| Foreword | p. 19 |
| The Weather of Six Mornings: Poems 1954-1967 (1969) | |
| Morning on the St. John's | p. 25 |
| Leaving Water Hyacinths | p. 27 |
| The Faithful | p. 28 |
| Blind Girl | p. 29 |
| For My Mother in Her First Illness, from a Window Overlooking Notre Dame | p. 30 |
| Snow in the City | p. 31 |
| Rock Climbing | p. 32 |
| The Builder of Houses | p. 35 |
| For a Very Old Man, on the Death of His Wife | p. 38 |
| Bermuda | p. 40 |
| For Thomas Hardy | p. 41 |
| Practicing for Death | p. 42 |
| Acceptances | p. 45 |
| The Sundial | p. 45 |
| The Graveyard | p. 46 |
| The Racetrack | p. 47 |
| In the Last Few Moments Came the Old German Cleaning Woman | p. 48 |
| A Little Vesper | p. 49 |
| Roman Dream | p. 50 |
| These High White Walls | p. 51 |
| In the House of the Dying | p. 52 |
| My Young Mother | p. 53 |
| The Figure on the Far Side | p. 54 |
| Iron | p. 55 |
| All the Leaves Were Green | p. 56 |
| Letters | p. 57 |
| The Weather of Six Mornings | p. 58 |
| March | p. 64 |
| Feathers | p. 64 |
| Hunger Moon | p. 65 |
| El Sueno de la Razon | p. 66 |
| Back | p. 67 |
| No More Elegies | p. 68 |
| In Silence Where We Breathe | p. 69 |
| Middle Age | p. 70 |
| Coda | p. 71 |
| Maps and Windows (1974) | |
| Mercator's World: Poems 1947-1951 | p. 75 |
| Eve | p. 78 |
| For a Boy Born in Wartime | p. 79 |
| P.O.W. | p. 80 |
| The Door | p. 81 |
| A poem with capital letters | p. 82 |
| Song | p. 83 |
| The Urge To Tell the Truth | p. 84 |
| Twins | p. 85 |
| The Knowledge That Comes Through Experience | p. 86 |
| Long View from the Suburbs | p. 87 |
| After the Bomb Tests | p. 88 |
| In a Room with Picassos | p. 90 |
| Gaza | p. 91 |
| Meteors | p. 92 |
| A Bedside Rune | p. 93 |
| Obligations | p. 94 |
| Nothing Has Been Used in the Manufacture of This Poetry That Could Have Been Used in the Manufacture of Bread | p. 95 |
| Dispossessions: Poems 1968-1973 | p. 123 |
| Messages | p. 125 |
| Poetry As Continuity | p. 126 |
| After the Blackout (1965) | p. 127 |
| Dream in Which the Routine Quality of My Imagination Is Fully Exposed | p. 128 |
| Cemetery in Pernambuco: Our Lady of Light | p. 129 |
| 95[degree] | p. 130 |
| Holding Out | p. 131 |
| Dispossessions | p. 132 |
| Things | p. 132 |
| Souvenirs | p. 133 |
| Inheritances | p. 134 |
| A Circle, a Square, a Triangle and a Ripple of Water | p. 135 |
| Suicide Note | p. 136 |
| A Nightmare of the Suburbs | p. 137 |
| The Earthquake | p. 138 |
| Pencil Sketch of Self and Other | p. 139 |
| Waiting | p. 140 |
| Scaffolding: Poems 1975-1983 (1984) | |
| The Flashboat | p. 143 |
| All These Dreams | p. 145 |
| Scattered Words for Emily Dickinson | p. 146 |
| S. Eliason 66: Double Portrait of Emily Dickinson and the Rev. Charles Wadsworth | p. 147 |
| Evening Star (Georgia O'Keeffe) | p. 148 |
| Olympic Rain Forest | p. 149 |
| Starting with a Line from Roethke | p. 150 |
| The River in All Lights, from an Upstairs Window | p. 151 |
| Jittoku, Buddhist Mystic--15th Century | p. 152 |
| A Mission with the Night | p. 153 |
| Rent | p. 154 |
| Conversation by the Body's Light | p. 155 |
| Praise | p. 156 |
| The Blue Anchor | p. 157 |
| Threads: Rosa Luxemburg from Prison | p. 158 |
| Wronke, Spring 1917 | p. 158 |
| Breslau, November-December 1917 | p. 161 |
| Breslau, Spring 1918 | p. 165 |
| Green Notebook, Winter Road: Poems 1981-1993 (1994) | |
| On the Edge of the Moment | p. 171 |
| The Green Notebook | p. 173 |
| Ordinary Detail | p. 174 |
| My friend | p. 175 |
| My Mother in Three Acts | p. 176 |
| What the Seer Said | p. 177 |
| Estrangement | p. 179 |
| Long, Disconsolate Lines | p. 180 |
| Mourning Picture | p. 181 |
| For the Recorder of Suicides | p. 182 |
| Nothing I Meant To Keep | p. 183 |
| Bloodroot | p. 184 |
| The Calling | p. 185 |
| Family Stories | p. 187 |
| Hotel de Dream | p. 189 |
| Mary Coldwell | p. 191 |
| From the Journal Concerning My Father | p. 192 |
| Childhood in Jacksonville, Florida | p. 197 |
| The Hobby Lobby | p. 198 |
| Class | p. 200 |
| Wanda's Blues | p. 201 |
| The Past | p. 202 |
| Being Southern | p. 203 |
| Seventeen Questions About King Kong | p. 205 |
| Clementene | p. 207 |
| How Can I Speak for Her? | p. 209 |
| Give Us This Day | p. 213 |
| The Infusion Room | p. 215 |
| The Children's Ward | p. 218 |
| Vocation: A Life | p. 231 |
| The Winter Road | p. 233 |
| Vocation: A Life: Suite Based on Four Words from Willa Cather | p. 237 |
| Desire | p. 237 |
| Romance | p. 240 |
| Possession | p. 242 |
| Unfurnishing | p. 246 |
| Notes | p. 251 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 257 |
| Index | p. 259 |
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