The Mystical Rose: Selected Poems

Cover; Description; Title Page; Contents; Introduction by ELLEN DORE WATSON; Acknowledgements; from BAGGAGE (1976); Dysrhythmia; Successive Deaths; Vigil; With Poetic Licence; Before Names; Lesson; Guide; Head; Two Ways; Praise for a Colour; Purple; Seductive Sadness Winks at Me; Window; Heart's Desire; The Girl with the Sensitive Nose; Seduction; At Customs; Easter; Love Song; Serenade; from THE HEADLONG HEART (1978); Concerted Effort; Not Even One Line in December; Day; A Man Inhabited a House; Lineage; A Good Cause; A Fast One; Absence of Poetry; Blossoms; Young Girl in Bed.

The Black UmbrellaPassion; Neighbourhood; Murmur; Dénouement; from LAND OF THE HOLY CROSS (1981); The Alphabet in the Park; Trottoir; Pieces for a Stained-Glass Window; Land of the Holy Cross; Falsetto; Some Other Names for Poetry; Tyrants; Love in the Ether; Consecration; Legend with the Word Map; Professional Mourner; Mobiles; from THE PELICAN (1987); Fibrillations; Lily-like; The Mystical Rose; The Sphinx; The Transfer of the Body; God Does Not Reject the Work of His Hands; Object of Affection; Responsory; Eternal Life; Sleeping Beauty; Heraldry; The Birth of the Poem.

Two O'Clock in the Afternoon in BrazilThe Dark of Night; Nigredo; The Good Shepherd; Divine Wrath; The Holy Face; The Battle; Ardent Memory; The Third Way; Sketchbook; Syllabication; Crazy Behaviour; Furious with Jonathan; The Sacrifice; The Pelican; Silly Girl; from KNIFE IN THE CHEST (1988); Biography of the Poet; The Meticulous One; Laetitia Cordis; History; Immolation; Opus Dei; In Portuguese; Parameter; Words and Names; The Tenacious Devil Who Doesn't Exist; Matter; Form; Lighter Than Air; Guess; One More Time; Letter; Note from the Daring Damsel; One Thing After Another; Marvels.

TrinityThe Last Supper; Pastorals; The Hermit's Apprentice; from ORACLES OF MAY (1999); The Poet Wearies; God's Assistant; Salve Regina; Buried Treasure; Staccato; Domus; A Good Death; Poem for a Girl Apprentice; On Love; Portunhol; Nap with Flowers; Mediation Verging on a Poem; Mural; Our Lady of Conception; Mater Dolorosa; Chamberpot; Invitational; Christ's Passion; Application for Adoption; Woman at Nightfall; Meditation of the King Among His Troops; Rebuke of Pride; October; Human Rights; Just Like a Man; Ex-Voto; Anamnesis; Holy Icon; Saint Christopher Transit; Spiritual Exercise.

The State of MayNeopelican; About the Author; Copyright.