akhmatova -- James Wright: In Memory -- Wish-Mother -- At Cullen's Island -- The Wisdom Gravy -- American River Sky Alcohol Father -- The Morning of my Mother's Death -- The Night of My Mother's Death -- Second Mother -- The Sea of Serenity -- My Mother's Body, my Professor, my Bower -- Butane -- At my Mother's Grave -- We go Through Our Mother's Things -- Death Asphodel -- To the Memory of David Kalstone -- The First Angel -- At the Door.

Yield Everything, Force Nothing -- Alone, Alive -- Flower -- Skate -- Guardian Angel in New York -- To Plath, to Sexton -- The Power Table -- Growing Darkness, Growing Light (1997) -- Rain -- Sick, away from Home -- Friend -- Homesick -- New Life -- Bees -- The Tractors -- River Jordan -- Night Porch -- World-Light -- Snow Family -- To the Black Madonna of Chartres -- Tell me, what is the Soul -- Mastectomy -- Secret Room, Danger House -- Red for Blood -- Yellow for Gold -- Green for the Land -- Black for the People -- Home -- Long Irish Summer Day -- Dog Skin Coat -- Fellini in Purgatory -- Elegy for Jane Kenyon -- You are not one in a Sequence -- Alcohol -- Where do you look for me? -- Documentary: AIDS Support Group -- Poem with Words by Thornton Dial -- A Bit of Rice -- The Night of Wally's Service, Wally Said, -- Rodney Dying -- Rodney Dying (2) -- Father Lynch Returns from the Dead -- The Baby Rabbits in the Garden -- Mother and Child, Body and Soul -- Soul -- Soul (2) -- The Mother Dreams -- Fistula -- Soul (3) -- Open Heart -- Listening -- The Cradle of the Real Life (2000) -- Part I -- The Pen -- Elegy for Jane Kenyon (2) -- Black Wolf -- Mother Bones -- They Lead me -- Your Mouth "Appeared to me" -- Mare and Newborn Foal -- Truth -- October Premonition -- Rodney Dying (3) -- November -- Labrador -- 1945 -- Leaving -- Running for a Train -- The Welsh Poet -- Radio: Poetry Reading, NPR -- The Tower Roof -- For a Woman Dead at Thirty (2) -- The Blind Stirring of Love -- Little Map -- The Drinker -- The Drinker (2) -- Happiness -- Happiness (2): The I Ching -- He leaves them: -- Away from you -- Child -- Part II: Her Lost Book -- 1 -- 2 -- 3 -- Index of Titles and First Lines -- About the Author.