| Introductions | p. xvii |
| Reflections | p. xxv |
| Heads on Fire | |
| Two Set Out on Their Journey | p. 2 |
| Over the Pass | p. 3 |
| The Sky Is Blue | p. 4 |
| A Geography of Lunch | p. 5 |
| Sunday | p. 6 |
| Paper Matches | p. 7 |
| Snowmen | p. 7 |
| Alloy | p. 8 |
| For My Father | p. 10 |
| Primer | p. 11 |
| Vocation | p. 13 |
| Telepathy | p. 14 |
| Yellow Delicious | p. 15 |
| The Apple-Eater | p. 16 |
| Coloring Book | p. 17 |
| On Foot I Had to Walk Through the Solar Systems | p. 19 |
| The Pee Wee Coach | p. 19 |
| Feminism | p. 21 |
| Before Sleep | p. 23 |
| Second Childhood | p. 24 |
| What a Boy Can Do | p. 25 |
| Red Cross Lessons at City Park Pool | p. 25 |
| La Sequia | p. 27 |
| My Father's Garden | p. 28 |
| Two Facts | p. 29 |
| Pokeberries | p. 29 |
| Taking the Hands | p. 30 |
| From Him | p. 31 |
| The Belt | p. 31 |
| Touch | p. 32 |
| Size Is Relative | p. 33 |
| Rose | p. 33 |
| Boyhood Winter | p. 34 |
| A Suburban Childhood | p. 35 |
| Sins of the Fathers | p. 36 |
| My Daughter at 14: Christmas Dance, 1981 | p. 37 |
| The Mystery | p. 38 |
| Gifts | p. 38 |
| Father Falling | p. 39 |
| Our Room | p. 40 |
| Once a Long Time Ago | p. 41 |
| Mattress Fire | p. 43 |
| Step on His Head | p. 44 |
| The Struggle | p. 45 |
| Passages | p. 46 |
| Looking for Him | p. 47 |
| Remembering Brother Bob | p. 48 |
| The Exciting New Concept of Art Therapy | p. 49 |
| A Story | p. 52 |
| The Lizard's Tango | p. 53 |
| The Backup | p. 54 |
| Black Patent Leather Shoes | p. 56 |
| Short-Wave | p. 57 |
| For My Father's Mother Who Has Alzheimer's | p. 58 |
| I Just Wanna Testify | p. 61 |
| Anti-Father | p. 62 |
| Foreign Exchange | |
| The Skokie Theatre | p. 66 |
| The Youngest Children of an Angel | p. 67 |
| He | p. 68 |
| Foreign Exchange | p. 68 |
| Fet Walks Melody Home | p. 70 |
| Questions and Answers | p. 71 |
| Steven Pudenz | p. 72 |
| Dirty Panes | p. 73 |
| Nineteen | p. 74 |
| All Their Names Were Vincent | p. 76 |
| The Inner Man | p. 77 |
| The Locker Room | p. 78 |
| In the Orchard | p. 80 |
| Summer, At Home | p. 80 |
| January | p. 81 |
| Where Are You Going? | p. 83 |
| Spoon | p. 84 |
| Equality | p. 85 |
| Hey Sweetie | p. 85 |
| Conversation with a Fireman from Brooklyn | p. 86 |
| Proposal | p. 87 |
| Fish Fact | p. 88 |
| The Ubiquity of the Need for Love | p. 89 |
| Love | p. 90 |
| Goodbye Note to Debbie Fuller: Pass it On | p. 91 |
| Performances | p. 93 |
| Meaning Well | p. 94 |
| Jump City | p. 95 |
| The Passion and Woe in Marriage: A Ukranian Love Story | p. 95 |
| Quarrel | p. 96 |
| Your Hands | p. 97 |
| Two Men | p. 98 |
| January | p. 99 |
| The Yellow Hills in Back | p. 100 |
| For Night Comes | p. 101 |
| Marriage | p. 102 |
| Estrangements | p. 103 |
| The Friendship | p. 104 |
| Gone Away | p. 105 |
| We Were Love | p. 105 |
| Dressed Up | p. 106 |
| With Reservations | p. 107 |
| The Real Thing | p. 108 |
| Astonishment | p. 109 |
| Autobiography | p. 109 |
| The Clothespin | p. 110 |
| Surplus Blues | p. 111 |
| This Woman | p. 112 |
| Goodbye | p. 112 |
| Elevator | p. 114 |
| Namelessness | p. 115 |
| Reach | p. 116 |
| The Real Names of Everything | |
| Ode to Tomatoes | p. 118 |
| Canning Season | p. 119 |
| It Happens Working | p. 120 |
| To a Set of Drawing Pencils | p. 121 |
| For the Woman at the Fast-Food Fish Place Who Called Me Pig | p. 122 |
| Momma Sayings | p. 123 |
| The Pyramid of Khufu | p. 125 |
| Wheelchairs That Kneel Down Like Elephants | p. 127 |
| The Previous Occupant | p. 127 |
| Carpenter's Daughter | p. 129 |
| War | p. 130 |
| West Grand Boulevard | p. 130 |
| Cow Worship | p. 131 |
| Cow | p. 132 |
| Typographical Errors | p. 133 |
| Teaching Myself to Read | p. 133 |
| Kitchens | p. 134 |
| Living Lean | p. 135 |
| The Old Dream Oven | p. 136 |
| The Dream Kitchen | p. 137 |
| A Plague of Telephones | p. 139 |
| Long Distance Calls | p. 139 |
| Mother | p. 140 |
| The Teacher I Wanted to Be | p. 141 |
| Lament for an Old Woman | p. 142 |
| One Man's Family | p. 143 |
| The Unwritten | p. 145 |
| Emily Dickinson's To-Do List | p. 146 |
| A Little Piece of Sky | p. 148 |
| War Rug | p. 149 |
| Plant Poem | p. 151 |
| Letting the Parakeet Fly | p. 152 |
| Small poems | p. 152 |
| Elegy | p. 154 |
| Separate Longings | |
| Revelations, First Time | p. 156 |
| Androgeny | p. 157 |
| The Shapes of Leaves | p. 157 |
| Images | p. 158 |
| Burning the Dolls | p. 159 |
| The Field Trip | p. 160 |
| Summer Morning | p. 162 |
| Depending on the Light | p. 164 |
| August | p. 165 |
| When I Was Young on an Island | p. 165 |
| How to Hug Your Three-Year-Old Daughter | p. 167 |
| 4 daughters | p. 169 |
| Disappearing | p. 169 |
| Medusa Cement | p. 171 |
| The Lion Tamer | p. 172 |
| Tallness | p. 173 |
| Who'd Want To Be A Man? | p. 174 |
| To Be A Woman | p. 175 |
| Lunchtime | p. 176 |
| Peace | p. 177 |
| The Onion Woman | p. 179 |
| My Mother's Blue Vase | p. 180 |
| Everyone | p. 181 |
| String Affair | p. 182 |
| The Family | p. 183 |
| April Rape | p. 184 |
| On M. Butterfly | p. 185 |
| Tracing Back | p. 186 |
| A Missed Opportunity | p. 187 |
| Snow | p. 188 |
| We Say | p. 190 |
| Dennis's Sky Leopard | p. 191 |
| Wild Strawberries | p. 193 |
| Camellias | p. 194 |
| Dressing My Daughter | p. 195 |
| Fitting Room | p. 196 |
| Beginnings | p. 197 |
| Late, Watching Television | p. 198 |
| Golden Season | p. 199 |
| Dark Song | p. 200 |
| Driving My Parents Home at Christmas | p. 201 |
| I Remember the Room Was Filled with Light | p. 202 |
| Was It | p. 202 |
| Coats | p. 203 |
| Romance | p. 203 |
| Archaeology | p. 204 |
| The Congressman Visits the Grade School | p. 205 |
| The Secretary Chant | p. 206 |
| Mountain Men | p. 201 |
| Bali Hai Calls Mama | p. 208 |
| Here I Am | p. 210 |
| The Lost Girls | p. 213 |
| Travelling Together | p. 217 |
| Contributors' Notes | p. 219 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 247 |
| Index of Poems | p. 257 |
| Index to Female Poets | p. 259 |
| Index to Male Poets | p. 260 |
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