Use trouble : poems / by Michael S. Harper.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- I. The Fret Cycle -- Fret (A Tune Near Composition in the Studio) -- A Note from Cathy at Yaddo -- The Lesson for Paul on Catherine Clarke's Birthday -- Fret in the Woods -- Table Notice -- Fret Skips Town for a Gig in New London -- Fret Deep in the Woods -- Fret Leaves Yaddo -- Ghost of Fret at High Table: Mansion -- Fret's News from the Front: Yaddo After -- Martini Glasses Galore -- Fret Shows Up at the Metropolitan -- The List: Yaddo -- Fret Leaves Yaddo in Disguise -- Fret Having Survived Modernity

Fret Discovers the Blues, AgainAss -- Fret in Studio with the Ancestors -- Fret Find the Instrument of Archipelago -- Mt. Pleasant Local Library -- Fret Finds the Open Field -- II. Use Trouble -- A Photographic Guide to the City -- Use Trouble -- Portrait: (Jay Saunders Redding at Sayles Hall) 5/26/97 -- Esther -- Triumphs -- Homage to Jay Saunders Redding on His Natal Day: 10 13 04 -- Praisesong for BB -- Goodbye to All That -- Public Letter: Visible Ink -- Dubonnet -- Archives: The Public Library I -- Archives: The Public Library II

Legend of Jeannie TurnerTCAT Serenade -- Sherley Anne Williams: 1944-1999 -- Chloe: Black Pastoral Luminous -- Handmade Book on the Theme of the Beloved -- Pigeon -- Artist on a Cellphone (Yaddo) -- Vote (Providence) -- Marilyn -- Tattoo -- Copenhagen -- Notes on Our Resident Humanist: Mahler B. Ryder, 1937-1992 -- Ostseebad Ahrenshoop -- Ribs -- Charlotte and Nathan Exchange: 50th Anniversary -- Charlotte to Nathan -- Notes on the Hopi -- Critical Mass -- Hemingway's Iceberg -- Saint Dolores (Phillips Exeter Academy)

Days Remaining/Bloom's Day, DublinFreud: Lessons on Boundaries -- George J. Makari Blues -- Songbirds (Habitat) -- Ponta de Areia [Brazil] -- Tagore (Nobel, 1913) -- On Brodsky's Collected -- Three Poems: October 17, 2004 -- I. Archival Secrets of Mary Lincoln -- II. At the Square -- III. The Secret Lore of Will's Presidency -- Zen: The Trainride Home to the Welcome Table -- The Flight Home -- Tatum -- Baseball (Orb) -- Josh Gibson (Master of National Past) -- Blackjack -- Look Backwards: Henry Aaron's Hammer

A Centenary Ode to EKE: The Duke of EllingtonRay Charles Robinson Dead at 73 -- Womb of Space (Yaddo) -- What I Know This Very Day -- Along Came Betty -- Repeat Button -- Digesting Dexter Gordon at 80 -- Goodbye Pork Pie Hat -- Photo: Letter (Joel Chandler Harris) -- Ernesto Victor Antonucci -- 'Craft'Talk, Vermont Studio Center -- Elder -- On the Theme of Self-Knowledge and Education In Society Though Not Defined by Falsehoods -- Joseph Santos Ileto -- The Broke and the Unbroken -- Jacuzzi Serenade -- On Arrival -- Christine Frey's Resurrection

"For decades, Michael S. Harper has written poetry that speaks with many voices. His work teems with poetry configured as awe, poetry as courtship, and poetry as elegy and homage. Infused with tales and riddles, sass and satire and surprise, Harper's poetry takes the form of psalms, jazz experiments, soft serenades, and radical provocations." "In Use Trouble, his first major collection since Songlines in Michaeltree, Harper renews poetry as the art of taking nothing for granted. In three groups - "The Fret Cycle," "Use Trouble," and "I Do Believe in People"--He draws on his seemingly inexhaustible resources to paint, sing, sympathize, and sorrow. Here are his tributes to his father and family, his irrepressible playfulness, and his lifelong romance between poetry and music."--Jacket.

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