"Winner of the 2007 Colorado prize for poetry"--title page verso.
Contents
1. A new room -- Voice -- A thing defined -- Eye contact -- Brenda is in the room -- 2. the key to an unlocked door -- I am a poet -- A word -- The tower of London -- Nights -- For Charlie -- Four gardens -- I am a human man -- 3. A cure for childhood -- Only son -- The last minutes -- A cure for dead dogs -- One to another: a creation myth -- I am a father's son -- Ten movies and books -- 4. A history of light -- My embodiment -- Before the sea was molten -- Like a pebble in space is like a planet -- I am a woman's lover -- 5. Poem to read at my wedding.
