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Contents

Contents Acknowledgments ix f o l l o w i n g t h e o r t h o d o x m e n Women Must Put Off Their Rich Apparel 3 Following the Orthodox Men 4 From the Forest of Canes 5 Concerning the Islands Newly Discovered 7 Taxonomy 8 A Nation So Ignorant of Itself 10 Some Rain 12 t h e w o r d w i f e On Wardman Road 15 From the Water 17 Falling 18 Abraham Considers 19 Four Storeys 20 Handwork 21 Nuptial 22 Solstice 23 A Visit to Seattle 24 Falling Toward the Furnace 26 Tour Book of Northeastern States 27 Sunday morning and the light 28 The Word Wife 29 Aubade 30 Lullaby, Four a.m. 31 The Old Woman’s Delight 32 Café 33 vii t o g e t h e r i n a s m a l l r o o m In the Old Jewish Cemetery, Prague 37 Metamorphosis 38 Together in a Small Room (1975) 39 At Terezin (1992) 40 What Remains 41 The Entrance 42 t o a f a l s e g o d 24th and Mission 45 You eat with your fingers 46 Photograph of Plath 47 Emergency 48 To a False God 49 L’Arrivéê d’un Train en Gare 50 O How Unlike the Place from Whence They Fell 51 From That Tree, You Must Not Eat 52 The Imperfect Is Our Paradise 53 After John Taggart 54 Note Found Inside a Mezuzah 55 Still Life 56 Colophon 57 Notes 59 viii ...