Erosion

Jorie Graham grew up in Italy and now lives in northern California.She has received grants from the Ingram-Merrill Foundation, the Bunting Institute, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.Her first book, Hybrids of Plants and of Ghosts (Princeton, 1980), won the Great Lakes Colleges Association Award as the best first book of poems published in 1980.

• *FrontMatter, pg. i*CONTENTS, pg. v*ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, pg. ix*San Sepolcro, pg. 1*Mist, pg. 4*Reading Plato, pg. 6*Scirocco, pg. 8*In What Manner the Body is United with the Soule, pg. 12*The Age of Reason, pg. 16*At the Exhumed Body of Santa Chiara, Assisi, pg. 21*On Form for Berryman, pg. 22*At the Long Island Jewish Geriatric Home, pg. 24*To a Friend Going Blind, pg. 27*Tragedy, pg. 28*Wanting a Child, pg. 29*My Garden, My Daylight, pg. 30*Still Life with Window and Fish, pg. 32*I Watched a Snake, pg. 34*Mother of Vinegar, pg. 36*The Lady and the Unicorn and Other Tapestries, pg. 37*Kimono, pg. 38*Salmon, pg. 40*Patience, pg. 42*Making a Living, pg. 46*The Daffodil, pg. 48*For John Keats, pg. 50*Wood Wasps in the Spanish Willow, pg. 52*Erosion, pg. 56*Love, pg. 58*Two Paintings by Gustav Klimt, pg. 61*History, pg. 64*Masaccio's Expulsion, pg. 66*Updraft, pg. 71*Of Unevenness, pg. 72*At Luca Signorelli's Resurrection of the Body, pg. 74*The Sense of an Ending, pg. 78

"The attempt to find all the stops, to range through the gamut of possibility, makes Ms. Graham a poet of landscape and memory as well as a poet of art."--The New York Times Book Review