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| Introduction | |
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| Chronology | |
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| Early Poems | |
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| The Balance Wheel (1958) | |
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| An Obsessive Combination of Ontological Inscape, Trickery and Love (1959) | |
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| My Friend, My Friend (1959) | |
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| from 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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| Music Swims Back to Me | |
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| Elizabeth Gone | |
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| Some Foreign Letters | |
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| Said the Poet to the Analyst | |
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| Her Kind | |
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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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| Ringing the Bells | |
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| Lullaby | |
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| The Lost Ingredient | |
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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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| from 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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| The Abortion | |
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| With Mercy for the Greedy | |
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| In the Deep Museum | |
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| The Fortress | |
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| Old | |
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| Housewife | |
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| Letter Written on a Ferry While Crossing Long Island Sound | |
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| For Eleanor Boylan Talking with God | |
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| The Black Art | |
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| from Live or Die (1966) | |
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| And One for My Dame | |
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| Flee on Your Donkey | |
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| Somewhere in Africa | |
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| Consorting with Angels | |
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| The Legend of the One-Eyed Man | |
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| Protestant Easter | |
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| For the Year of the Insane | |
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| Walking in Paris | |
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| Menstruation at Forty | |
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| Wanting to Die | |
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| Little Girl, My Stringbean, My Lovely Woman | |
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| Your Face on the Dog's Neck | |
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| Self in 1958 | |
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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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| from Love Poems (1969) | |
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| The Breast | |
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| In Celebration of My Uterus | |
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| Loving the Killer | |
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| For My Lover, Returning to His Wife | |
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| It Is a Spring Afternoon | |
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| Just Once | |
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| You All Know the Story of the Other Woman | |
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| The Ballad of the Lonely Masturbator | |
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| The Papa and Mama Dance | |
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| Us | |
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| Mr. Mine | |
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| Song for a Lady | |
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| from Eighteen Days Without You | |
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| December 2 | |
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| December 11 | |
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| December 18 | |
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| from Transformations (1971) | |
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| Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs | |
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| Rapunzel | |
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| One-Eye, Two-Eyes, Three-Eyes | |
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| The Frog Prince | |
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| Briar Rose (Sleeping Beauty) | |
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| from The Book of Folly (1972) | |
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| from Thirty Poems | |
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| Mother and Daughter | |
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| Dreaming the Breasts | |
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| The Silence | |
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| from 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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| 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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| from 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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| from The Death Notebooks (1974) | |
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| For Mr. Death Who Stands with His Door Open | |
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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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| from The Furies | |
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| The Fury of Beautiful Bones | |
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| The Fury of Guitars and Sopranos | |
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| The Fury of Cooks | |
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| The Fury of Cocks | |
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| The Fury of Sunsets | |
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| The Fury of Sunrises | |
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| Clothes | |
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| from O Ye Tongues | |
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| First Psalm | |
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| Fourth Psalm | |
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| Eighth Psalm | |
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| Tenth Psalm | |
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| from The Awful Rowing Toward God (1975) | |
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| Rowing | |
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| Riding the Elevator into the Sky | |
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| When Man Enters Woman | |
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| The Earth | |
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| Jesus, the Actor, Plays the Holy Ghost | |
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| Frenzy | |
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| The God-Monger | |
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| Small Wire | |
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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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| from Beginning the Hegira | |
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| The Money Swing | |
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| Food | |
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| from Bestiary U.S.A. | |
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| Hornet | |
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| Star-Nosed Mole | |
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| Whale | |
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| from The Divorce Papers | |
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| Where It Was At Back Then | |
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| from Eating the Leftovers | |
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| Divorce, Thy Name Is Woman | |
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| The Consecrating Mother | |
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| Words for Dr. Y. (1978) | |
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| from Letters to Dr. Y. | |
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| [What has it come to, Dr. Y.] | |
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| [I called him Comfort] | |
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| [It's music you've never heard] | |
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| [I'm dreaming the My Lai soldier again] | |
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| from Scorpio, Bad Spider, Die: The Horoscope Poems | |
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| January 24th | |
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| February 3rd | |
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| February 21st | |
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| from Last Poems | |
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| In Excelsis | |