The collected poems of Weldon Kees

Statement with rhymes

Two cities

The speakers

Corsage

The inquiry

The situation clarified

Variations on a theme by Joyce

Praise to the mind

What the spider heard

White collar ballad

For my daughter

The scene of the crime

For H.V. (1901-1927)

June 1940

After the trial

The party

A cornucopia for daily use

Resort

The caterpillar and the men from Cambridge

On a painting by Rousseau

Aunt Elizabeth

Early winter

To the north

Scream as you leave

When the lease is up

Henry James at Newport

Stale weather

Midnight

Obituary

Fugue

Insectae Borinquenses

he forests

The view of the castle

To a contemporary

Homage to Arthur Waley

The city as hero

Lines for an album

The smiles of the bathers

The fall of the magicians

Eight variations

The conversation in the drawing room

The contours of fixation

Moving target

The Patient is rallying

Report of the meeting

Robinson

The Ambassadors

Dynamite for operas

Sestina: travel notes

Five villanelles

A Brief introduction to the history of culture

Poem instead of a letter

That winter

Abstracts of dissertations

Girl at midnight

Crime club

Xantha street

A good chord on a bad piano

River song

The heat in the room

The bell from Europe

The Doctor will return

Year's end

Death under glass

Routes to headquarters

Poems 1947-1954

The hourglass

The lives

The testimony of James Apthorp

Round

Turtle

A pastiche for Eve

Return of the ghost

1926

The upstairs room

Guide to the symphony

Land's end

Saratoga ending

Dog

Testimonies

Travels in North America

La Vita Nuova

Back

Dead march

The locusts, the plaza, the room

Weather for Pilgrims

Interregnum

Problems of a Journalist

A late history

Aspects of Robinson

The clinic

Speeches and lyric for a play

The beach in August

Robinson at home

A distance from the sea

A salvo for Hans Hofmann

The darkness

The coming of the plague

The furies

Wet Thursday

Equinox

Relating to Robinson

January

Farrago

The base

Colloquy

The umbrella

Small prayer

To build a quiet city in His mind

To a noisy contemporary

The older programs that We falsified

Place of execution

That figure with the moulting beard

The bunyip

First anniversary

Covering two years

A nameless place

The exposed reef

Rites for winter

If this room is our world

The end of the library

Late evening song

A musician's wife

The cats.