Acknowledgements Abbreviations and References Introduction from FIGHTING TERMS (1954) The Wound Carnal Knowledge Lerici Tamer and Hawk Incident on a Journey from THE SENSE OF MOVEMENT (1957) On the Move At the Back of the North Wind Autumn Chapter in a Novel The Silver Age Elvis Presley The Allegory of the Wolf Boy Jesus and his Mother To Yvor Winters, 1955 Vox Humana from MY SAD CAPTAINS (1961) In Santa Maria del Popolo Innocence Modes of Pleasure ('New face, strange face, for my unrest') The Byrnies Claus von Stauffenberg Flying Above California Considering the Snail The Feel of Hands My Sad Captains UNCOLLECTED (1960s) From an Asian Tent from POSITIVES (1965) The Old Woman from TOUCH (1967) The Goddess Touch Misanthropos The Last Man Memoirs of the World Elegy on the Dust The First Man Pierce Street from MOLY (1971) Rites of Passage Moly For Signs Three From the Wave Street Song Grasses The Discovery of the Pacific Sunlight from JACK STRAW'S CASTLE (1976) Diagrams Iron Landscapes (and the Statue of Liberty) Last Days at Teddington Jack Straw's Castle An Amorous Debate Autobiography Yoko from THE PASSAGES OF JOY (1982) Expression Sweet Things June San Francisco Streets Transients and Residents Falstaff Crystal Crosswords Interruption Talbot Road Night Taxi from THE MAN WITH NIGHT SWEATS (1992) The Hug The Differences Skateboard To Isherwood Dying The Stealer Nasturtium The Man with Night Sweats Lament Terminal Her Pet The J Car The Missing from BOSS CUPID (2000) Duncan My Mother's Pride The Gas-poker To Donald Davie in Heaven The Artist as an Old Man A Wood near Athens Dancing David God Bathsheba Abishag Notes Index of Titles and First Lines.