Cover subtitle: an outstanding collection of the world's best contemporary poetry selected by the editor of Antaeus magazine.

"Bantam Windstone books."

He kept on burning -- The gilded man -- How can you look at the Neva... -- Pushkin -- I am not one of those who left the land... -- This cruel age has deflected me -- Metamorphosis of the carnation -- Charlie's sad date -- Terminations -- American landscape with clouds & a zoo -- The time machine -- Winter light -- Looking for poetry -- Crazy weather -- Robin Hood's barn -- Bird's-eye view of the Tool and Die Co. -- Now way of knowing -- Lyrics for "Man of LaMancha" -- Trinket -- That time in Tangier -- Late naps -- Healing -- First night at Sea -- Transit -- Nowhere -- Apollo 8 -- Memorial for a fisherman -- The wood house over the Wilia -- The mask of evil -- A new house -- A film of the comedian Chaplin -- Letter to the actor Charles Laughton -- Sonnet -- Spring season of muddy roads -- Einem alten architekten in Rom -- Eleanor -- Twilight comes -- Myris: Alexandia, A.D. 340 -- Their beginning -- In the evening -- In the tavernas -- On board ship -- Dareios -- By day -- Memory of France -- Your hair over the sea -- Burial in Cypress Hills -- Agreeable monsters -- Ten poems -- The gun -- Seeing off a friend -- Farmyard at Chassy -- To Michael -- The Duchess' red shoes -- What a circus -- Untitled poem (the monarchs) -- Untitled poems (When the window...) -- The decimation before Phraata -- Toward the Verrazano -- Looking for a rest area -- Choosing to think of it -- The having to love something else -- The rat's tight schedule -- The bachelor's hand -- The hourglass -- The manure book -- Muskrat -- Sestina for my dead in the first snow -- Terribilis est locus iste -- After Brecht -- Of growing old -- How many devils can dance on the point... -- Departure -- Taking off my clothes -- Kalaloch -- Barbarians -- Amor vacui -- It is a lie -- Autobiography -- I've slept -- It's useless -- The schizophrenics -- Of kings and dukes -- Hedge-sparrows and house-sparrows -- The horse in the drugstore -- Kidnapper -- Into the known -- Old men on the courthouse lawn, Murray, Kentucky -- Cache la poudre -- The last man's club -- Dialog -- Horse -- Messengers -- Aubade -- Palais des arts -- Descending figure -- Dedication to hunger -- San Sepolcro -- Masaccio's expulsion -- A note to the difficult one -- Language ah now you have me -- The girl I call Alma -- The chorus speaks her words as she dances -- Three songs -- The fair in the woods -- The whale in the blue washing machine -- The ghost hunter -- The whistle column -- Josh Gibson's bat -- My students who stand in snow -- Lecturing on the theme of motherhood -- Meditation at Lagunitas -- Novella -- Vintage -- Monticello -- The return of Robinson Jeffers -- Rusia en 1931 -- Sigil VIII-XIX -- Bog queen -- The strand at Lough beg -- Field work -- Ugolino -- A voice at a seance -- Still life -- Beethoven -- Mr. Cogito- the return -- The murderers of kings -- The power of taste -- Report from the besieged city -- The flears -- Disagreements -- Refrains -- The comedy of art -- Nadar -- Monkey difference -- At Mrs. Alefounder's -- Cockcrow -- Tractor -- Birth of rainbow -- Teaching a dumb calf -- Bridestones -- Prometheus on his crag -- A night with Cindy at Heitman's -- Note to R.H. from Strongsville -- Death in the aquarium -- Druid stones at Kensaleyre -- Retired lion by the clothesline in the cold attic -- Sleep in the heat -- Probably the farmer -- Mule team and poster -- Childhood -- The summer anniversaries -- Unflushed urinals -- The furies -- Driftwood from a ship -- The man splitting wood in the daybreak -- December day in Honolulu -- Exodus -- The snakes of September -- Three small parables for my poet friends -- The trees -- To the sea -- Harvest -- You can have it -- Paraguay -- 7 years from somewhere -- Montjuich -- Garcia Lorca: a photograph of the Granada cemetery, 1966 -- Lost fan. Hotel Californian, Fresno, 1923 -- Believe it -- Man asleep in a child's bed -- Graveyard by the sea -- Elegy for Frank Stanford -- A disused shed in Co. Wexford -- The age -- Feodosia -- Stanzas -- Waking at dusk from a nap -- The psychopathology of everyday life -- An airline breakfast -- Nabokov's death -- Spring snow -- Animal song -- Double agent -- The firefly -- Sisters -- Children -- 7,22,66 -- The compound eye -- If the Cardinals were like us -- A look askance -- Chimes for Yahya -- Beggars and kings -- The cliff dance -- Old flag -- Late spring -- Companion -- Sand -- On prayer -- Ars poetica? -- A magic mountain -- Into the tree -- Consciousness -- Poet at seventy -- Dowager -- Mother cat -- The eel -- Little testament -- Two in twilight -- Visit to Fadin -- Hitler spring -- Old tiger -- Storm warning -- Stars -- After a death -- Song of the invisible corpse in the field -- Concerning the stone -- "Transients welcome" -- Notes for an elegy: for John Gardner -- Weather forecast -- The goat god -- South seas -- October cycle -- The bracelet -- The ringers -- The superb lily -- The volume -- Song of reasons -- Three on luck -- Stings -- Words heard, by accident, over the phone -- Another November -- After Whistler -- Wildflower -- Lapsed meadow -- Cows -- Linoleum: breaking down -- Retrieval system -- Baroque quatrains -- Sub rosa -- Passion -- A candystore in Washington Heights -- Whitman at a grain depot -- From a survivor -- Living in the cave -- For the dead -- Women -- Disfigurement -- Penelope's despair -- Philomela -- Marpessa's choice -- Augmentation of the unknown -- Our land -- Despisals -- Double ode -- Terra incognita -- Winter landscape with a girl in brown shoes -- Madam Orchidee -- Instructions for fishing the eel -- Planting trout in the Chicago River -- Navel -- Arbeit macht frei -- Paper cities -- Birds on a blighted tree -- The messenger -- Summer solstice -- When the ashes -- Burning ship -- Mortar salvos -- To like, to love -- The twelve-thousand day honeymoon -- The death king -- Hornet -- Lobster -- A theory -- Bedtime story -- The soup -- The healer -- Apocrypha -- Great infirmities -- Snow owl -- Sucking: after Maupassant -- Cooking eggs -- Drag race -- A skull changed to glass -- Late Stravinsky listening to late Beethoven -- Auden's funeral -- For a daughter gone away -- Report to Crazy Horse -- Ice, ice -- Fritz -- Pick and poke -- Ground hog lock -- Slow dance -- For Lerida -- The day of the sentry -- She -- Poor North -- The story -- Poem after leopardi -- First walk on the moon -- Under the baby blanket -- Summer night -- Sloops in the bay -- The powder of sympathy -- On to the source -- Mackinnon's boat -- At night -- Sleep -- En route -- Gogol -- For Mats and Laila -- The winter's glance -- Molokai -- The gallery -- "And don't bother" -- "One pillar holding" -- Pagan woman -- Sweet everlasting -- Letter from Vermont -- Blue Ridge -- A police manual -- Salmon boy -- The boy who became sky -- Names -- Egypt, Tobago -- Greece -- Roman outposts -- Europa -- Marina Tsvetayeva -- Boyhood in tobacco country -- Summer rain in mountains -- Function of blizzard -- Rumor verified -- Off to Patagonia -- An everlasting once -- Combat -- Eight improvisations -- Ars poetica -- Virginia reel -- Holy Thursday -- Four poems for the New Year -- Dawn near an old battlefield, in a time of peace -- Taranto -- Names in Monterchi: to Rachel -- Jerome in solitude -- Regret for a spider web -- The turtle overnight -- Simon and tarantula.