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| A Note on the Text | |
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| How It Was: Maxine Kumin on Anne Sexton | |
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| To Bedlam and Part Way Back (1960) | |
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| You, Doctor Martin | |
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| Kind Sir: These Woods | |
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| Torn Down from Glory Daily | |
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| Music Swims Back to Me | |
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| The Bells | |
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| Elizabeth Gone | |
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| Some Foreign Letters | |
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| The Kite | |
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| Said the Poet to the Analyst | |
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| Venus and the Ark | |
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| Her Kind | |
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| The Exorcists | |
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| Where I Live in This Honorable House of the Laurel Tree | |
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| Portrait of an Old Woman on the College Tavern Wall | |
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| The Farmer's Wife | |
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| Funnel | |
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| The Expatriates | |
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| For Johnny Pole on the Forgotten Beach | |
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| Unknown Girl in the Maternity Ward | |
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| What's That | |
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| The Moss of His Skin | |
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| Hutch | |
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| Noon Walk on the Asylum Lawn | |
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| Ringing the Bells | |
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| Lullaby | |
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| The Lost Ingredient | |
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| The Road Back | |
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| The Waiting Head | |
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| Elegy in the Classroom | |
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| A Story for Rose on the Midnight Flight to Boston | |
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| For John, Who Begs Me Not to Enquire Further | |
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| The Double Image | |
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| The Division of Parts | |
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| All My Pretty Ones (1962) | |
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| The Truth the Dead Know | |
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| All My Pretty Ones | |
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| Young | |
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| Lament | |
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| To a Friend Whose Work Has Come to Triumph | |
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| The Starry Night | |
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| Old Dwarf Heart | |
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| I Remember | |
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| The Operation | |
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| A Curse Against Elegies | |
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| The Abortion | |
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| With Mercy for the Greedy | |
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| For God While Sleeping | |
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| In the Deep Museum | |
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| Ghosts | |
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| The Fortress | |
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| Old | |
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| The Hangman | |
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| Woman with Girdle | |
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| The House | |
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| Water | |
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| Wallflower | |
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| Housewife | |
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| Doors, Doors, Doors | |
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| Letter Written on a Ferry While Crossing Long Island Sound | |
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| From the Garden | |
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| Love Song for K. Owyne | |
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| Flight | |
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| For Eleanor Boylan Talking with God | |
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| The Black Art | |
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| Letter Written During a January Northeaster | |
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| Live or Die (1966) | |
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| Author's Note | |
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| And One for My Dame | |
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| The Sun | |
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| Flee on Your Donkey | |
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| Three Green Windows | |
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| Somewhere in Africa | |
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| Imitations of Drowning | |
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| Mother and Jack and the Rain | |
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| Consorting with Angels | |
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| The Legend of the One-eyed Man | |
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| Love Song | |
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| Man and Wife | |
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| Those Times... | |
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| Two Sons | |
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| To Lose the Earth | |
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| Sylvia's Death | |
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| Protestant Easter | |
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| For the Year of the Insane | |
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| Crossing the Atlantic | |
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| Walking in Paris | |
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| Menstruation at Forty | |
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| Christmas Eve | |
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| KE 6-8018 | |
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| Wanting to Die | |
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| The Wedding Night | |
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| Little Girl, My String Bean, My Lovely Woman | |
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| A Little Uncomplicated Hymn | |
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| Your Face on the Dog's Neck | |
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| Self in 1958 | |
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| Suicide Note | |
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| In the Beach House | |
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| Cripples and Other Stories | |
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| Pain for a Daughter | |
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| The Addict | |
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| Live | |
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| Love Poems (1969) | |
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| The Touch | |
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| The Kiss | |
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| The Breast | |
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| The Interrogation of the Man of Many Hearts | |
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| That Day | |
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| In Celebration of My Uterus | |
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| The Nude Swim | |
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| Song for a Red Nightgown | |
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| Loving the Killer | |
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| For My Lover, Returning to His Wife | |
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| The Break | |
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| It Is a Spring Afternoon | |
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| Just Once | |
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| Again and Again and Again | |
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| You All Know the Story of the Other Woman | |
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| Moon Song, Woman Song | |
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| The Ballad of the Lonely Masturbator | |
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| Barefoot | |
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| The Papa and Mama Dance | |
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| Now | |
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| Us | |
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| Mr. Mine | |
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| Song for a Lady | |
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| Knee Song | |
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| Eighteen Days Without You | |
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| Transformations (1971) | |
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| The Gold Key | |
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| Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs | |
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| The White Snake | |
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| Rumpelstiltskin | |
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| The Little Peasant | |
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| Godfather Death | |
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| Rapunzel | |
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| Iron Hans | |
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| Cinderella | |
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| One-Eye, Two-Eyes, Three-Eyes | |
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| The Wonderful Musician | |
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| Red Riding Hood | |
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| The Maiden Without Hands | |
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| The Twelve Dancing Princesses | |
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| The Frog Prince | |
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| Hansel and Gretel | |
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| Briar Rose (Sleeping Beauty) | |
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| The Book of Folly (1972) | |
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| Thirty Poems | |
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| The Ambition Bird | |
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| The Doctor of the Heart | |
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| Oh | |
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| Sweeney | |
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| Mother and Daughter | |
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| The Wifebeater | |
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| The Firebombers | |
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| The One-Legged Man | |
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| The Assassin | |
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| Going Gone | |
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| Anna Who Was Mad | |
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| The Hex | |
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| Dreaming the Breasts | |
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| The Red Shoes | |
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| The Other | |
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| The Silence | |
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| The Hoarder | |
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| Killing the Spring | |
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| The Death of the Fathers | |
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| Oysters | |
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| How We Danced | |
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| The Boat | |
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| Santa | |
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| Friends | |
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| Begat | |
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| Angels of the Love Affair | |
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| Angel of Fire and Genitals | |
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| Angel of Clean Sheets | |
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| Angel of Flight and Sleigh Bells | |
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| Angel of Hope and Calendars | |
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| Angel of Blizzards and Blackouts | |
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| Angel of Beach Houses and Picnics | |
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| The Jesus Papers | |
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| Jesus Suckles | |
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| Jesus Awake | |
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| Jesus Asleep | |
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| Jesus Raises Up the Harlot | |
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| Jesus Cooks | |
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| Jesus Summons Forth | |
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| Jesus Dies | |
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| Jesus Unborn | |
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| The Author of the Jesus Papers Speaks | |
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| The Death Notebooks (1974) | |
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| Gods | |
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| Making a Living | |
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| For Mr. Death Who Stands with His Door Open | |
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| Faustus and I | |
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| The Death Baby | |
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| Dreams | |
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| The Dy-dee Doll | |
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| Seven Times | |
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| Madonna | |
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| Max | |
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| Baby | |
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| Rats Live on No Evil Star | |
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| Grandfather, Your Wound | |
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| Baby Picture | |
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| The Furies | |
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| The Fury of Beautiful Bones | |
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| The Fury of Hating Eyes | |
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| The Fury of Guitars and Sopranos | |
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| The Fury of Earth | |
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| The Fury of Jewels and Coal | |
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| The Fury of Cooks | |
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| The Fury of Cocks | |
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| The Fury of Abandonment | |
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| The Fury of Overshoes | |
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| The Fury of Rain Storms | |
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| The Fury of Flowers and Worms | |
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| The Fury of God's Good-bye | |
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| The Fury of Sundays | |
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| The Fury of Sunsets | |
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| The Fury of Sunrises | |
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| Praying on a 707 | |
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| Clothes | |
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| Mary's Song | |
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| God's Backside | |
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| Jesus Walking | |
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| Hurry Up Please It's Time | |
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| O Ye Tongues | |
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| First Psalm | |
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| Second Psalm | |
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| Third Psalm | |
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| Fourth Psalm | |
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| Fifth Psalm | |
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| Sixth Psalm | |
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| Seventh Psalm | |
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| Eighth Psalm | |
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| Ninth Psalm | |
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| Tenth Psalm | |
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| The Awful Rowing Toward God (1975) | |
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| Rowing | |
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| The Civil War | |
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| The Children | |
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| Two Hands | |
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| The Room of My Life | |
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| The Witch's Life | |
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| The Earth Falls Down | |
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| Courage | |
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| Riding the Elevator into the Sky | |
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| When Man Enters Woman | |
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| The Fish That Walked | |
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| The Fallen Angels | |
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| The Earth | |
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| After Auschwitz | |
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| The Poet of Ignorance | |
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| The Sermon of the Twelve Acknowledgments | |
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| The Evil Eye | |
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| The Dead Heart | |
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| The Play | |
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| The Sickness Unto Death | |
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| Locked Doors | |
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| The Evil Seekers | |
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| The Wall | |
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| Is It True? | |
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| Welcome Morning | |
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| Jesus, the Actor, Plays the Holy Ghost | |
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| The God-Monger | |
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| What the Bird with the Human Head Knew | |
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| The Fire Thief | |
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| The Big Heart | |
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| Words | |
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| Mothers | |
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| Doctors | |
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| Frenzy | |
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| Snow | |
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| Small Wire | |
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| The Saints Come Marching In | |
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| Not So. Not So. | |
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| The Rowing Endeth | |
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| Posthumously Published Work | |
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| 45 Mercy Street (1976) | |
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| Editor's Note | |
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| Beginning the Hegira | |
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| 45 Mercy Street | |
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| Talking to Sheep | |
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| The Falling Dolls | |
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| The Money Swing | |
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| Food | |
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| The Child Bearers | |
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| The Taker | |
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| The Risk | |
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| Praying to Big Jack | |
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| Red Roses | |
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| The Shout | |
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| Keeping the City | |
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| Bestiary U.S.A. | |
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| Bat | |
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| Hog | |
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| Porcupine | |
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| Hornet | |
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| Star-Nosed Mole | |
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| Snail | |
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| Lobster | |
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| Snake | |
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| Moose | |
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| Sheep | |
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| Cockroach | |
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| Raccoon | |
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| Seal | |
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| Earthworm | |
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| Whale | |
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| Horse | |
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| June Bug | |
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| Gull | |
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| The Divorce Papers | |
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| Where It Was At Back Then | |
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| The Wedlock | |
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| Landscape Winter | |
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| Despair | |
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| Divorce | |
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| Waking Alone | |
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| Bayonet | |
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| The Wedding Ring Dance | |
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| When the Glass of My Body Broke | |
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| The Break Away | |
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| The Stand-Ins | |
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| The Love Plant | |
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| Killing the Love | |
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| The Red Dance | |
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| The Inventory of Goodbye | |
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| The Lost Lie | |
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| End, Middle, Beginning | |
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| Eating the Leftovers | |
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| Cigarettes and Whiskey and Wild, Wild Women | |
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| The Passion of the Mad Rabbit | |
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| The Angel Food Dogs | |
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| Leaves That Talk | |
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| "Daddy" Warbucks | |
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| Divorce, Thy Name Is Woman | |
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| The Fierceness of Female | |
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| The Big Boots of Pain | |
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| Demon | |
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| The Sea Corpse | |
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| There You Were | |
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| The Consecrating Mother | |
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| Words for Dr. Y. (1978) | |
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| Editor's Note | |
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| Letters to Dr. Y. (1960-1970) | |
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| Poems 1971-1973 | |
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| Buying the Whore | |
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| To Like, To Love | |
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| The Surgeon | |
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| Speaking Bitterness | |
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| Telephone | |
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| Yellow | |
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| The Death King | |
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| The Errand | |
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| The Twelve-Thousand-Day Honeymoon | |
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| Scorpio, Bad Spider, Die: The Horoscope Poems | |
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| Madame Arrives in the Mail | |
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| January 1st | |
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| January 19th | |
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| January 24th | |
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| February 3rd | |
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| February 4th | |
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| February 11th | |
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| February 17th | |
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| February 20th | |
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| February 21st | |
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| March 4th | |
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| March 7th | |
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| May 30th | |
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| August 8th | |
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| August 17th | |
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| Last Poems | |
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| Admonitions to a Special Person | |
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| In Excelsis | |
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| Uses | |
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| As It Was Written | |
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| Lessons in Hunger | |
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| Love Letter Written in a Burning Building | |
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| Index of Titles | |