Country Music: Selected Early Poems

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CONTENTS Foreword: "Charles Wright's Country Music'" by David St. John / xiii Preface / xxiii The Grave of the Right Hand Aubade / 3 The Poet Grows Older / 4 The Voyage / 5 Nocturne / 6 Storm / 7 Hard Freight Homage to Ezra Pound / n Homage to Arthur Rimbaud / 13 Homage to Baron Corvo / 14 Homage to X / 16 The New Poem / 17 Portrait of the Poet in Abraham von Werdt's Dream / 18 Chinoiserie / 19 One Two Three / 20 White / 21 Firstborn / 22 Slides of Verona / 28 Grace / 29 Negatives / 30 The Fever Toy / 31 Notes for Oscar Wilde at San Miniato / 32 Oscar Wilde at San Miniato / 33 Nocturne / 34 Yellow / 35 Dog Creek Mainline / 36 Blackwater Mountain / 38 Sky Valley Rider / 39 Sex / 41 Northhanger Ridge / 42 Primogeniture / 44 Nightdream / 45 Congenital / 47 Clinchficld Station / 48 Bloodlines Virgo Descending / 51 Easter, 1974 / 53 Cancer Rising / 54 Tattoos / 56 Notes to Tattoos / 76 Hardin County / 77 Delta Traveller / 79 Skins / 82 Notes to Skins / 102 Link Chain / 103 Bays Mountain Covenant / 106 Rural Route / 107 X / CONTENTS China Trace Childhood / m Snow / 112 Self-Portrait in 2035 / 113 Morandi / 114 Dog / 115 Snapshot / 116 Indian Summer / 117 Wishes / 118 Quotidians / 119 At Zero / 120 Sentences / 121 Death / 122 Next / 123 January / 124 1975 / 125 Nerval's Mirror / 126 Edvard Munch / 127 Bygones / 128 Equation / 129 California Twilight / 130 Anniversary / 131 12 Lines at Midnight / 132 Dino Campana / 133 Invisible Landscape / 134 Remembering San Zeno / 135 Born Again / 136 Captain Dog / 137 CONTENTS / xi Depression Before the Solstice / 138 Stone Canyon Nocturne / 139 Reply to Chi K'ang / 140 Reunion / 141 "Where Moth and Rust Doth Corrupt" / 142 April / 143 Signature / 144 Noon / 145 Going Home / 146 Cloud River / 147 Reply to Lapo Gianni / 148 Thinking of Georg Trakl / 149 Spider Crystal Ascension / 150 Moving On / 151 Clear Night / 152 Autumn / 153 Sitting at Night on the Front Porch / 154 Saturday 6 a.m. / 155 Him / 156 xii / CONTENTS ...