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Acknowledgments | |
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Introduction: Saying What Happened in the 21st Century | |
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New | |
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Previews | |
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Bubble Wrap | |
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Action Poem | |
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Curse | |
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The Soldier Who Guards the Frontier | |
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To the Republic | |
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Inauguration Day | |
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Call and Answer | |
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Let Sympathy Pass | |
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The Stew of Discontents | |
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Those Being Eaten | |
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Here the Sleepers Sleep | |
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The Altars of September | |
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Flag | |
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Ringtone | |
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Lines from the Reports of the Investigative Committees | |
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Partial Inventory of Airborne Debris | |
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Dream of Arabian Hillbillies | |
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The Ghost of Heaven | |
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Flee | |
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Earth | |
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Fish Market | |
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The Vessel Bends the Water | |
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Background Check | |
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Protest Song | |
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October | |
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Some Common Terms in Latin That Are Larger Than Our Lives | |
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"A1" from The Day | |
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Little Exercise | |
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Praying (Attempt of June 14'03) | |
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Guant�namo | |
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Employment | |
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Sweet | |
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Father Mercy, Mother Tongue | |
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Still Life | |
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The Selvage | |
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Y2K | |
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Letter to Hayden Carruth | |
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From Names | |
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Ghazal: min al-hobbi m'a qatal | |
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Aftermath | |
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What Happened | |
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Conference | |
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I am Your Waiter Tonight and My Name is Dmitri | |
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Ezra Pound's Proposition | |
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On Visiting the DMZ at Panmunjom: A Haibun | |
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Some of David's Story | |
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Happy Anniversary | |
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Full Flight | |
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Troubled Times | |
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In the Loop | |
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Stop-loss | |
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From Nine Untitled Epyllions | |
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Reportorial Poetry, Trance & Activism | |
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In a Senate Armed Services Hearing | |
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Request to the Berkeley City Council Concerning Strawberry Creek | |
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In High Desert Under the Drones | |
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When the Towers Fell | |
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From "Love in the Time of War" | |
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Grenade | |
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The Towers | |
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Heavy Metal Soliloquy | |
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The Warlord's Garden | |
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Surge | |
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Clouds | |
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Extraordinary Rendition | |
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On Reading The Age of Innocence in a Troubled Time | |
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Entering Houses at Night | |
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Still We Take Joy | |
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Just Deserts | |
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Victory | |
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Hum | |
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Echo Revision | |
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Didactic Elegy | |
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Ready-Mades | |
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Vita Breva | |
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Beauty | |
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Elegy for Oum Kolsoum Written Across the Sky | |
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Column I, Tablet XIII | |
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Jihad | |
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Assault to Abjury | |
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Sen Jak's Advice to the Tropically Depressed | |
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On being Transparent: Cedar Rapids Airport | |
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To the Light of September | |
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To the Words | |
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To the Grass of Autumn | |
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To Ashes | |
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To the Coming Winter | |
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From "Hung Lyres" | |
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Asymmetrices | |
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Testimony | |
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Compline | |
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From "Homefront/Removes" | |
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Dictionary in the Dark | |
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Interview, Saudi Arabia | |
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I Never Realized They Had Aspirations Like Ours | |
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A History | |
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September, 2001 | |
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Poem of Disconnected Parts | |
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The Forgetting | |
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The Anniversary | |
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National Anthem | |
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Dead Soldier | |
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Those Who Could Not Flee | |
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Recent History | |
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God Bless Our Troops | |
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From Don't Let Me be Lonely: An American Lyric: "Cornel West makes the point" | |
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"Timothy McVeigh died at 7:14 A.M." | |
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Given Days | |
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Vietnam Epic Treatment | |
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Election Year | |
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God Exploding | |
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The Black-Eyed Virgins | |
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Eurostar | |
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Song: "The Swollen River Overthrows Its Banks" | |
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The Bush Administration | |
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Found Poem: Microloans | |
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Thinking of Baghdad | |
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The Anatomy of Melancholy | |
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When I'm Crying, I'm not speaking | |
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When I'm speaking, I'm not crying | |
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Elegy Against the Massacre at the Amish School in West Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania, Autumn 2006 | |
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In Rubble | |
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War | |
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Fear | |
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The Future | |
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Cassandra, Iraq | |
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Lies | |
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Found in the Free Library | |
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In a Time of War | |
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Back Then, We Called It "The War" | |
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The Show Must Go On | |
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Rendition, with Flag | |
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Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) | |
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From Rising, Falling, Hovering: "He slept with the dead then" | |
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"One bright night" | |
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"I was just thinking" | |
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Exxon | |
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The Poets: Profiles and Statements | |
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Index | |