Table of Contents

List of Plates Introduction to the Series Introduction: Exit from Lyric Isolation A Puppet Show: Context of a Puppet Show Related Poems, Light Staggered in the Window, He Showed Up at a Well-Ordered Ball, At Round Tables, Everybody was Screaming, You Will Dress Me in Silver, At that Hour When Narcissuses are Getting Drunk, Travelling Show The King on the Square Context of the King on the Square: Her Coming, Of Love, Poetry and Government Service The Unknown Woman: Context of the Unknown Woman: Related Poems The Stranger, There, in the Hard, Howling Frost of the Night, Star-Strewn Train, Your Face is Paler than it was, There Ladies Flaunt Fashions

About the Author

Timothy C. Wesphalen graduated magna cum laude from Knox College, and went on to earn an MA and a Ph.D. in Slavic Languages and literatures from Harvard University. He has published in leading academic journals and has received awards for excellence in teaching. Professor Westphalen is currently an Associate Professor at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.