A Sail to Great Island

Publication Year: 2004

The first full-length collection in many years by an award-winning poet whose work has appeared in The Atlantic, The New Yorker, The Nation, Poetry, The Kenyon Review, The Threepenny Review, and a host of other journals.

Published by: University of Wisconsin Press

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pp. vii-viii

Acknowledgments

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pp. ix-

I

II

Family Happiness

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pp. 25-26

Girls in the Museum

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pp. 27-28

Self-Portrait

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pp. 29-

For Sam

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pp. 30-31

At the Château Noir

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pp. 32-33

Using Anne Frank

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pp. 34-

In My Dream I Appear before the Senate

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pp. 35-36

On Brattle Street

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pp. 37-38

The Back of the Building

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pp. 39-40

Old Post Card from the Jura

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pp. 41-

Sailing Solo

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pp. 42-43

By the Time I Met Brian’s Father

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pp. 44-

I Come Back from a Sail

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pp. 45-46

To Solitude

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pp. 47-

Bill Evans Plays Never Let Me Go

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pp. 48-

III

This Fog

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Reason

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My Century

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pp. 53-54

Early Spring

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Two Deer

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pp. 56-57

A Weeping Cherry Tree

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pp. 58-60

Spring

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pp. 61-67

Letter from My Working Self to My Resting Self

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pp. 68-

Grayness

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The Couple at the Window

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After Watching Twyla Tharp

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pp. 72-

E-ISBN-13: 9780299202637
Print-ISBN-13: 9780299202606

Publication Year: 2004

Series Title: Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry

A Sail to Great Island

Contents

Acknowledgments

I

On the Mooring

A Memoir

Listening to Keats

Pavane

Beside the Broad Dordogne

A Visit from My Sister (c. 1982)

On Memorial Drive

Woman

Dissolving the Boundaries

Contemporary American Poetry

Girl with Sunflower in Hand

II