Selected poems

Part 1: The Lute of Three Loudnesses: From four seasons in American woods

Dawn in threshing time

Schoolcraft's diary written on the Missouri: 1830

Where we must look for help.

Part 2: poems from The Road of Poverty and Death: The fire of despair has been our savior

When the dumb speak

A home in dark grass

A man writes to a part of himself

On a ferry across Chesapeake Bay

Defeated

Danger of loss

Awakening

Praise for all dancers

Gone, gone, gone.

Part 3: poems mainly from Silence in the snowy fields and This tree will be here for a thousand years: After drinking all night with a friend, we go out in a boat at dawn to see who can write the best poem

Hunting pheasants in a cornfield

Uneasiness in Fall

Solitude late at night in the woods

Snowfall in the afternoon

Snow geese

Watering the horse

Three kinds of pleasures

After long busyness

After working

Early Spring between Madison and Bellingham

Getting up late

Old boards

Surprised by evening

Poem in three parts

July morning.

Waking from sleep

Driving toward the Lac Qui Parle River

The loon's cry

Night

An emply place

Reading in the fall rain

Cornpicker poem

A dream of retarded children

Digging worms

Late moon

A dream on the night of first snow

Night of first snow

Six winter privacy poems

Out picking up corn

An evening when the full moon rose as the sun set.

Part 4: poems on the Vietnam War from The light around the body (1967) and The teeth mother naked at last (1970): The executive's death

Romans angry about the inner world

Pilgrim fish heads

At a march against the Vietnam war

Asian peace offers rejected without publication

Johnson's cabinet watched by ants

Near the giant's house

As the Asian war begins

War and silence

Counting small-boned bodies

Driving through Minnesota during the Hanoi bombings

Hatred of men with black hair

The teeth-mother naked at last.

Part 5: Prose poems mostly from The Morning Glory (1975): November day at McClure's Beach

Hollow tree

The Starfish

Calm day at Drake's Bay

Sitting on some rocks in Shaw Cove

Two sounds when we sit by the ocean

The dead seal

A caterpillar

Ants

The hockey poem

August rain

Christmas Eve service at midnight in St. Michael's

Opening the door of a barn I thought was empty on New Year's Eve

A bouquet of ten roses

The dried sturgeon

Grass from two years

The ant mansion.

Part 6: poems from Sleepers joining hands (1973): A dream of a brother

Night frogs

Falling asleep

December 23, 1926

A conversation

Aban Kavost and Ivar Oaseson

In mourning for betrayal

The woman bewildered

The man locked inside the oak

Chinese tomb guardians.

Part 7: poems from This body is made of camphor and gopherwood (1977): Walking swiftly

Finding the father

The upward moon and the downward moon

A dream of what is missing

The watcher

The origin of the praise of God

The orchard keeper

We love this body

Glimpse of the waterer

The cry going out over pastures.

Part 8: poems from The Man in the Black Coat Turns: Fifty males sitting together

The prodigal son

Snowbanks north of the house

Mourning Pablo Neruda

For my son Noah, ten years old

My father's wedding

Kennedy's inauguration

Visiting the Farallones

Crazy Carlson's meadow

A meditation on philosophy

Four ways of Knowledge

Kneeling down to look into a culvert

Words rising.

Part 9: poems from Loving a woman in two worlds (1985): Letter to her

In rainy September

The indigo bunting

Winter poem

"Out of the rolling ocean, the crowd..."

At Midocean

Ferns

A man and a woman sit near each other

At the time of peony blossoming

Love poem in twos and threes

Conversation with a holy woman not seen for many years

The good silence

The hawk

The horse of desire

Listening to the Köln concert

In the month of May

Afterthoughts: Whitman's lines as a public form

The prose poem as an evolving form.