Trickster in New York is a collection of poems, including several sequences and longer narratives and treating a wide range of topics, such as the experience of almost plunging over a cliff into the Continental Divide; a suburban street as envisioned by 22 artists; two antithetical difficulties in buying French pastry; several animals trying to explain the strange characteristics that dominate their lives; God's thoughts just before creating the first man; the thoughts of the biblical Joshua on suddenly finding himself in a position of leadership; the passage from shock and horror to a haunted normality in the lives of New Yorkers in the aftermath of 9/11; two sad modern equivalents of Oedipus and Jocasta; a man whose marital history is bound up with his ambition to find the perfect house; what happens when the mythic trickster joins the police force to get some Chinese food; and the invasion of the Louvre by a horde of children.