Tourist in Hell
- Contents
- Review Quotes

Acknowledgments
One
History as Crescent Moon
Opening the Eyes
Wreck and rise above
The Gyre
Geopolitics
In a Time of War
In That Dawn
After the Tsunami
What It Hinges On
Thinking about Unamuno’s San Manuel Bueno, Mártir
Site Visit
Back Then, We Called It “The War”
The Show Must Go On
Magnificat
Two
Establishment
Winter Lambs
Rendition, with Flag
Postcard with Statue of Liberty, No Message
Cold Dawn of the Day When Bush Was Elected for a Second Term
The Raven’s Text
The meteor
High Noon
Saturday Night
Three
Voices from the Labyrinth
Minos
Ariadne
Daedalus
The Minotaur
Meditation on DNA with Gene Splices from Shakespeare’s Sonnets
An Ode to Asymmetry
To Think What We Might Have . . .
Four Flats, Getting Dark Soon, Nothing to Do but Walk
Like I really like that
Encounter in the Local Pub
Four
What loves, takes away
Restored to Blue
Vermeer’s Girl, a Restoration
Trees, even at this distance
the palest flowers / ash, snow . . .
Larger to Those Who Stay
Welcome to the dollar bin
Meditation on Lines from Shakespeare’s Sonnet 73
Harmony Bowl
Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD)
Such Stuff as Dreams Are Made On
The Morning After
Of a Word
Headlong for That Fair Target
Mine eyes have seen the glory of . . .
Tracking
Notes
“This is a big, moving, and intellectually satisfying collection by one of our most humane, wise, and intelligent poets.”
“In Tourist in Hell, Wilner visits zones of torment and brutality—not because she relishes them, but because they open inexorably under her feet as she goes about the business of being human. An extraordinary volume, one that marks a new, compressed ferocity in Wilner’s project of poetic witness. It feels to me like a necessary book.”
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