Introduction: "Upward into the Depths" (2001)
by Robert Bly ix
Introduction to the Expanded Edition (2017)
by Robert Bly xxiii
1. Poems From
17 Poems (1954)
Secrets on the Road (1958)
The Half-Finished Heaven (1962)
Evening-Morning 5
Storm 6
Sailor's Tale 7
The Man Awakened by a Song above His Roof 8
Track 9
Kyrie 10
After the Attack 11
Balakirev's Dream (1905) 12
Prison 14
The Couple 16
C Major 17
Allegro 18
Lamento 19
The Tree and the Sky 20
A Winter Night 21
Dark Shape Swimming 22
The Half-Finished Heaven 23
Nocturne 24
2. Poems From
Resonance and Footprints (1966)
Night Vision (1970)
Airmail: The Letters of Robert Ely and Tomas Tranströmer (2013)
Open and Closed Space 27
Lisbon 28
From an African Diary (1963) 29
Morning Bird Songs 30
Summer Grass 32
About History 33
After a Death 35
Under Pressure 36
Slow Music 37
Out in the Open 38
Solitude 40
Breathing Space July 42
The Open Window 43
Preludes 44
The Bookcase 46
Outskirts 47
Going with the Current 48
Traffic 50
Night Duty 52
A Few Moments 53
The Name 54
Standing Up 55
Conflict 56
Walking Running Crawling 57
3. Poems From
Pathways (1973)
Truth Barriers (1978)
Elegy 61
The Scattered Congregation 62
To Friends behind a Border 63
Snow-Melting Time, '66 64
Sketch in October 65
Further In 66
Late May 67
December Evening, '72 68
Seeing through the Ground 69
Guard Duty 70
Along the Lines (Far North) 72
At Funchal (Island of Madeira) 74
Calling Home 75
Citoyens 76
For Mats and Laila 77
After a Long Dry Spell 79
A Place in the Woods 80
Street Crossing 81
Below Freezing 82
Montenegro 83
Boat, Town 84
Start of a Late Autumn Novel 85
From the Winter of 1947 86
The Clearing 87
Schubertiana 88
The Gallery 91
4. Poems From
The Wild Market Square (1983)
For the Living and the Dead (1989)
Grief Gondola (1996)
The Great Conundrum (2004)
From March '79 99
Fire Script 100
Black Postcards 101
Romanesque Arches 102
The Forgotten Commander 103
Vermeer 105
The Cuckoo 107
The Kingdom of Uncertainty 108
Three Stanzas 109
Two Cities 110
Island Life, 1860 111
April and Silence 112
Landscape with Suns 113
Midwinter 114
Grief Gondola #2 115
Haiku 118