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This collection leaps into the dangerous currents where poetry and reli-gion meet, and enlivens the lexicon of traditional American Christian belief by testing its doctrines and language against contemporary experience. "Beyond the wonderful music of his lines . . . , what makes To the Green Man such an important and memor-able book is its enactment of a spiritual struggle to be at once at home in the world and astonished by it."-Alan Shapiro Mark Jarman is a professor of English at Vanderbilt University in Nashville. His book The Black Riviera won the Poets' Prize, and Questions for Ecclesiastes was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and won the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize.

To the green man	p. 3
Testimony of a roasted chicken	p. 4
Butterflies under persimmon	p. 5
Astragaloi	p. 8
Old acquaintance	p. 9
Fox night	p. 10
As close as breathing	p. 12
Shyness of the muse in an almond orchard	p. 14
In the tube	p. 16
In church with Hart Crane	p. 18
Dialect	p. 21
Outside	p. 23
The heavenly ladder of John Klimax	p. 24
Canzone	p. 26
George Herbert	p. 30
Goya's Saint Peter repentant	p. 31
The excitement	p. 33
Lord Chemistry	p. 40
Five psalms	p. 42
Canticle	p. 48
Song of Roland	p. 50
Over the river and through the woods	p. 52
The reckless father	p. 53
On learning of a child's memory	p. 55
The wind	p. 58
The secret ocean	p. 61
Summer	p. 64
Kuan Yin	p. 65
Coyotes	p. 67
A pair of tanagers	p. 68
Visitors	p. 70
Prayer for our daughters	p. 74
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To the Green Man

To the Green Man

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