A collection of poems addresses such topics as family history, music, language, art, and mortality In a collection that represents over thirty-five years of her writing life, this distinguished poet explores a wide range of subjects, which include her cultural and family history and reflect her fascination with music and the discoveries offered by language. New Poems 1 Curriculum Vitae 5(2) Place and Time 7(2) Immortality 9(1) Losing My Sight 10(1) An Unanswered Question 11(1) Eyes and Ears 12(1) Paper-White Narcissus 13(1) Midwinter Notes 14(2) Pillar of Salt 16(5) 2 Statues 21(1) The Laughter of Women 22(1) Pigeons 23(1) Imaginary Paintings 24(2) Things 26(1) Tears 27(1) Mirrors 28(1) An Afterlife 29(1) Heartland 30(1) American Literature 31(1) Silence and Dancing 32(1) The Late-Born Daughters 33(1) Happy and Unhappy Families I 34(1) Happy and Unhappy Families II 35(1) Reader 36(1) Animals Are Entering Our Lives 37(2) Why I Need the Birds 39(1) A Short History of the Rose 40(2) In November 42(1) Night Voyage: A Dream 43(4) 3 Captivity 47(6) From Dependencies (1965) The Blind Leading the Blind 53(1) In the Thriving Season 54(1) The Power of Music to Disturb 55(2) On Finding a Bird's Bones in the Woods 57(1) Cicadas 58(1) The Mermaid 59(1) Moon Fishing 60(1) A Grackle Observed 61(1) The Lonesome Dream 62(1) The Queen of Sheba Says Farewell 63(2) Figure for a Landscape 65(1) ``O Brave New World, That Hath Such People in It'' 66(1) In Memory of Anton Webern, Dead September 15, 1945 67(4) From The Private Life (1976) Whoever You Are: A Letter 71(1) Small Poem About the Hounds and the Hares 72(1) Reading the Brothers Grimm to Jenny 73(2) Highway Poems 75(4) The Fall of the Muse 79(1) The Biographer 80(1) January Afternoon, with Billie Holiday 81(1) Life of a Queen 82(2) Alive Together 84(2) My Grandmother's Gold Pin 86(2) On Reading an Anthology of Postwar German Poetry 88(1) What the Dog Perhaps Hears 89(1) Palindrome 90(1) Snow 91(1) The Private Life 92(2) The Late News 94(1) A Nude by Edward Hopper 95(1) In Praise of Surfaces 96(2) Naming the Animals 98(1) Love like Salt 99(1) The Concert 100(1) A Farewell, a Welcome 101(2) Hope 103(1) Letter from the End of the World 104(5) From The Need to Hold Still (1980) For a Thirteenth Birthday 109(2) Another Version 111(1) Drawings by Children 112(2) Fiction 114(1) Sometimes, When the Light 115(1) Beginning with 1914 116(2) Talking to Helen 118(4) Daughter 122(1) Merce Cunningham and the Birds 123(1) Not Only the Eskimos 124(2) Found in the Cabbage Patch 126(1) One More Hymn to the Sun 127(2) The Cook 129(1) Picking Raspberries 130(1) The Need to Hold Still 131(3) Voices from the Forest 134(5) The Triumph of Life: Mary Shelley 139(6) The Story 145(1) The Artist's Model, ca. 1912 146(1) The End of Science Fiction 147(2) What Will You Do 149(1) Why We Tell Stories 150(5) From Second Language (1986) Necessities 155(2) Voyager 157(2) Bread and Apples 159(1) The Garden 160(1) Blood Oranges 161(1) Your Tired, Your Poor 162(2) Identical Twins 164(1) Southpaw 165(1) After Whistler 166(1) The Questioning 167(1) Widow 168(1) The Exhibit 169(1) Letter to California 170(2) Metaphor 172(2) Storm 174(1) Accommodations 175(1) For the Strangers 176(2) Up North 178(1) Scenic Route 179(1) Reasons for Numbers 180(2) The Possessive Case 182(2) Stalking the Poem 184(2) Monet Refuses the Operation 186(2) What Is Left to Say 188(1) There Are Mornings 189(1) Fugitive 190(1) A Day like Any Other 191(1) Into Space 192(5) From Waving from Shore (1989) Missing the Dead 197(1) When I Am Asked 198(1) Joy 199(1) Cavalleria Rusticana 200(1) Magnolia 201(1) Visiting My Native Country with My American-Born Husband 202(1) Late Hours 203(1) Poem for My Birthday 204(1) Bedtime Story 205(1) Virtuosi 206(1) Three Poems About the Voiceless 207(2) Epilepsy, Petit Mal 209(1) Paul Delvaux: The Village of the Mermaids 210(1) Aphasia 211(1) Mary 212(1) After Your Death 213(1) All Night 214(1) The Deaf Dancing to Rock 215(1) Film Script 216(1) Triage 217(1) Muse 218(1) Slides 219(1) Brendel Playing Schubert 220(1) Romantics 221(1) Nocturne 222(1) Notes 223