Don Bogen is the author of five books of poems, including Luster and An Algebra, along with a critical book on Theodore Roethke and a translation of selected poems by the contemporary Spanish poet Julio Martínez Mesanza. He has collaborated with composers from the United States and abroad. Prizes for his work include a Discovery Award and The Writer/Emily Dickinson Award of the Poetry Society of America, and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Camargo Foundation. He has held Fulbright positions at the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry in Belfast and at the Universities of Santiago de Compostela and Vigo in Spain. Nathaniel Ropes Professor Emeritus at the University of Cincinnati, he serves as editor-at-large of the Cincinnati Review and divides his time between Cincinnati and Martinez, California.
Contents
I
On Hospitals
II
Return Song
Care Song
House
Mailbox
Smart Song
Lake Song
Desks
Flowers in a Vase
III
A Citizen
A Notebook
In the Rain
Street, Window
Our Mutual Friend
Dance XX Diamond Song
Promise Song
IV
After Some Years
Elegies
Archaeology of 1956
Window Song
Moving Song
Soft Song
The Ice Rink
V
Magpies
Sick Song
Maker's Song
For the Makers
Mesoamerican Song
The Architects
June Song
Immediate Song
Acknowledgments
