Presents a volume of more than fifty new poems accompanied by a generous gathering from the author's collections of the past decade, lending insight into his overall poetic achievements and his use of playful, ironic, and melodic language.

from(2002) -- from (2005) -- from (2008) -- from (2011) -- New poems. Reader -- From Nine Horses (2002) -- The Country -- Velocity -- "More Than A Woman" -- Aimless Love -- Absence -- Royal Aristocrat -- Paris -- Istanbul -- Love -- Obituaries -- Today -- Creatures -- Tipping Point -- Nine Horses -- Litany -- The Literary Life -- Writing in the Afterlife -- No Time -- Elk River Falls -- Christmas Sparrow -- Surprise -- Poetry -- From The Trouble With Poetry (2005) -- Monday -- Statues in the Park -- House -- The Long Day -- In The Evening -- Flock -- Building with Its Face Blown Off -- The Lanyard -- Boy Shooting at a Statue -- Genius -- The Order of the Day -- The Centrifuge -- The Revenant -- Carry -- Fool Me Good -- The Trouble with Poetry -- From Ballistics (2008) -- Brightly Colored Boats Upturned on the Banks of the Charles -- Searching -- High -- The Four-Moon Planet -- No Things -- The First Night -- January in Paris -- Ballistics -- Pornography -- Greek and Roman Statuary -- Scenes of Hell -- Hippos on Holiday -- Lost -- Tension -- The Golden Years -- (detail) -- Adage -- The Flight of Statues -- Baby Listening -- Bathtub Families -- The Fishe -- A Dog on His Master -- The Great American Poem -- Divorce -- This Little Piggy Went to Market -- Old Man Eating Alone in a Chinese Restaurant -- Oh, My God! -- The Future -- Envoy -- From Horoscopes for the Dead (2011) -- Grave -- Palermo -- Memento Mori -- The Guest -- Gold -- Genesis -- Horoscopes for the Dead -- Hell -- A Question About Birds -- Watercoloring -- Poem on the Three Hundredth Anniversary of the Trinity School -- The Chairs That No One Sits In -- Memorizing "The Sun Rising" by John Donne -- My Unborn Children -- Hangover -- Table Talk -- Delivery -- What She Said -- Drawing You From Memory -- Cemetery Ride -- Lakeside -- My Hero -- Poetry Workshop Held in a Former Cigar Factory in Key West -- Returning the Pencil to Its Tray -- New Poems -- The Sandhill Cranes of Nebraska -- Foundling -- Catholicism -- Carrara -- Report from the Subtropics -- Lesson for the Day -- Promenade -- The Unfortunate Traveler -- Drinking Alone -- To My Favorite 17-Year-Old High School Girl -- Animal Behavior -- Lincoln -- Note to Antonin Dvorak -- Sunday Walk -- The Suggestion Box -- Cheerios -- Quandry -- Elusive -- Looking for a Friend in a Crowd of Arriving Passengers: A Sonnet -- Digging -- Central Park -- Osprey -- Here and There -- Villanelle -- Lines Written at Flying Point Beach -- Lines Written in a Garden by a Cottage in Herefordshire -- American Airlines #371 -- Keats: or How I Got My Negative Capability Back -- The Music of the Spheres -- Orient -- Heraclitus on Vacation -- Ode to a Desk Lamp -- Irish Poetry -- After the Funeral -- Best Fall -- France -- All Eyes -- Rome in June -- The Deep -- Biographical Notes in an Anthology of Haiku -- Florida in December -- Dining Alone -- Lucky Bastards -- "I Love You" -- Unholy Sonnet #1 -- If This Were a Job I'd Be Fired -- Friends in the Dark -- Flying Over West Texas at Christmas -- Last Meal -- A Word About Transitions -- The Names -- Acknowledgements.