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| Introduction | |
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| Twilight | |
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| Twice Removed | |
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| Months Later | |
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| Untitled | |
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| Why We Fear the Amish | |
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| Midnight at the Third Street Sculpture Garden | |
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| Sisters in Perpetual Motion | |
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| Rustic Portrait | |
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| Interlude: Still Still | |
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| Whether or Not There Are Apples | |
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| Elegy for Lessons | |
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| Dark Yellow Poem | |
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| The Chair | |
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| Nights at The Cedar | |
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| All I Can Say | |
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| Burning the Fields | |
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| The Lacemaker's Condenser | |
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| The Suicide of Clover Adams: 1885 | |
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| The Vietnam Birthday Lottery, 1970 | |
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| Piano Tuning | |
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| X-ray Vision | |
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| Smoking | |
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| The Cockroaches of Tuol Sleng Museum | |
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| Gloomy Sunday | |
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| Haldol | |
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| Crack | |
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| Genius | |
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| The Country | |
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| Absence | |
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| Velocity | |
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| Today | |
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| A Place Made of Starlight | |
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| For Jude the Obscure | |
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| Brothers' Keepers | |
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| To My Hypocrite Reader | |
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| God Comes in a Dream to Cure a Suppliant | |
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| Gratitude | |
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| Fashion Shoot, Frijoles Canyon | |
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| Memorial Day | |
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| Moths | |
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| Red Lead, 1978 | |
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| After the Sea Parts, My Daughter Walks Among Gravestones | |
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| Like a Simile | |
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| Joyland | |
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| Heat | |
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| Morphine | |
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| First Solo Flight | |
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| Clown Prince | |
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| The Day After | |
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| My Mother's See-Through Blouse | |
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| Brown's Farm | |
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| Night-Light | |
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| The Bindi Mirror | |
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| Ululu | |
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| The Stilt Fisherman | |
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| Tagging the Stealer | |
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| Biophilia | |
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| God | |
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| Clitoris | |
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| Dead Baby Speaks | |
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| Two of the Lost Five Foolish Virgins | |
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| The Rainbow Bridge in the Painting of the Sung Dynasty | |
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| Guillotine Windows | |
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| Unexpected Holiday | |
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| (Often, In Dreams, He Moved) | |
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| (That Day He Spent Hours) | |
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| Mystery, So Long | |
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| At the Gym | |
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| Fish-R-Us | |
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| From "An Island Sheaf": | |
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| Sea Grape Valentine | |
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| Watermelon Soda | |
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| On the Chinese Abduction of Tibet's Child Panchen Lama | |
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| A Genesis Text for Larry Levis, Who Died Alone | |
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| The Caste Wife Speaks to the Enigmatic Parabolas | |
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| Elegy for My Brother | |
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| The Death of God | |
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| Nature | |
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| Different Hours | |
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| A Postmortem Guide | |
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| Inspiration | |
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| Vigil | |
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| Narcissus | |
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| Overhead Fan | |
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| Exam | |
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| Outer Space | |
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| Passing Things | |
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| The Instruction Manual | |
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| The White Dress | |
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| She | |
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| Walt, I Salute You! | |
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| Madame L. Describes the Seige of Paris | |
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| Split the Lark | |
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| One Kiss | |
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| When the Enemy Is Illiterate | |
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| Invaded by Souls | |
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| Laughter and Stars | |
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| Rooms and Their Airs (Camere et Aer Ipsius) | |
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| White Asparagus | |
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| What We're Used To | |
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| Imps | |
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| Ancestored-Back Is the Overpresiding Spirit of This Poem | |
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| Refugees | |
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| Twentieth-Century Children (s): Blood-Kissing | |
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| Torture Boy's Watch, Burn Boy's Boat of Souls | |
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| Retro Lullaby | |
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| Law and Sensibility | |
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| The Bat | |
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| Lao Tzu Rebuked | |
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| The Summer I Spent Screwing in the Back Seats of Station Wagons | |
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| Rest | |
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| Lesson | |
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| Artist at Work | |
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| Heart Attack | |
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| Approximation 7 | |
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| Wrong Poem | |
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| Frankfort Laundromat | |
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| Your Visit to Drettinghob | |
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| Parkersburg | |
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| Zeno's Lemur | |
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| Desperados | |
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| Her Body | |
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| The Eternal Light of Talk | |
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| The Path to the Milky Way Leads Through Los Angeles | |
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| Song from the House of Death, or How to Make It Through to the End of a Relationship | |
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| This Is My Heart | |
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| The End | |
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| Our Other Sister | |
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| Sex and Poetry | |
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| Rowing | |
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| A Shave by the Ganges | |
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| My Double Non-Conversion | |
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| Swifts at Evening | |
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| The Party | |
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| Miscarriage and Echo | |
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| Birth of a Saint | |
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| Neither Here nor There | |
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| The Strong Yet Hollow Life Force of Hot Tub Jesus | |
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| Evel Knievel: The Fountain at Caesar's Palace (151 feet 6 inches) Las Vegas, Nevada, September 4th, 1968 | |
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| Blanket on Grass | |
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| Lullaby Rub | |
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| From "Thicket Group": A Power | |
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| Empty Spires | |
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| A Window | |
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| The Thicket | |
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| Ethics of Twilight | |
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| Colette | |
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| Days of 1968 | |
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| Ocean of Grass | |
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| Windchime | |
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| Lawrence | |
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| Benevolence | |
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| How It Adds Up | |
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| Teaching My Son to Drive | |
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| Integrals | |
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| The Third Party | |
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| Such Beauty | |
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| Model Father | |
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| Ooly Pop a Cow | |
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| Crossing New River | |
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| Home Fires | |
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| For Love | |
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| For Dora Maar | |
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| The Rapture | |
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| Do Not Duplicate This Key | |
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| CXXXII: The Quandary | |
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| Terzanelle of Kosovo Fields | |
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| No Turn on Red | |
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| Dialect | |
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| Goya's Saint Peter Repentant | |
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| You Lucky People | |
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| Unholy Sonnet | |
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| The Storm | |
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| The Fear | |
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| The Freight | |
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| Father's Day | |
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| Sacrament for My Penis | |
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| Elegy for a Bad Example | |
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| Nihilist Time | |
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| Raccoon Time | |
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| On the Day After Allen Ginsberg's Death a Woman Thinks of Me | |
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| Love Poem for an Enemy | |
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| The Turn | |
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| Black Swan | |
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| Elegy | |
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| Two Boys | |
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| Outside The Blue Nile | |
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| Queen Marie-Theresa and Nabo | |
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| Forgive and Live | |
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| Inviting the Moose: A Vision | |
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| Conspiracy Theory | |
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| November | |
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| Western Wars Mitigated by the Confucian Analects | |
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| Many Mansions | |
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| Georgia O'Keefe: American Icon | |
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| Emptying the Mind | |
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| Little Black Dino | |
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| Jack Benny | |
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| Nowhere to Mosh | |
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| Love Potion No. 9 | |
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| One of the Grim Reaper's Disguises | |
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| Indian Sign Language | |
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| Dead Skoonk | |
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| Old Friend in the Dark | |
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| I'm Still Alive | |
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| Failed Teachers | |
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| Sisters | |
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| A Tiny Man of Print | |
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| Capitalist Poem #38 | |
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| Capitalist Poem #36 | |
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| The Manatee | |
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| The Miami Beach Holocaust Memorial | |
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| Ghazal of the Better-Unbegun | |
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| Past All Understanding | |
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| The Gulf Between the Given and the Gift | |
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| Qua Qua Qua | |
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| We Take Our Children to Ireland | |
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| Marriage Dissolving in the Upstairs Room | |
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| These Same, These Many Birds | |
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| Because | |
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| Three Weeds | |
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| Words | |
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| Doppelganger | |
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| Pussy Willow (An Apology) | |
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| Girl Tearing Up Her Face | |
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| First-Generation Angels | |
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| from "Dahmer" | |
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| The Young Asian Women | |
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| Immigration Angel | |
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| Narcissus | |
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| Taking the Children Away | |
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| On Sitting | |
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| Bread, Meat, Greens, and Soap | |
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| Mona's Taco | |
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| Bill's Beans | |
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| Knitting, Crocheting, Sewing... | |
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| Ongoing | |
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| Deer Traffic | |
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| Electric Church | |
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| Fear in Style | |
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| St. Ives, Winter Night | |
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| Monkey Mind | |
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| Happy As I Am | |
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| The Old Religion | |
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| The Martyrdom of St. Sebastian | |
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| Alchemy | |
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| Samurai Song | |
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| The Green Piano | |
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| The Haunted Ruin | |
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| To Television | |
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| Group Portrait with Ukuleles | |
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| Fitful Angel | |
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| Table Prayer | |
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| The Bounty | |
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| Tilted Man, Tilted Woman | |
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| Damsels, I | |
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| Intact Woman | |
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| From the Life of Don Margarito | |
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| Writing from Memory | |
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| Some Extensions on the Sovereignty of Science | |
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| Versace | |
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| Question for the Magic Hour | |
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| Jung | |
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| Murder in the Good Land | |
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| Reiteration | |
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| Opus from Space | |
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| Come, Drink Here | |
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| Transplanting | |
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| Lover Release Agreement | |
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| Resurfaced | |
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| Quest of the Prell | |
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| Brief History of a Sentence | |
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| Rice County Soliloquy | |
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| "Why Talk When You Can Paint?" | |
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| Eve to Adam, in Retrospect | |
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| Seven Postcards from Dover | |
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| No Comparison | |
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| 10 April | |
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| Among the Musk Ox People | |
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| My Other Self | |
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| Against Self-Torment | |
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| Complete Semen Study | |
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| In the Sink | |
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| On the Day of Nixon's Funeral | |
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| My Mother's Funeral | |
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| Izzy | |
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| Delirious | |
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| Why I Won't Pierce My Ears | |
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| I am peeling four pink grapefruit | |
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| Wonders of the Invisible World | |
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| Story of a Marriage | |
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| Romeo and Juliet | |
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| The Book of Blessings | |
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| Illuminated Manuscript | |
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| The Talking Cure | |
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| The Displaced | |
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| The Extra | |
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| In Medias Res | |
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| The Holy Worm of Praise | |
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| The Zen of Crime | |
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| Whining Prairie | |
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| Miss Molly Rockin' in the House of Blue Light | |
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| Woman Circling Lake | |
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| Lateral Time | |
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| The Freezing Point of the Universe | |
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| Half the Music | |
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| Queen of the Night | |
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| Late Psalm | |
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| The Yawner | |
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| I Dream About My Dead | |
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| Newsreel | |
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| The Grid | |
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| Speaking Louder | |
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| Hairspray | |
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| The Family Man | |
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| Raisin Factory | |
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| Devising Your Own Time | |
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| Teaching English from an Old Composition Book | |
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| Late Confession | |
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| Practicing T'ai Chi Ch'uan | |
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| Posthuman | |
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| Outside St.-Remy-de-Provence | |
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| Searches | |
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| Merlin | |
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| Los Angeles, 1954 | |
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| I Know | |
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| Beanstalk | |
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| Because I Wanted to Write a Happy Poem, I Thought of Harry Caray's Dying | |
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| Confessional | |
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| The String Diamond | |
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| A Knock on the Door | |
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| Never Again the Same | |
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| The New Ergonomics | |
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| How the Pope Is Chosen | |
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| Exilium | |
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| Incident | |
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| Southbound Pullman, 1945 | |
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| The Alley Behind Ocean Drive | |
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| Road Tar | |
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| Erotic Energy | |
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| A Last Look Back | |
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| To the Reader: If You Asked Me | |
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| To the Reader: Polaroids | |
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| Decade | |
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| Calypso, Twilight | |
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| Neap Tide | |
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| Estrogen | |
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| Iron Brigade Highway | |
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| Night of the Moon | |
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| Conjuries in Amber | |
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| "Did That Really Happen?" | |
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| To Prove That We Existed Before You Were Born | |
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| Tone of Voice | |
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| Funktionslust | |
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| Biblical Also-Rans | |
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| One of the Wives of God | |
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| Elegy for Matthews | |
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| The Super | |
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| Into the Mouth of the Rat | |
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| One Enchanted Evening | |
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| Catholic | |
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| Prayer That the Rod of the Prede Stined Spouse May Blossom | |
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| Apology for and Further Explanation of an Attempt to Divert Accusations of Equivocation | |
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| Between Zero and Ten | |
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| Yad | |
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| The Drowning and the Drowned | |
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| Conundrum | |
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| Excavation Photo | |
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| Stalin's Library Card | |
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| The Room | |
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| The Conjure Woman | |
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| Note from the Stop-Gap Motor Inn | |
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| Floating Lady Retablo | |
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| Floating Lady Retablo | |
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| Handfishing Retablo | |
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| Handfishing Retablo | |
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| Rosesucker Retablo | |
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| Rosesucker Retablo | |
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| Today's Visibility | |
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| Howl Upone Eskaping, I Learne Mey Vehikle Is Not Sea-Worthie and Upone Mey Tragik Recapture and Longe Internmynt During Whyche I Wrighte These Words Thorough a Secret System Infolfing Mey Owne Blood | |
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| Lives of the Painters | |
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| Sunflower | |
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| Side Effects | |
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| Warhol Attends Roy Cohn's Final Birthday Party at the Palladium, June 1985 | |
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| Negative | |
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| Campbell's Black Bean Soup | |
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| Acknowledgments | |