The Past.

Cover
THE PAST
Title
Copyright
CONTENTS
Coming to America
PLEDGE
My Dissent and My Love Are Woven Inside Me
Looking at My Father
A Sound Not Unlike a Bell
Praxis
Writing Home
Names of the River
The Ecstasy of Time
Linear Travel
Five Chinese Verses
Interim Poetics
Pledge
Inventory for Spring
Resident Alien
Twenty-First Century Words
Reading the Canon
Looking Beneath the Sentence's Wing
1989
Looking Beneath the Sentence's Wing
1999
After Is Not Return
Description, Repetition
TIANANMEN SONNETS
THE PAST
A Poem on My Mother's Birthday
List of Forgivenesses
Poem About My Life
Wang Xin Tai Says Goodbye
Gū Dān
A Dream of Shandong
Elegy for Soft Things
Poem Beginning to Sound
Poem for Feeling's Sake
Poem for Chores
Breach Song
Why Write
Notes for an Opening
Annual Air
Acknowledgments
Notes
About the Author.