The death of sitting bear: new and selected poems

Bequest

In the forest

A Siberian hunter, remembrance

To the farther camps

A darkness comes

A hero's burial

The Kiowa no-face doll

A sloven

Alaskan games

A modest boast (toast)

A note on animals

Ago

Division

The night sky at Coppermine

Song fragments

For Wallace Stevens

The woman looking in

Transparency

Spectre

The great Fillmore streed buffalo drive

The snow mare

The bone strikers

Yahweh to Urset

The essence of belonging

To an aged bear

The bear

A benign self-portrait

Prayer for words

On the cause of a homely death

The blind astrologers

The pursuit of man by God

Revenant

Death comes for Beowulf

The mythic harpoon

Before an old painting of the Crucifixion

A silence like frost

Angle of geese

Birdsong

Shade

On the neva

The whale in amber

The dragon of Saint-Bertrand-de-Comminges

Nous avons vu la mer

A chronicle

Before and after

The theft of identity

A couplet in tongues

Dictum

Need

JFK

Song of longing

Stones

Poem after lunch

Approach

English, the language

A story of light

This train

War chronicle

The rider of two gray hills

Visitation at Amherst

Fire

First poem

Meditation on wilderness

Olga

The galleries

Remembering Milosz and "Esse"

Death song

Dichos

A witness to creation

Sobremesa

Appearances

Arrest

An oasis there of many colors

Afterimage

The listener

The first day

Revision of the plains

A blooming of appearances

Sweetgrass

Rustic dream

Severance

Seasonal

Rough rider

Almost love

On spring in the Alexander gardens

This morning the whirling wind

A century of impressions

The death of sitting bear

Note (on Set-t'an calendar entry)

Set-t'an calendar entry

Susquehanna

Pigments

Linguist

Dancers on the beach

Ultimas

The spheres

A presence in the trees

On the stair

Lines for my daughter

There came a ghost

Nenets

A measure of rain

La tierra del encanto

To Gaye

Jornada del muerto

Octave

Yellow the land and sere

The window through which the light of a candle glowed

Torrent

Reconciliation

A mythology of belief

Northern dawn

The pilgrims

Babushka

A woman walking

Seams

Gamesmen

Prairie hymn.