The dead and the living: poems

Pt. 1. Poems for the Dead

Public

Ideographs

Photograph of the Girl

Race Riot, Tulsa, 1921

Portrait of a Child

Nevsky Prospekt

The Death of Marilyn Monroe

The Issues

Aesthetics of the Shah

Things That Are Worse Than Death

Private

The Guild

Grandmother Love Poem

The Eye

Birthday Poem for My Grandmother

Of All the Dead That Have Come to Me, This Once

Farewell Poem

The Winter After Your Death

Miscarriage

The End

Best Friends

Absent One

Pt. 2. Poems for the Living

The Family

Possessed

The Victims

The Forms

The Departure

Burn Center

The Ideal Father

Fate

My Father Snoring

The Moment

My Father's Breasts

The Takers

The Pact

The Derelict

Late Speech with My Brother

The Elder Sister

The Men

The Connoisseuse of Slugs

Poem to My First Lover

New Mother

The Line

The Fear of Oneself

Poem to My Husband from My Father's Daughter

Sex Without Love

Ecstasy

The Children

Exclusive

Six-Year-Old Boy

Eggs

Size and Sheer Will

For My Daughter

Rite of Passage

Relinquishment

Son

Pre-Adolescent in Spring

Blue Son

Pajamas

The Killer

The Sign of Saturn

Armor

35/10

The Missing Boy

Bread

Bestiary

tThe One Girl at the Boys' Party

The Couple.