THIS TO THE HOUSE / 84
SOME VALUES OF LANDSCAPE AND WEATHER / 85
TO BE WRITTEN IN NO OTHER COUNTRY / 99
BEGINNING WITH A PHRASE FROM SIMONE WEIL / 117
A PANIC THAT CAN STILL COME UPON ME / 121
UNTITLED AMHERST SPECTER / 135
A TELESCOPE PROTECTS ITS VIEW / 136
VINCENT, HOMESICK FOR THE LAND OF PICTURES / 143
SATURDAY AND ITS FESTOONED POTENTIAL / 152
THIS TRIP AROUND THE SUN IS EXPENSIVE / 184
TRADITION & THE INDIVISIBLE TALENT / 195
HISTORY IS MADE AT NIGHT / 206
MODERN ADVENTURES AT SEA / 216
FRAGMENT (TO THE READER) / 221
The world contains consciousness as well as atoms—and the one must be written down as just as essential as the other …
WILLIAM JAMES
FROM
PERIPLUM, AND OTHER POEMS
SONG OF THE INTERIOR BEGIN
Some sky of hydraulic
spring Some season ever
So the tree for even
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