Peter Filkins is the Richard B. Fisher Professor of Literature and Creative Writing at Bard College at Simon's Rock and a visiting professor of literature at Bard College. He is the author of four other books of poems: What She Knew, After Homer, Augustine's Vision, and The View We're Granted, as well as numerous translations and a biography, H. G. Adler: A Life in Many Worlds.
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Part I In Vivo Uterine Vellum Augustine's Vision Auden's Glasses The Hitler Bug Triptych Blood Moon Blues Facial Recognition Nobody's Road To the Coming Disaster Part II Aubade Little Problem Ashore Willow Rain Solstice Nadir Narcissi Credo Nocturne Part III Water Lilies Landscape Sun Through Snow Soundboard Happy Trails The Wild Boar Late Elegy for Seamus Heaney Annaghmakerrig Epiphany Poem Part IV Crows Augury False Cardinal Forecast Cockles Arrowhead The Toad The Bass Oracle Starlings For the Birds Turtle Part V Writings Moonlight Boldini's Catch Shell At Anchor O The Hours A Soft Day Making Hay Day In, Day Out Envoy Notes on the Poems Acknowledgments