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Book Synopsis"Between the discovery that there is a design which only his poetry enables him to find as he confronts the world and the discovery that such a design is a snare, merely a means of keeping him from further discernment, Michael Rosen is wedged, is productively pinioned, [ should say, for it is just this pressure--of meaning discerned on one hand and
Table of Contents*FrontMatter, pg. i*ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, pg. v*CONTENTS, pg. vi*Pony Penning Day, pg. 3*The Cutting of Nijinsky's Feet, pg. 5*Ice Sculptures, pg. 6*The Woman in Ice, pg. 8*Roadside Statuary, pg. 9*In Central Park, pg. 11*Spectacles: A Late Spring, pg. 13*At Brunch We Entertain the Notion of the Perfect Place to Live, pg. 15*Outside a Milton Avery Exhibit, pg. 16*Total Eclipse, pg. 19*Next, pg. 20*Another Figurescape, pg. 21*"Blind Minotaur Guided by a Little Girl in the Night", pg. 22*Artist's Proof, pg. 24*Primitive Examples, pg. 26*Hidden Pictures, pg. 31*What's Wrong With This Picture?, pg. 34*Story Problem, pg. 36*July, pg. 37*Precipitation, pg. 38*November, pg. 39*The Same River Twice, pg. 40*Calling Into Question, pg. 42*November, Again, pg. 43*Freeway Flowers, pg. 44*December, The Botanical Gardens, pg. 46*Our Places at the Table, pg. 49*The Age When Parents Don't Need Reasons, pg. 50*Vivarium, pg. 51*Circling Columbus, pg. 53*A Family Tree, pg. 54*Notes Through the Winter, pg. 55*The Fire Pond, pg. 57*In Exchange for Wood, pg. 59*Driving Past Morocco, Indiana, pg. 62*Strand, pg. 64*PRINCETON SERIES OF CONTEMPORARY POETS, pg. 66
