Independent People

Introduction by Brad Leithauser xi Book One PART I ICELANDIC PIONEER Kolumkilli The Holding The Wedding Drifting Clouds Secrets Dreams Nerves Dry Weather A Day In The Woods Shepherds' Meet September Night Medical Opinion The Poetess Farewells Search Ballad Poetry Homecoming Rauthsmyri Life Errands Bearers Drifting Snow Fire of Frost PART II FREE OF DEBT Winter Morning Day Evening Literature The Sea-Cow Gentry Of Song Of The World The Tyranny of Mankind Great Events The Visitor Building One Flower The Battle Death In the Spring Book Two PART I HARD TIMES On the Paving Rats The Left Cheek Conversation With Higher Powers To Walk Of the Soul Justice The Right Cheek O Pure Optimi Better Times Poetry God Wishing-Time The Inevitable When One Has a Flower Spring Days The Big Sister The Boy and the Countries Madam of Myri Suffers Defeat PART II YEARS OF PROSPERITY When Ferdinand Was Shot Matters of Faith Admission Tickets Grim on Guard Re the Land of Dreams America Politics The Racehorse Modern Poetry When a Man is Unmarried Interest Trolls in Autumn Ideals Fulfilled Dogs, Souls, etc. PART III CONCLUSION Other People's Breed The Czar Fallen Blood in the Grass