A collection of sixty poems touching on the essence of existence: life, joy, sorrow, death. "Here is poetry, with the heft that comes from a gift for catching in flight a particular person, a place, an event, an object." -Michael G. Cooke, Yale University.
- Cover
- Table of Contents
- Foreword
- I. Landscape
- Lugano
- August4, 1983
- Beggar with Saint Vitus' Dance
- Caretaker
- Chiaroscuri
- Charterhouse of Maggiano
- "The Deep Heart's Core"
- Eris
- Leaving
- You No Longer Sail the Boat
- Exile
- Memory-house
- "Garda See"
- Stay
- Night Walks Unaware
- The Sap of Oleander Thickened in Your Veins
- II. Something Flowering
- In Sevilla
- Return to "El Almendral"
- Clarity Over the Adriatic
- Middlehours, Gulf of Marseilles
- Avignon, 1984
- Exiles
- Landscape
- Evening-time Collage
- Entering a Sunken Garden
- Lights at Romsdal
- "Not Blue Roses"
- III. Quarrel with Death
- Sunset
- Insomnia
- Transitions
- Night Over Gibraltar
- Ravenna, 1985
- Prison Night
- Telephone Call, 3 a.m
- Requiem
- As Rain the Flesh
- On the Shoulder of the Westward Wind
- Fish
- Long Distance
- Sure Thing
- What Will Happen to You?
- IV. Miserere
- Miserere
- Mine-field—1946
- Sing a Lullaby
- Orders: Don't Let Him See Your Shadow
- In Memory of RobertoTinti, Called Bob
- Out of Bounds
- War Village
- August Night in the Emilian Lowlands
- This Sunday Long Ago
- Po Valley
- Auschwitz Revisited
- Diaspora for John Pauker
- Song of a Mother to Her Child
- Frankfurt am Main
- V. At the Edge of the Land
- Rain
- Spring 1982
- Confluence
- I Shall Be There
- Black Cemetery in Georgetown
- Melpomene: the Singing One
- Late Afternoon
- "Je m'appelle..."
- "See Me,"
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