February -- Against whistling -- Stoop -- Broken pipes -- Aliens -- Life fools -- The crossing -- Dumb -- Rapture -- Casals -- Israel Grossman -- I who lifted a car -- Gracehoper -- Donkey -- Garnish -- Eleanor -- Leaves -- Sugar -- Two graces -- Spring -- Angel -- Sinai -- Domestic -- I caused his death -- Dream IV -- Zikel -- 26 Vandam -- The two Pyrenees -- Lupe -- Yellow moon -- Frogs -- In beauty bright -- Journey -- Kafeteria -- Books -- Goat -- Stern's cigars with Sholem Aleichem -- Magnolia -- Blue intact -- Died in the mills -- Rosenblatt -- Norman riding -- June through September -- Iberia.
Independence Day -- The name -- Broken glass -- The Frick mansion -- Max factor -- Soll ihr gornisht helfen -- Voltage -- For D. -- Thoreau's metaphor -- Slow to learn -- Hyena -- Rage -- A Hole -- Too late -- The farm -- Love -- Nostalgia -- For beauty's sake -- The Farewell -- Nietzsche -- San Jose 1985 -- Sleeping with birds -- Immigrants -- My Libby -- Eastside -- 86th birthday at MacDowell -- Traveling cages -- Box -- Effigies -- Angel of death -- Plaster pig -- Apt. 5 FW I -- Counting -- Art -- Apt. 5 FW II -- Creeley -- Orangey -- The lost mountain -- The beginnings -- Day of grief -- Why anger like that? -- Droit de faim -- 1946 -- Bio III -- Lowness.
Summary
A collection of poems by American poet Gerald Stern that reflect on aging and humanity.