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Editor's Note | |
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Noir Cacadou, or The Fatal Music of War | |
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A Doppelganger | |
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Poem (Green things are flowers too) | |
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Entombment | |
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A Slow Poem | |
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In Gratitude to Masters | |
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Poem (Suppose that grey tree, so nude) | |
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Poem (Poised and cheerful the) | |
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Song (I'm going to New York!) | |
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A Pathetic Note | |
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Poem (Just as I leave the theatre) | |
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Windows | |
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A Byzantine Place | |
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Lines Across the United States | |
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An Epilogue: To the Players of Try! Try! | |
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Poem (I can't wait for spring!) | |
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Poem (This vessel I've chosen) | |
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Voyage a Paris | |
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A Party Full of Friends | |
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A Curse | |
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A Portrait | |
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Mr. O'Hara's Sunday Morning Service | |
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The Soldier | |
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Parties | |
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[In the street of children the sun is cold] | |
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Form and Utterance | |
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Round Objects | |
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Sky Rhymes | |
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The Air and Sex of Early Day | |
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A Virtuoso | |
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A Classical Last Act | |
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The Ideal Bar | |
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The Painter's Son | |
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A Military Ball | |
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Poem ("Green oboes!" the parrot cries,) | |
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Serenade (Starlings are singing) | |
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Vernissage Jane Freilicher | |
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Shelter | |
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Schoenberg | |
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[It is a weak cold morning and I roll] | |
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Poem (The tough newspaper boy will wear) | |
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On a Friend's Being Insulted | |
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To Dick | |
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The Puritan | |
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A Romantic Poet to His Muse | |
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A Greek Girl at Riis Beach | |
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Poets up in the Air | |
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[I walk through the rain] | |
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Chanty | |
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Grace and George, An Eclogue | |
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It's the Blue | |
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Jacob Wrestling | |
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Poem (Rat's nest, at home bungling, up) | |
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A Darkened Palette | |
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Poem ("It's only me knocking on the door") | |
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The Beach in April | |
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A Wind at Night | |
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Prose for the Times | |
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[Tent-digging on the vacant lakes we appled] | |
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Maurice Ravel | |
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"Red" | |
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Serenade (This night this forest) | |
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A Sunday Supplement | |
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Kra Kra | |
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A Protestant Saint | |
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What Sledgehammer? or W. C. Williams's Been Attacked! | |
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Latinus | |
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The War | |
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The Builders | |
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[With the minute intentions of a boa heroic constrictor] | |
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Changing Your Ways | |
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Study of Women on the Beach 2 | |
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Poem (The rich cubicle's enclosure) | |
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August Afternoon, A Collage | |
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[The azure waves grumble and languish] | |
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[Fish smells in the hallway] | |
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Poem About Jane | |
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[Rooftops blocks away from me] | |
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A Birthday | |
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[Of all community of mind and heart] | |
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A Wreath for John Wheelwright | |
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[See the tents and the tanks and the trees of March!] | |
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Intermezzo | |
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[My country, leafy and blue with infinite breaths] | |
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Clouds | |
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Causerie de Gaspe Peninsula | |
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St. Simeon | |
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Light Cavalry | |
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Addict-Love | |
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[En route to the burial in Long Island] | |
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Perfumes | |
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[Lace at your breast] | |
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Joseph | |
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Spleen | |
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Forest Divers | |
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The Weekend | |
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The Lights Over the Door | |
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Bridlepath | |
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Indian Diary | |
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"Light Conversation" | |
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Southern Villages, A Sestina | |
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Green Words, A Sestina | |
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Tschaikovskiana | |
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Palisades | |
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Bill's Body Shop | |
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A Little on His Recentness | |
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[There's such an I love you!] | |
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Poem (Water flow strongly O clouds) | |
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Dear Bobby | |
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To Bobby | |
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[So the spirit of music, the cascades!] | |
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Sonnet (O at last the towers!) | |
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[A face over a book] | |
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[Into the valley they go] | |
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[She hefted her leg onto the table and] | |
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On a Back Issue of Accent | |
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The Last Day of the Zoo | |
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To the Meadow | |
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Benjamin Franklin, or Isadora Duncan | |
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Augustus | |
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Poem (The paralysis of power and ease) | |
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The Mike Goldberg Variations | |
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Room | |
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[Dumb urns in syncamore temples] | |
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Lexington Avenue, An Eclogue | |
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[In the pearly green light] | |
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Poem (Here we are again together) | |
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[Pussywillows! Oh you're still here,] | |
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Movie Cantata | |
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[O resplendent green sea! I slowly pierce] | |
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[Five sobs lined up on the doorstep] | |
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Epigram for Joe | |
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Ode (I don't eat wheat) | |
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Jackie (After John Gower) | |
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[The brittle moment comes] | |
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[On the world's first evening] | |
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F# | |
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[Now It Seems Far Away and Gentle] | |
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Corresponding Foreignly | |
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Song (J'arrive au casserole at je casse une croute) | |
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Bagatelle, or The Importance of Being Larry and Frank | |
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Pitcher | |
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Collected Proses, An Answer | |
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Une Journee de Juillet | |
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[Dusk. Dawn. The land. An albatross thinks of Spain.] | |
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Attacca | |
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Chopiniana | |
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[She, has she bathed in sound] | |
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[It is 1:55 in Cambridge, pale and spring cool,] | |
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To John Ashbery on Szymanowski's Birthday | |
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Poem (Flower! you are like synthetic feelings,) | |
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Un Chant Contre Paroles | |
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[And leaving in a great smoky fury] | |
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[Three Parodies] | |
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Episode | |
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The Stars | |
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Springtemps | |
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To Ned | |
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Platinum, Watching TV, Etc. | |
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[There's nothing more beautiful] | |
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[Have you ever wanted] | |
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Fou-rire | |
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Two Poems and a Half | |
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Callas and a Photograph of Gregory Corso | |
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To Violet Lang | |
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Poem (I could die) | |
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University Place | |
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[It is 4:19 in Pennsylvania Station] | |
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Maria Kurenko (Rachmaninoff Sings) | |
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[Why is David Randolph such a jerk] | |
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Kein Traum | |
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[On the vast highway] | |
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Poem ("We'll probably pay for it in August" the radio says) | |
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Poem (You do not always seem to be able to decide) | |
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Old Copies of Life Magazine | |
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"Chez William Kramps" | |
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Young Girl in Pursuit of Lorca | |
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[How wonderful it is that the Park Avenue Viaduct is being rehabilitated] | |
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A Trip to the Zoo | |
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Dear Vincent | |
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[The fondest dream of] | |
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What Happened to "The Elephant Is at the Door" | |
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After a Meeting of The 2nd Coming | |
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Poem During Poulenc's Gloria | |
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The Trout Quintet | |
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F.Y.I. #371 (The Nun) | |
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F.Y.I. #371a (Haiku Day for the Nuns) | |
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F.Y.I. #371b (Parallel Forces Excerpted) | |
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Le Domaine Musical | |
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[Like a barbershop that's closed on Saturday, me heart] | |
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Off the Kerb and After Emily Dickinson | |
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Shooting the Shit Again | |
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[How poecile and endearing is the Porch] | |
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Conglomerations in the Snow of Christmas Eve 1961 | |
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Un Homme Respectueux | |
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Le Boeuf sur le Toit | |
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My Day | |
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[I will always remember] | |
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Poem (Hoopla! yah yah yah) | |
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Poem (It's faster if you late but may never occur) | |
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To Lotte Lenya | |
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Lawrence | |
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Song (I ate out your heart) | |
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Pedantry | |
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Poem (In that red) | |
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[What strange cataract the peculiar] | |
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[The ancient ache, quick false move] | |
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Poem (lost lost) | |
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[I know that you try even harder than I] | |
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[Not to confirm dolors with a wild laugh] | |
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[Long as the street becomes] | |
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[Just as I am not sure where everything is going] | |
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[Why are there flies on the floor] | |
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Notes on the Poems | |
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Index of Titles and First Lines | |