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Foreword | |
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from A Change of World (1951) | |
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Storm Warnings | |
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Aunt Jennifer's Tigers | |
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Boundary | |
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At a Bach Concert | |
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from The Diamond Cutters (1955) | |
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Ideal Landscape | |
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Living in Sin | |
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The Snow Queen | |
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Letter from the Land of Sinners | |
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from Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law (1963) | |
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from Morning-Glory to Petersburg | |
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The Knight | |
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Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law | |
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Antinous: The Diaries | |
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Peeling Onions | |
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The Roofwalker | |
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Prospective Immigrants Please Note | |
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From Necessities of Life (1966) | |
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Necessities of Life | |
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In the Woods | |
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The Trees | |
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Like This Together | |
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Night-Pieces: For a Child | |
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"I Am in Danger--Sir--" | |
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Mourning Picture | |
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The Knot | |
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Focus | |
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From Leaflets (1969) | |
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Orion | |
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In the Evening | |
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The Demon Lover | |
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Jerusalem | |
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Night Watch | |
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For a Russian Poet | |
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Abnegation | |
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Implosions | |
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On Edges | |
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Leaflets | |
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from Ghazals: Homage to Ghalib | |
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7/12/68 The clouds are electric in this university | |
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7/14/68: i In Central Park we talked of our own cowardice | |
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7/14/68: ii Did you think I was talking about my life? | |
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7/16/68: i Blacked-out on a wagon, part of my life cut out forever-- | |
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7/16/68: ii When they mow the fields, I see the world reformed | |
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7/26/68: i Last night you wrote on the wall: Revolution is poetry | |
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8/1/68 The order of the small town on the riverbank | |
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8/4/68 If these are letters, they will have to be misread | |
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8/8/68: i From here on, all of us will be living | |
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8/8/68: ii A piece of thread ripped-out from a fierce design | |
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from The Will to Change (1971) | |
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November 1968 | |
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Study of History | |
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Planetarium | |
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The Burning of Paper Instead of Children | |
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I Dream I'm the Death of Orpheus | |
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Letters: March 1969 | |
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The Stelae | |
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A Valediction Forbidding Mourning | |
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from Shooting Script | |
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from Diving into the Wreck (1973) | |
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Trying to Talk with a Man | |
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When We Dead Awaken | |
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From the Prison House | |
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The Mirror in Which Two Are Seen as One | |
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Dialogue | |
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Diving into the Wreck | |
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Song | |
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The Ninth Symphony of Beethoven Understood at Last as a Sexual Message | |
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Rape | |
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Burning Oneself In | |
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From a Survivor | |
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August | |
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Uncollected Poems (1950-1974) | |
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The Prisoners | |
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At the Jewish New Year | |
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Dien Bien Phu | |
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Re-forming the Crystal | |
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White Night | |
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from an Old House in America | |
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The Fact of a Doorframe | |
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From The Dream of a Common Language (1978) | |
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Power | |
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Hunger | |
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Cartographies of Silence | |
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Twenty-One Love Poems | |
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A Woman Dead in Her Forties | |
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Natural Resources | |
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from A Wild Patience Has Taken Me This Far (1981) | |
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Integrity | |
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For Memory | |
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For Ethel Rosenberg | |
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Grandmothers | |
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The Spirit of Place | |
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Frame | |
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from Your Native Land, Your Life (1986) | |
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For the Record | |
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Virginia 1906 | |
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For an Occupant | |
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North American Time | |
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Blue Rock | |
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from Contradictions: Tracking Poems | |
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Look: this is January | |
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Heart of cold | |
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My mouth hovers | |
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Dear Adrienne: I'm calling you up tonight | |
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Dear Adrienne, I feel signified by pain | |
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Night over the great and the little worlds | |
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I came out of the hospital | |
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Violence as purification | |
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Lately in my dreams | |
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You who think I find words for everything | |
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The problem, unstated till now | |
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The tobacco fields lie fallow | |
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In a bald skull sits our friend | |
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You know the Government must have pushed them | |
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You: air-driven reft | |
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The Tolstoyans | |
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You who think I find words for everything | |
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from Time's Power (1989) | |
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In a Classroom | |
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The Novel | |
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Children Playing Checkers at the Edge of the Forest | |
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The Desert as Garden of Paradise | |
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Delta | |
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Dreamwood | |
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Harpers Ferry | |
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From An Atlas of the Difficult World (1991) | |
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from An Atlas of the Difficult World | |
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A dark woman, head bent | |
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Here is a map of our country | |
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Late summers, early autumns | |
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Catch if you can your country's moment | |
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(The dream-site) | |
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He thought there would be a limit | |
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On this earth, in this life | |
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Soledad. = f. Solitude, loneliness | |
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One night on Monterey Bay | |
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(Dedications) | |
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That Mouth | |
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Marghanita | |
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Tattered Kaddish | |
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Final Notations | |
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from Dark Fields of the Republic (1995) | |
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What Kind of Times Are These | |
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In Those Years | |
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Calle Vision | |
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Then or Now | |
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Food Packages: 1947 | |
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Innocence: 1945 | |
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Sunset, December, 1993 | |
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Deportations | |
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And Now | |
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Late Ghazal | |
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from Inscriptions | |
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comrade | |
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movement | |
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history | |
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edgelit | |
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From Midnight Salvage (1999) | |
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For an Anniversary | |
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Midnight Salvage | |
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Char | |
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Letters to a Young Poet | |
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Camino Real | |
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Seven Skins | |
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Rusted Legacy | |
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from Fox (2001) | |
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Veterans Day | |
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Architect | |
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Fox | |
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Fire | |
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Noctilucent Clouds | |
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If Your Name Is on the List | |
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1999 | |
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Four Short Poems | |
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(driving home from Robin Blaser's reading) | |
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We're not yet out of the everglades | |
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Beethoven's "Appassionata" played | |
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From the new crudities, from the old | |
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Ends of the Earth | |
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Notes | |
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Index | |