Title: Other people's troubles /
Authors: Sommer, Jason
Publisher: University of Chicago Press,
Year: 1997
Abstract: In Aubade, a poem on a traffic-light relationship between two motorists, he writes, "They met at every light and sign / for several miles, / stopping side by side. / They laughed and shook / their heads in wonder / at themselves or simply looked / one turning then the other."
Contents: Last in before Dark -- Meyer Tsits and the Children -- Luck -- The Property of the World -- Joining the Story -- Lifting the Stone -- Not When You Call Them Do the Pictures Come -- Adam's Call -- Adam Naming Himself -- Amnesia -- Other People's Troubles -- Mengele Shitting -- Islanded with Children -- The Find -- In the Rush Hour -- Aubade -- The Wound -- For Whoever Reads My Book in Solitude -- Horizon with Sun.