This collection of poetry faithfully moves from the private to the publ ic, from individual experience to civic responsibility through an elegy for the 1960s and the world that has become our own. The meditative analysis is expanded, from introspection to the troubled psyche of Vietnam-age America. In poems like "La Pastorela" there is an overlay of classical and popular echoes, heightening personal reminiscences.
Acknowledgments A Childhood Around 1950 The Cusp Dreams of Sacrifice Paint It Black Listening to Leonard Cohen Altamont After the Election, 1984 Speakers from the Ice Limit of Volume La Pastorela Mansard Dreams Motel 6, Davis Why Are We Happier? The Lighthouse Linda Does My Horoscope Return to Boston In Paradiso, speriamo bene Montale: Times at Bellosguardo Montale: Ti libero la fronte Puccini Dying The Canto of Hope (Paradiso XXV, 1-9) Ikkyu Almost at the Horizon The Wall of June Caitlin: A Biography Dinosaurs After "Death of a Porn Queen": Traveling the Great Basin Red Cloud Notes
