Books in Chronological Order

Pages in a Second Round [1997]

Part One: The Inner Chapters

• Prolegomena

• Their Greatest Gifts

• From Jaw to Jaw

• As You Walk Through Your Play

• All That We Could Do

• Lexicography

• The Dual Ends

• In Our Own Image

• For the Better Enjoyment of My Wine

• The People on the Train

• That Other Place

• While We Were Sleeping

• Or So It Seemed

• You’re It!

• To Where the Others Fled

• An Earlier Chapter

• As Laughter Does

• Upon a Plotted Terrain

• Apollo

• Too Early on Their Mission

• Through the Longuers

• At Rehearsal A

• From Rung to Rung

• Left with the Helves

• Angelology

• Your Timeless Riff

• At Large

• Galapagos

• Language's Brass Spittoon

• My Sobriquet

• The Taskmaster

• Pierrot Lunaire

• The Death of Confucius

• As You Walk Through Your Poem

• Language's Cancun

• When the New World Was Still Being Peopled

• The Realm of the Blessed

• The Name

• Trailing the Emperor

• The Way

• Elderly Woman with Bound Feet

• The Spaces in Which Things Happen

• When the Lights Are Out

• Down Through the Village

• The Greater Remove

• The Gliding Intervals

• The Waking Contender

• The Way to Show Piety

• On Your Way into Sleep

• Limits and Distinctions

• Around the Pole

• Zarathustra's Lament

• The Hunred Pacer

• The Story of Civilization

• The Right Avowal

• After the Giants

• Life Is a Turtle

• Diaspora

• The Trenchant Word

• The Southernmost Curve

• This Other Earth

• Anonymous Bosch

• Monadology I

• The Dream of the Butterfly

• Monadology II

• Hu and Shu in the Kingdom of Chaos

• Monadology III

• How the Giants Were Born

• The Season's Braille

• The Anecdotal Baron

• For Jay

Pages in a Second Round: A Verse Interword

Part Two: The Outer Chapters

• Bringing It All Back Home

• Fifty Links

• According to Wit

• Down in the Rubble

• Children's Corner

• The Tortoise and the Hare

• Color-by-Numbers

• Aloof in the Flesh

• Our Greatest Boons

• England

• To Be Taken Up Again

• If I Ran the Show

• An Invariable Moon

• The Book of Life

• Epigram

• The Greatest Satisfaction

• On the Good Ship Lollipop

• In the Second Half of the Chapter

• No Fun at All

• My Former Agent

• Glossolalia

• Our Mozart

• Some Things You Might Not Know

• Where We Never Left Off

• As If They Were My Own

• Williams and All

• What We Were Left With

• Among the Nettles

• Eager in the Wing

• Bacchanal

• Poor Pindar

• My Friend Freda

• Walt Whitman

• Midway Through the Final Act

• Surrey, Sidney and Wyatt

• Before the Gunrest

• Fricka or Hera in One of Her Rages

• Wotan or Zeus in One of His

• The Answerer

• Abecedarian

• Stirring the Ashes

• Where the Fun Is

• The Channeled Way

• In the Bastille

• It's the Baron!

• The Sage Reasons with Himself

• In the Temple

• The Poem of the World

• My Father's Name

• The Shadow and the Penumbra

• Edicts

• Poem for Bob Dylan

• If Something's Missing

• Quotidian

• Watching Rover

• The Abandoned Shell

• Meaner Mirrors

• Into Their Pits

• Waiting for Wings

• Coffee or Tea

• The Crucial Point

• Webbed Feet

• The Cicada and the Phong

• Horse Hoofs

• The Middle Kingdom

• Kindermärchen

• The Way People Are

• Rolled and Unrolled

• The Naming of Cats

• Nietzsche Transcription

• Before Breaking the Bread

Baron, All Too Baron [2003]

• [Epigraph]

• Dedication

• History As a Moveable Bead on a Timeline

• History as a Spore

• The Myth of the Final Face

• The Big Squint

• The Whiteness of Bone

• Trinkets and Runnels

• Etude of Immanence

• From Ibiza to the Norfolk Broads

• The Republic of a Thousand Years

• The Pretzel

• The Prince, the Visitor, and the Tenth Orderly

• A Picture of the Younger Laroon

• Chronicling the Tyranny of Pooh

• What Beckmesser Said to the Prospective Sharer

• The Lost Theatre of Quiverbow of Nova 

• The Charter of the Realm

• It Must Be Taught

• Allegro Joculoso

• G-Day in the Americas

• The Central Dais

• The Case Against the Rightful Heir

• At the Grand Hotel

• This Walled Aporia

• Monadology IV

• The Glowing Hook

• The Solar Year

• In Murky Flats

• Into the Breach

• The Lettered Melee

• The Millenarian Abecedarian

• The Next Man on the Dump 

• Heading down the Hill from Northhead, Through the Lair and the Row to the Vale

• The Third Nature

• 3 Limericks

• My Nativity

• The Germinatrix

• Aboard the S. S. Giapetto

• One That Would Consent to Be Told

• O reine Übersteigung!

• Art's a Blast!

• Everyman's Spring

• The Buzzing of the Bee

• The Lost Fragments of Hippo and Melissus

• In the Kingdom of Montaigne

• Prelude in A Minor

• The Bildungsroman of the Roaming Baron

• The Wanderer of the Earth

• To Want to Want or Not to Want to Want

• Schoenberg's Second String Quartet

• As They Scuff Their Shoes 

• Foucault Transcription

• Writing Regina's Sestina

• Gooing Up My Teas

• In the Year of the Expanding Man (a Little Poem for Steely Dan)

• The World's Second Funniest Joke

• The Fifth Marx

• The Marks That Matter Most (or, Searching for That High Peak in Darien)

• Intervention: It Matters Little Who You Are

• History As a Life to the Given Life

• Kilroy Was Here

• A Dozen Pose Proems

• Steeplechase: Notes on John Ashbery's Clepsydra (with Help from Lacan)

• Exodus 31:19–27

• The Dream of the Grand Assumption

• The Era of Common Fun

• A Twice-Told Tale (or, What God Decided Not to Impart to Moses)

• Underway

• Wallace Stevens

• Blooming and Withering

• Making the Poem

• A Lehúsa Be (A Page from the Library of Borges)
  
  

Molly’s Song (and Other Poems) [2003]

• [Dedication]

• Brothers' Drinking Song

• What the Owl of Death Said to Sleep and to Peace in the Sarcophagus

• Broken Radio

• Molly's Song

• The Window and the Faces in the Rain

• Silk Road

• Three Poems Plus One

• Suddenly

• Two Ridiculous Poems

• Asshole

• June 28, 1914

• Seven Progressively Better Poems

• Two Poems for Voo

• High in May

• You and I, By and By

• Somewhere Along That Long and Winding Road

• Angie in the Rain

• What Schiller Really Said (or, Two Misanthropic Maxims)

• Ivy

• Sloppy Joe in America and Out

• Tales of Yo

• Singapore

• Belling a Happy Apogee at the Well of Unsold Melody

• Getting in Tune (or, It Must Double Over): An Afterword in Verse

Chronicling the Era of Common Fun [2004]

• [Title, Dedication, and Epigraphs]

• Out of the Darkness

• What Was Best for Them

• The Fact of the Breach

• The Lesser Accord

• A Confusion Beyond Sound

• The Song of Menahmen, Man of Men

• The Manuscripts and the Reservoir

• The Real and the True

• The Unmade

• One Venue, One Accord

• Of Those Who Went Over and of Those Who Held Out

• Neither Entirely Old nor Entirely New

• Finders Keepers

• In the Margins and the Corners

• The Sole Remaining Tenants

• The Shadows of the Greater Men

Coda: An Invisible and Indivisible Remainder

• The Lines Are Not the Same

• If It Weren't for the Beasts

• Rolling Our Way

The Stage with No True North [2004]

• [Title and Dedication]

• [Cast of Characters]

• Act One

• Act Two

• Act Three

• Act Four

• Act Five

Reading Adorno [2004]

Opus Seven: Two Small Books in the Major and Minor Modes [2007]

• Preface: Flaschenpost

Book I: Crawling Calliope: Poems in the Major Mode [Epigraph]

• Ten Weeks (or, Nineteen Persons Caught Within a Net on the Crystal Soup)

• Rock of Ages (three American sestinas)

• Kerouac Transcriptions

• Neal Cassady

• Locomotive Breath

• A Subjacent Hideaway (or, An Inquiry Concerning Books and Lives)

• Tiger's Leap

• Five Theses (or, Framing Concepts with the Sample)

• Temperament

Book II: Lady Fingers (Poems in the Minor Mode) [Epigraph]

• Getting There

• Legal Tinder

• Fleeing Bethlehem

• Nothing Was Spoken

• Aesop's Lament (or, The Proverbial Brim)

• Poor Pindar, Again (or, The Face I Got)

• Robert Hunter

• The Passionate Repeats

• Somewhere down the Road

• The Future Is Fine (Theme and Interpellations)

• Judy's Jungle

• Spring City, PA

• The Strategist of a Secret (or, Alcibiades - Lad of Athens)

Appendix: Additional Poems from 2003–2006

• Pierre Bezallion

• Three Verse Essays

• The Poem at the Foxhole Inn

• Eight Rilkean Poems

  1. Stepping Out

  2. Your Restless Clang

  3. Lullaby (for Stella)

  4. Accordion

  5. Prayer in Autumn

  6. Up Close and from Afar

  7. The Great Turning

  8. My Likenesses

• Gong Xi Fa Cai (or, A New Year's Postcard from the Haasian Atoll)
  
  

The Emerald Gong (and Other Poems) [2016]

• The Next Few Pages

• Fiona and Her Extraordinary Machine

• Fallen Chessmen

• In a Poem

• The Bladder of Rhyme

• Taiwan Dzei Dzou ("Made in Taiwan")

• Book of Faces

• Brilliant Corners

• Go, Trane! (Or, Well, You Needn't)

• The Prince of Spots

• Ode to Texting

• The Doors (In Memoriam Ray Manzarek)

• The Tower of Song

• The Ascent of Man

• Teaching the Standards

• Ballad of the Furloughs

• Common Core, Common Snore

• Race to the Top (or, A Nation Still at Risk)

• Introducing Mr. Ed Deform

• Four Lyrical Renditions

• Love Song

• Prayer to Honolulu

• Sub specie aeternitatis (or, Quite Provisional)

• Our Buoyant Earth (or, Everyman's Sestina)

• The Ten Worlds of Nichiren Daishonen (or, Claiming Our Buddhahood)

• Beyond the Pales of the Hundredth Station (or, Ducking the Punches)

• Our Pleasure

• More Time (Litany on a Common Desire)

• My Twelve Houses

• The Basement Tapes

• Tropes

• Harmonia, Pythagoras, and the Blacksmiths of Samos

• Walk On!

• Inviolable

• The Final Words of Tsunesaburo Makiguchi

• Welcome to the Desert of the Real

• Vanity and Chrome

• From the Valley of Shifting Sands [in 102 cantos]

• The Emerald Gong

And Dragons in the Crease [ongoing]

• Human Minute

• The Appointment

• Equity (for Pasi Sahlberg)

• Tongue Gone Numb

• Fixed Fire (or, My Leonine Tao)

• Something Else (or, Our Samenesses)

• Some Sentences

• No Concession

• Conjecturing Post-Odyssey

• Our Spinning Feast

• To My Wife

• Frickin' Freight

• Kicking an Old Tin Can

• Some Things That Sleep Should Not Be Interrupted By

• Some More Things, Which Sleep Might (or Mightn't) Interrupt

• ; [semi-colon]

• Nobody Again but Me

• My Next Poem

• Pesky Tedia

• Poem for My Wife, in Anticipation of an Empty Nest

• The Palindromic Means and Ends of Sleep

• Indigo Traveler

• Sonnet: Not Everything in Life Will Come to Song

• The Barrel of Rhyme

• Wooden Drakes (or, Much Else As Well)

• Cerebrusphere (or, Haas contra Jagger)

• The Dark Star of Gilchrist Haas

• This World We're In

• Welcome Back! (or, The Grim Ascendancy of Orange Man)

• Century 21

1. That World of Green and Blue

2. Tabula Rasa

3. Orange Erection

4. The Ugliest American

5. Flush with Rage

6. Baby Hands

7. Alternative Facts

8. Asshole

9. Bowling Green Massacre

10. Douglass Speaks (or, Plucked Orangutan)

11. Shit-gibbon

12. In the Words of Colbert (or, Through Celluloid and Fake News)

13. Individual One

14. Fine Forms

15. Our Century 21

• Someday a Day

• Die, Stupid! (A Sestina for AOC)

• Hymn of the Perfect Aubade and Its Nocturnes

• The Weight, 2020

• Father's Day 2021

• Ontological Layman (or, Haǐ Yaò)

• Lips in the Time of Masking

• These Two Continua (or, Triumph and Rage)

• A Message from ChatGPT

• Stop Breaking Down

• To Haunt and Harrow (Wagner's Liebestod Melody)

• This Here Caboose

• The Cream

• (Not Quite an) Ode to the Non-Rhotic R

• Advice to young People

• Brother, You Are Not an Ism! (or, Crumpled Burger Bag)

• To Further Foment

• Ownmost (or, Tones of Grim and Woe)

• My Chopin

• Forked Lightning (Ten New Villanelles)

1. In Which Four Villanellians Meet in Heaven

2. Time and Rhyme

3. The Age of Prose

4. New Metaphors of Elemental Fire

5. Splendid Rock

6. The Dialectic of Surfeit and Need

7. Funessence, Square of Life

8. Furlongs Thick and Fathoms Deep

9. Accessing the Real (or, Dazzling Chrome)

10. The Universe Is God Enough for Me

• And Dragons in the Crease

• More from the Valley of Shifting Sands

1. Never Less than One More Page

2. I'll Buy a Drone to Fly Inside My Head

3. Sarabande

4. Shadow Life (or, Like Fey Bo Peep)

5. The Song in My Head

6. Material

• Sestina of Myself

• This Is Not a Sonnet

• And Neither Is This (a Sonnet)

• Sonnet: Laurels and Bread

• Appendix: The Face and the Many Faces of Gong Li [a fragment]