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| Preface | |
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| Greetings from the Commonwealth! | |
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| "Pennsylvania" | |
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| "The Map" | |
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| "Coming East from Cleveland to Philadelphia at Harvest" | |
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| "Route 81" | |
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| "Me'n Bruce Springsteen Take My Baby Off to College" | |
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| Beginnings: Philadelphia, "Dutch" Country, and Their Environs | |
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| "Philly Things" | |
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| "Colors" | |
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| "Rowers on the Schuylkill" | |
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| "Listening for Bridge Builders" | |
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| "Crazy Mary Rides the El" | |
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| "Spiritual Exercise, Kensington, Philadelphia" | |
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| "If You Are Reading This" | |
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| "Preliminary Sketches: Philadelphia" | |
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| "Our Lady of the Cabbages" | |
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| "10 PM at a Philadelphia Recreation Center" | |
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| "The Star Show" | |
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| "A Poem for a Black Boy" | |
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| "Chester County Winter Day" | |
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| "Spiritual Morning" | |
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| "A Hill in Pennsylvania" | |
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| "In the Small World" | |
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| "Mennonites" | |
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| "Mennonite Farm Wife" | |
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| "Female Ancestor" | |
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| "Buggy Ride at Sixteen" | |
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| "Papaya: Lancaster County" | |
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| "Back with the Quakers" | |
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| "Before the Silver Chord Is Loosed" | |
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| "In Carpenter's Woods" | |
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| "Halfway" | |
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| "Potter's Field, Germantown" | |
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| "Wallace Stevens House Prayer" | |
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| "Shillington" | |
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| "Route 222: Reading to Kutztown" | |
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| "The Idea of the Ordinary" | |
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| Circling East: Mines, Mountains, and Mills | |
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| "Ode to Coal" | |
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| "Coalscape" | |
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| "Coal Crackers" | |
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| "Burning Mountain" | |
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| "Christ Comes to Centralia" | |
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| "Centralia (October 31, 1986)" | |
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| "This Is Not My Cousin" | |
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| "What They Wanted Us to Bring Back" | |
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| "Family Portrait, 1933" | |
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| "Working the Face" | |
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| "Coal Train" | |
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| "The Miner's Wife Leaves Home" | |
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| "So the Coal Was Gone" | |
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| "Showing a Friend My Town" | |
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| "March 10, 1951" | |
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| "Bones & Ashes" | |
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| "Photograph" | |
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| "The Strippings" | |
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| "Cousin, Will You Take My Hand?" | |
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| "Susquehanna: The Projects" | |
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| "The Field (an Excerpt)" | |
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| "The Jeweler" | |
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| "Real Faux Pearls" | |
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| "Polka Dancing to Eddie Blazonczyk and His Versatones in Coaldale, Pennsylvania" | |
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| "A Different House" | |
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| "In Cursive" | |
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| "Spring Peepers, April, Wassergass" | |
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| "Easter Sunday, Seisholtzville" | |
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| "We Never Leave" | |
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| "Sprawl" | |
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| "Hawk Falls" | |
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| "Climbing the Three Hills in Search of the Best Christmas Tree" | |
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| "Lehighton" | |
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| "Gallivanting" | |
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| "Bombogenesis" | |
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| "The Quarry" | |
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| "J.B. Phones Me at the End of Summer, Asking Where I Find Silence in the Lehigh Valley" | |
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| "The Poconos" | |
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| "Deer" | |
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| Hills and Ridges: The Susquehanna Valley and Central Pennsylvania | |
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| "Naming Heraclitus" | |
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| "November Textures" | |
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| "Cousins" | |
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| "The Agnes Mark" | |
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| "Renovo" | |
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| "Freight" | |
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| "The Little League World Series: First Play" | |
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| "Going Back" | |
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| "Nocturne: Roller Mills Flea Market" | |
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| "Clearfield County Fair" | |
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| "The Bloomsburg Fair" | |
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| "Racetrack Downriver" | |
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| ""Fishing the Little J. Beneath the Methodist Church" | |
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| "The Company We Keep" | |
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| "Worlds End" | |
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| "Winter Walks, Perry County" | |
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| "It Isn't Raining" | |
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| "Pleasure Gap" | |
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| "Aunt Lena Committed to Bellefonte State Hospital" | |
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| "Running through Danville State Hospital" | |
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| "Laid Off in July" | |
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| "Awl Street" | |
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| "Harrisburg Echoes (Excerpts)" | |
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| "Nights Like This" | |
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| "Three Mile Island Siren" | |
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| "Dream City" | |
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| "Twelve Facts about the Immigrants: A Prose Poem" | |
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| "Acoustic Shadows" | |
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| "Gettysburg" | |
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| "The Battlefield Museum Guide Speaks" | |
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| Southwestern Pennsylvania: The Three Rivers Region and the Laurel Highlands | |
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| "Lines Written in a Pittsburgh Skyscraper" | |
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| "Bells" | |
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| "Listening to Jimmy Garrison (Pittsburgh, Pa.)" | |
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| "The Dancing" | |
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| "Integration (Kennywood Park, June 1963)" | |
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| "My Father Likes Pittsburgh" | |
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| "Pittsburgh Poem" | |
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| "Brick" | |
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| "My Grandfather's Cronies" | |
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| "Steelers! Steelers! Steelers!" | |
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| "Class A, Salem, the Rookie League" | |
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| "Slaving" | |
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| "Closed Mill" | |
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| "One of Many Bars in Ford City, Pennsylvania" | |
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| "Spill" | |
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| "Listening to Birds after a Mild Winter" | |
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| "Audubon's Nature Preserve, Fox Chapel" | |
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| "Desire" | |
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| "Panther Hollow Bridge, Pittsburgh" | |
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| "Mysteries of Pittsburgh" | |
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| "In Her Mind, She's Already Quit" | |
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| "Miracle Mile" | |
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| "Buddy Picture" | |
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| "Leaving Pittsburgh" | |
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| "Gray" | |
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| "Imagining the Johnstown Flood" | |
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| "Flash Flood" | |
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| "Altoona" | |
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| "Memorial Day, Elderton, Pennsylvania" | |
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| "Home Town" | |
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| "Apollo Is a Pink Town" | |
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| "Pennsylvania September: The Witnesses" | |
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| "Spring: Fayette County, PA" | |
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| "This Hill Will Get You There" | |
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| "Turning into a Pond" | |
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| North by Northwest: The Alleghenies and Erie | |
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| "Second Coming in Northern Pennsylvania" | |
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| "When I Looked Next" | |
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| "After Tithonus and Aurora, Thoughts on a Life of Work" | |
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| "Bullet Shell Heart" | |
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| "Jacklighting" | |
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| "White Tent in the Alleghenies" | |
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| "Mountain Night" | |
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| "Swimming in Lake Erie: Intermediate Beginners" | |
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| "The Resurrection of Lake Erie" | |
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| "Confession Off the Lake" | |
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| "Yet" | |
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| "Bus Stop at West 12th Street" | |
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| "In the Old Neighborhood It Begins in the Urgency of Whoever Is Nameless It Pulls the Night Hard in the Hands" | |
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| "Driving in Someone Else's Light" | |
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| "In a Diner in Franklin, Pennsylvania" | |
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| "Meditation in Oil City, PA" | |
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| "The Auctioneer" | |
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| "Tractor Pull" | |
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| "If We Were as Brilliant as Groundhogs" | |
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| "On Gobbler's Knob" | |
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| "The History of Summer" | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| The Poets | |
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| Index | |