The poems of Kevin Hart have nurtured international poetry audiences for nearly four decades. Translations of Hart's work have appeared in Chinese, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, and Vietnamese, among other languages, and bear witness to the growing interest in Hart's poetry both in the United States and abroad. This volume performs a valuable service by bringing together the best of Hart's work from seven published collections, some of them now out of print, and from his forthcoming book, Barefoot. Wild Track reveals a poet capable of articulating genuine feeling and considerable philosophical depth. This volume confirms Hart's standing as one of the most sophisticated poets writing today.

Kevin Hart teaches at the University of Virginia. His most recent collection of poems is Morning Knowledge (University of Notre Dame Press, 2011). His books have won many awards.

Acknowledgments

• The Stone's Prayer
• The Twenty-First Century
• The Horizon
• Prague, 1968
• The Day Shift: Ford Works, London
• Three Prayers
• The Ten Thousand Things
• This Day
• Midwinter Summer
• Your Shadow
• For Marion, My Sister
• The Hammer
• Sunlight in a Room
• The Members of the Orchestra
• Your Shadow
• Come Back
• Your Shadow's Songs
• Summers
• The Companion
• The Last Day
• Poem to the Sun
• Gypsophila
• Gacela
• Approaching Sleep
• The Ship
• That Bad Summer
• Haranguing Death
• Facing the Pacific at Night
• The Map
• "This Stone Is Thinking of Vienna"
• "The Present King of France Is Bald"
• The Letter
• Peniel
• Making a Rat
• The Historian of Silence
• The Black Telephone
• The Gift
• Her Name
• No Easy Thing
• The Great Explorers
• The Letter
• The Room
• The Book
• Dark Angel
• Thinking of David Campbell
• The Fragrance of Summer Grass
• Brisbane
• The Voice of Brisbane
• My Mother's Brisbane
• Those White, Ancient Birds
• The River
• The Calm
• Rain
• The Word
• Beneath the Ode
• Wimmera Songs
• Nights
• Nineteen Songs
• "How Hast Thou Counselled Him . . ."
• The Bird Is Close
• The Little Air
• Prayer
• My Name
• That Life
• Snow
• Yes
• Nights
• Amo Te Solo
• Here
• The Past
• Night Music
• A Tree
• The Mouse
• Summer
• Birdsong
• Colloquies
• Next Year
• No Guide
• March
• Prayer
• Afternoon
• Dark Bird
• With You
• The Museum of Shadows
• Nights
• Morning Knowledge
• Eurydice
• Descartes
• Dominique
• Fall
• Lullaby
• Hell Songs
• Late Questions in Winter
• Winter
• Father
• Father
• Grief
• Apart
• My Daughters
• Tarrawarra
• Your Kiss
• Sugar