Foreword by Charles Simic • Translators’ Introduction • FROM LITHE LOVE (1969) • “I come from far away” • “The way you came in and said hello” • “What a lack of pathos” • “Will I be unable to shut up” • “When the sun shouts golden orders” • “And she hugged him with all her sins” • “Fat-assed. Settling into the power” • “Smack in the heart of July” • Sailor’s Song • “What a great idea of her parents” • “Your sweaters” • “Half the time during the day, I slept” • FROM AS LONG AS SNOW REMAINS (1975) • After an Argument • Poetry • Elephant • The Rhinoceros • Triangle • Study in Color • Birthday Poem • FROM WITH A SOUND OF HOBO (1980) • Defuser of Mines • For Each Other • Hérault • Time Out • Two Kinds of Nothing • She and He • Mother • FROM ACRES OF MEMORY (1985) • Genesis • “He had hoped it could be done without autumn” • “If only he could, just like that, leave her” • In the Seaport of Oostduinkerke • Glass Shards in the Sun • FROM SINGULAR (1991) • “For six years she learned what lasting was” • “‘Yes, sleep,’ I say” • “She has all she needs for kissing” • On a Picture by Dre Peeters • “Just as this island belongs to the gulls” • “Once, a fist hit the table” • Juniper Tree, Canyonlands • Here • Yonder • FROM BREASTSTROKE (1994) • 1958 • Ann • Poetry • Snowmass Village • Paris, May 1st • Gendray • “Hop, in the curtains, hop on the tabletop” • “Profession: inspector general of rhododendrons” • Around and About • “What will you do today?” • Epithalamium • FROM FINGERPRINTS (1997) • Fingerprints on a Window • Evening, Mid-May • Pointillism • November • “Slow snowing. As if it snowed upwards” • Last Post • “If all rivers were made of ink” • May Evening, Gendray • Ars Poetica