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| Introduction [organized chronologically by year of poet''s birth], 1803-1882 | |
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| "Woods, A Prose Sonnet", 1809-1849 | |
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| "Shadow -- A Parable", 1849-1887 | |
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| "The Exodus (August 3, 1492) | |
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| "Amy Lowell, 1874-1925 | |
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| "Red Slippers", 1874-194622 | |
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| "Objects" from Tender ButtonsWilliam, 1883-1963 | |
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| Three Improvisations from Kora in, 1886-1961 | |
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| "Strophe""Antistrophe""Epode", 1888-1965 | |
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| "Hysteria"e. e. cummings, 1894-1962 | |
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| "i was sitting in mcsorley''s", 1894-1967 | |
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| "Calling Jesus", 1897-1975 | |
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| "Sentences", 1899-1932 | |
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| "Havana Rose", 1899-1961 | |
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| "Montparnasse", 1901-1993 | |
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| "News", 1903-19832 | |
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| "Aaron", 1907-1973 | |
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| "Vespers", 1911-19792 | |
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| "12 O''Clock News", 1911- | |
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| "Esse""Be Like Others", 1911-1972 | |
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| "In Order To""Delighted with Bluepink" | |
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| "The Famous Boating Party", 1913-1966 | |
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| "Justice", 1914-1997 | |
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| "I sink back upon the ground...""The Story of Progress"Barbara Guest, 1920- | |
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| "Color", 1923-1991 | |
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| "Two Meditations""Wonderful World""Footnote", 1925-2002 | |
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| "On Happiness""The Allegory of Spring""The Wish to Be Pregnant, 1926-" | |
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| "The Hockey Poem""Warning to the Reader" | |
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| "A Rusty Tin Can""One Day at a Florida Key", 1926-1997" | |
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| A Supermarket in California", 1926-1995 | |
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| Three Poems from "Prose of Departure", 1926-1966 | |
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| "Meditations in an Emergency""Schoenberg", 1927- | |
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| "Whatever It Is, Wherever You Are""Haibun 6" | |
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| "A Nice Presentation"""Meet Me Tonight in Dreamland", 1927- | |
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| Disagreeable Glimpses""Meet Me Tonight in Dreamland""Meet Me Tonight in Dreamland", 1927- | |
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| W. S. Merwin, 1927-."Humble Beginning" | |
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| "The Dachau Shoe""Our Jailer""The Lonely Child" | |
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| "Meet Me Tonight in Dreamland", 1927-James Wright, 1927-1980" | |
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| On Having My Pocket Picked in Rome""Honey" | |
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| "Meet Me Tonight in Dreamland", 1927- | |
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| John Hollander, 1929-."The Way We Walk Now" | |
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| "Crocus Solus""Not Something for Nothing" | |
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| "Meet Me Tonight in Dreamland", 1927-Harry Mathews, 1930- | |
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| Three Entries from 20 Lines a Day.t | |
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| "Meet Me Tonight in Dreamland", 1927-Mark Strand, 1934- | |
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| "In the Privacy of the Home""Success Story" | |
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| "From a Lost Diary""Chekhov: A Sestina", 1935- | |
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| "The Doorway of Perception", 1935- | |
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| "A Performance at Hog Theater""The Pilot" | |
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| "The Taxi""The Rat''s Tight Schedule""The Canoeing Trip" | |
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| "The New Father"Rosmarie Waldrop, 1935- | |
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| Five Poems from The Reproduction of Profiles, 1938- | |
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| Three Poems from The World Doesn''t End"The Magic Study of Happiness" | |
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| "Contributor''s Note"Margaret Atwood, 1939- | |
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| "Women''s Novels""In Love with Raymond Chandler", 1939- | |
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| "Borges and I", 1940- | |
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| "Everything''s a Fake""Doubt", 1941- | |
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| "Death, Revenge and the Profit Motive", 1941- | |
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| "Five Fondly Remembered Passages from My Childhood Reading", 1941- | |
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| "A Story About the Body""In the Bahamas""Tall Windows", 1941- | |
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| Three Sections From My Life, 1942-1994 | |
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| "Freud""History", 1942- | |
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| "Football""Appointed Rounds""The Prose Poem", 1942- | |
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| "Light as Air""Album", 1943- | |
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| "A word is coming up on the screen...", 1943- | |
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| "The Second Greatest Story Ever Told""Same Tits" | |
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| "The List of Famous Hats""Distance from Loved Ones""Rapture" | |
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| "Bernie at the Pay Phone", 1944- | |
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| "Triptych""Acknowledgments", 1945- | |
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| "So Let''s Look At It Another Way", 1945- | |
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| "Visions or Desolation", 1945- | |
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| "Untitled", 1945- | |
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| "Seurat", 1945- | |
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| "Stereo", 1945- | |
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| "Shoot the Horse", 1946- | |
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| "The Wreck of the Platonic", 1946- | |
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| "De Natura Rerum""Secret Training""Power", 1947- | |
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| "Bases""Middle Men""Imaginary Places", 1947- | |
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| "A Conversation About Memory", 1947- | |
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| "The Thirteenth Woman""In the Garment District""Agreement", 1947- | |
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| "The Chessboard Is on Fire", 1947- | |
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| "Nude Interrogation""The Hanoi Market" | |
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| "A Summer Night in Hanoi", 1947- | |
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| "Toy Car""Lateral Time", 1948- | |
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| "That They Were at the Beach", 1948- | |
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| "Why I Hate the Prose Poem", 1949-2001 | |
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| "Return to Harmony 3", 1949- | |
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| "inside gertrude stein", 1949- | |
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| "The Person", 1950- | |
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| "Comraderie turns to rivalry...", 1950- | |
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| "On Waterproofing""On Orchids""On Hedonism" | |
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| "On Shelter", 1950- | |
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| "The Colonel", 1950-2 | |
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| "Vectors: Thirty-six Aphorisms and Ten-Second Essays", 1950- | |
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| "Predella""Summer Rental", 1951- | |
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| "Pretty Happy!""Tex-Mex", 1952- | |
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| "His Pastime""Vanity, Wisconsin""The Inner Life", 1952- | |
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| "1833 Kentucky | |
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| "Magic (or Rousseau)""Matter", 1952- | |
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| "Epistle", 1952- | |
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| "Monument", 1953- | |
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| "Because the ones I work for..." | |
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| "Life is boundless...", 1954- | |
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| "Anna Karenina""Anal Nap", 1954- | |
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| "An Anointing", 1954- | |
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| "Cold Calls", ?- | |
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| "Variation on a Theme Park,""The Anthropic Principle" | |
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| "Sleeping with the Dictionary", 1955- | |
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| "Invective: You Should Know"April Bernard, 1956- | |
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| "Exegesis", 1956- | |
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| "Dear Boy George" | |
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| "The Bear-Boy of Lithuania", 1956- | |
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| "Avant-Derni�res Pens�es", 1957- | |
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| "No Sorry", 1957 - | |
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| "of Flesh and Spirit", 1958- | |
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| "Notes on the Orgasm" | |
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| "Always Have a Joyful Mind", 1960- | |
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| "Lecture""Death""State", 1961- | |
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| "Commencement Address", 1961- | |
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| "A Nap on the Afternoon of My 39th Birthday", 1961- | |
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| "In C", 1962- | |
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| "The Prose Poem", 1963- | |
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| "Fish Eyes""The Most Beautiful Word", 1963- | |
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| "Intermission in Four Acts", 1966- | |
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| "A Defense of Poetry", 1966- | |
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| Twelve Epistles from Letters to Wendy'', 1967- | |
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| "Still Life""Ode", 1967- | |
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| "It Could Be a Bird""When Kiss Spells Contradiction", 1968- | |
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| Two Poems from "Blasted Fields of Clover Bring Harrowing and Regretful Sighs", 1968- | |
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| "Mango, Number 61", 1968- | |
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| "Hot Ass Poem", 1970- | |
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| "Requiem", 1972- | |
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| "The Page Torn Out", 1972- | |
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| "According to the Appetites", 1972- | |
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| Two Poems from Masquerade, 1973- | |
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| "An American Story", 1973- | |
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| "The Crowds Cheered as Gloom Galloped Away"308 | |
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| Sarah Manguso, 1974- | |
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| "Nepenthe""What We Miss", 1976-- | |
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| "He appeared then..." | |
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| Notes on Contributors | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Index of Poems | |
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| Index of PoetsCopyright � 2003 | |
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