Your Father on the Train of Ghosts

Table of Contents Automated Town 2 Advice to Passengers 3 Your New Birthday 4 The Baby Catalogues 5 From Which Mortar Cities Rise 6 The Anodynes 7 The Archaeologists 8 Anniversaries of Bad Things 9 The House Rhapsody 10 Elegy for the Manhattan Project 11 Trade Deficit 12 Your Lover, Later 13 Elemental Picture of Boats in the Distance 14 Elegy for the Most People 15 Space to the West 17 Outside the Elevator Museum 18 A Short History of Friendship 19 In the File of Discontinued Things 20 Gun Control in the Occupation 21 Cars Moving at Reasonable Speeds 23 Domestic Light 24 The City Experiment 26 Your Father on the Train of Ghosts 27 Daily Life in Classical Antiquity 29 All Trains Leaving Penn Station Are Ghost Trains 30 The Circus of Probable Sighs 31 The Bridge at Rest 33 Error as Beauty 34 University Park 35 Meditation on Subjects 36 Red Shift 37 The Frackville Angel 39 Landscape with Missing Elements 40 Busman's Holiday 41 The History of Entanglements 42 Elegy for Rosa Parks 43 The World Is Empty & a Splash of Salts 44 Candling the Bodies 45 Escape Strategies 46 The Great Migrations 47 Your Father at the Museum 48 The Sherpas of Canada 49 You Need Not Be Present To Win 51 At the Marina 52 And As They Waited in Their Baskets on the Hillsides It Began To Rain 53 My Father in Other Places 54 Movie Scene for Your Father on the Train of Ghosts 55 On the Performativity of Grief as Ecstatic Culture 56 Elegy for Henrietta Lacks 57 The Overgrown War 59 The Birthday Hand 60 External Sonata 61 Don't Wear Our Your Welcome 62 Winter Acknowledgments 63 The Solitary Death of the Woolworth Building 64 The Night Autopsy 66 Making Love in the Balloon Maze 67 In the Later Measures 69 The Vanishing Days 70 Scandinavian Skies 71 On Your Smooth Ride 72 Maybe It Has Nothing To Do With You 73 The Radio Inside Your Health Plan Is Sleeping 74 As Mastery Declines into Altitude & Forgiveness 75 Flight of the Demolition Factory 76 Aromatherapy in the Age of New Form 77 Steps to Remove Limitations 79 Everything You Know That Isn't True 80 Can't You Sit Still For Once 81 Different From What You Bargained For 82 The Names of the Planets, & Heavy Water 83 The Carnegie System 84 Box with Noise Elements 85 Halls of Fame II 86 After the War, the Orchards 87 How Are Things in Glocca Morra 88 Ideal Boating Conditions 89 You'll Get Nothing More from Me Today, She Said 90 Pharaoh's Daughter (Chagall Motion Study) 91 Autoreply: Nuncio 92 Unheimlich Diorama 94 Apology re: The Second Viennese School 95 Your Father Seen From Space 96 Trenton Aubade 97 The Red Matter 98 Ode to Lyndon Baines Johnson 99 Elegy for the Developing Story 101 Would You Like To Try One of Our Specials 102 Limited Time Offer 103 Cedar Rapids Eclogue 104 Another Day at the Festival 105 Ethel & Myrtle Try To Avoid How Emotional They Get 106 Cesarean Selection 107 Fall in Istanbul 109 On a Raft, Relaxing into the West, Where We Are 110 Production Still 112 Your Mutual Trappist 113 I'll Decorate My House with You 115 If I Die Before I Wake 116 Your Hands as the Third Law of Motion 117 The Other Palace 118 Stolen Crutch, Wrapped in Yarn 119 Your Reply Is Necessary 121 Because It's Better Not To Know 122 Your Costume Drama Is Falling 123 Changes in Your Flight Plan 124 Of Certain Small, Valuable Kitchen Appliances 127 Baptism of Signs 128 A False Sense of Well-Being 129 A Short History of Kiki Smith 130 Parable of the Door 131 Nullstellensatz 132 I've Been Hoping To Catch You at Home 133 The Little Crisis in Summer 134 The Monkey Cages in Winter 135 This Is the Part Where You Whistle 136 Love Is Everywhere 137 Thousand-Year Reign 138 One Hundred and One Best Worlds 139 Having a Sense of Purpose 140 Eskimo in the Sahara 141 Parable of the Anorak in the Rain 142 In Praise of Hard Candy 143 This Is a Wolf with Many Sharp Teeth 144 On Imperialism, Part II 145 Single-Celled Organism 146 Sonata of Excess 147 Praise Impromptu 148 On the Fall of Constantinople 149 The Tourist 150 Approaching Helpfulness 151 Portrait While You Wait 152 On Liberalism 153 The Dream of Egypt 154 On the Death of Andrew Wyeth 155 Pain Can Warn Us of Danger 156 Welcome to the Next Project 157 After Music 158