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Foreword | |
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Introduction | |
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The Obedient Girl | |
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Fear | |
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Fear II | |
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Night | |
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Chance | |
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Charisma | |
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The Paparazzi | |
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Meeting the Angel | |
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Kiss | |
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Art | |
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My Number | |
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Dancing the Tarantella at the County Farm | |
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By the Nape | |
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Apollo | |
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Affirmative Action Blues (1993) | |
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Equinox | |
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Manners | |
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Understory | |
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Look Here | |
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Soon | |
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Bilingual Sestina | |
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Estel | |
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The Dance Pianist | |
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The Man in a Shell | |
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The Kiss | |
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When I Think About America Sometimes (I Think of Ralph Kramden) | |
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A History of Sexual Preference | |
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The Crypto-Jews | |
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Late Words for My Sister | |
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Dog-God | |
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Erections | |
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Your Character Is Your Destiny | |
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Choose Your Garden | |
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Lovely | |
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Vespertilio | |
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Lawrence and Edison in New Jersey: 1923 | |
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Depth of Field | |
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After-Image | |
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Act One | |
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How the Last Act Begins | |
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Puzzle Pieces | |
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Fog | |
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--Cassiopeia at Noon | |
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Sleeplessness | |
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Demographics | |
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From The El Paso Times "World of Women" | |
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Heart | |
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Her Habit | |
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Prescient | |
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Housekeeping | |
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Lumens | |
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Photo Genic | |
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Spirit Papers | |
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Empress Shotoku Invents Printing in 770 | |
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Composed Near the Bay Bridge | |
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Beijing Spring | |
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Autumn Leaves | |
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hag riding | |
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blake | |
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to michal | |
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what did she know, when did she know it | |
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Photographs of My Father | |
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Letter from Home in Spanish | |
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from Three Poems in Memory of Mama (Grandmother) Cold as Heaven | |
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The Border | |
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Lies | |
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Out of My Own Pocket | |
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Like Her Body The World | |
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My Mother in Three Acts | |
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Estrangement | |
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Hotel de Dream | |
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Childhood in Jacksonville, Florida | |
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Prayer to the Muse of Ordinary Life | |
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After Reading Reznikoff | |
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In the Locker Room | |
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In the middle of Priest Lake | |
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Blueprints | |
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Bookstore | |
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Black Boys Play the Classics | |
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For Black Women Who Are Afraid | |
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For Sister Sue Ellen and Her Special Messenger | |
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Rough Music | |
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Akhmatova | |
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Five Smooth Stones | |
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Rosa | |
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History | |
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Exit | |
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Blue Days | |
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Gotterdammerung | |
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Morbid | |
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A Night Without Stars | |
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No Moon | |
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The Corpses | |
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Halfway Through the Book I'm Writing | |
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In English in a Poem | |
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Now and Again: An Autobiography of Basket | |
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The Annunciation in an Initial R | |
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Moving & St Rage | |
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Revisionary Instruments I | |
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She Attempts to Tell the Truth About True Romance | |
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West Texas Rain Journal | |
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Red Clay | |
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Elegy | |
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The Testimony of Light | |
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The Garden Shukkei-en | |
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= = | |
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Wonder Bread | |
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Take: A Roman Wedding | |
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Trace, In Unison | |
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Fresh Stain | |
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Valentine Delivered by a Raven | |
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Un Extrano | |
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Siren | |
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The Nature of Suffering | |
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Saints | |
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Housebound | |
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Lacrimae Rerum | |
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From the Boat | |
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The Ground Beneath Us | |
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And Yet | |
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My Bomb | |
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Swallower | |
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Rebirth | |
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Thinking | |
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The Guardian Angel of Not Feeling | |
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Willow in Spring Wind: A Showing | |
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Of the Ever-Changing Agitation in the Air | |
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Saints' Logic | |
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Line Drive Caught by the Grace of God | |
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Mother Ruin | |
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The Limits of Desire | |
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Stuff | |
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Fish Tea Rice | |
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The Tree Falling in a Vacant Forest | |
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The Unknowing | |
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The Boy | |
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Twelfth Floor West | |
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Invocation | |
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Broceliande | |
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Still Life in Garden | |
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Shells | |
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On That Mountain | |
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Ealcon | |
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Mutability | |
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A Boat Down the River of Yellow Silt | |
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Radiator | |
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Clippings | |
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Annotation in Her Last Court Diary | |
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For Beauty | |
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The Fifth Amendment | |
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January Ovaries | |
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The Mysteries | |
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The Arroyo | |
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Male Nipples | |
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The Lives of the Heart | |
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On the Beach | |
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Not-Yet | |
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Painting | |
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Each Happiness Ringed by Lions | |
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Nothing | |
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Tear | |
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Map | |
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Depressive Episode | |
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Whistle | |
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Fantasie Metropolitan | |
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Basic Science | |
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Bathroom | |
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Starlet | |
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My Broken Heart | |
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The Attic | |
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How Some of It Happened | |
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The Kiss | |
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What the Living Do | |
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Red Velvet Jacket | |
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The Window | |
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Viper Light | |
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This Poem | |
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Peaceable Kingdom | |
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Soul Train | |
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Wedding Party | |
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Song | |
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Petition | |
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Botticelli's St. Sebastian | |
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Wild Turkeys: The Dignity of the Damned | |
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Dutch Interiors | |
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Having It Out with Melancholy | |
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August Rain, After Haying | |
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The Bolt | |
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Beautiful Days | |
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Twelve O'Clock | |
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Reunion | |
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Fearful Women | |
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Ingathering | |
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Election Day, 1984 | |
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Early Thoughts of Winter | |
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Almost Spring, Driving Home, Reciting Hopkins | |
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October, Yellowstone Park | |
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Credo | |
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Meanwhile the Turtle | |
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Werner Herzog 68 / Iowa City 88 | |
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How Things Bear Their Telling | |
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This Close | |
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What I Wouldn't Do | |
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Homecoming | |
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The Thief | |
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Blues: Late August | |
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The Angels | |
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from Lessons 12. Given What Manages | |
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The Acorn | |
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After the Storm, August | |
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Keep Going | |
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Then | |
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Past All Understanding | |
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Sizing | |
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Three To's and an Oi | |
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Etymological Dirge | |
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Ghazal of the Better-Unbegun | |
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Not Falling | |
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Peace Studies | |
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All quail to the wallowing | |
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Outsider: Minnie Evans | |
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Bedrooms | |
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Genius of Fog at Ecola Creek Mouth | |
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Giants | |
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Sonnet Against Nuclear Weapons | |
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Foundered Star | |
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The Grove at Nemi | |
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Golden Bough: The Feather Palm | |
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Last Chance for the Tarzan Holler | |
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Losing My Sight | |
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Statues | |
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The Late-Born Daughters | |
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Happy and Unhappy Families I | |
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Happy and Unhappy Families II | |
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Animals Are Entering Our Lives | |
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House | |
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For the Reader (Blank Book) | |
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Self-Portrait as Somebody Else | |
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After I Was Dead | |
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Like This | |
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Miracles | |
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At the School for the Gifted | |
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Blue Rose | |
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How I Discovered Poetry | |
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Juneteenth | |
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Chosen | |
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The Sacrament of Poverty | |
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Lovesong | |
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A Baby Is Born Out of a White Owl's Forehead--1972 | |
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I--Towards a Definition | |
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Mysteries of Small Houses | |
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Steps | |
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Across the Bay | |
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Vocabulary of Dearness | |
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I Still Have Everything You Gave Me | |
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Fuel | |
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First | |
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Her First Week | |
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Lifelong | |
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The Promise | |
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Phantom Haiku/Silent Film | |
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Ghazal: Comet | |
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Villanelle from a Sentence in a Poet's Brief Biography | |
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The Studio (Homage to Alice Neel) | |
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The Boys, the Broom Handle, the Retarded Girl | |
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from The Mastectomy Poems | |
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The Bridge | |
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Wintering | |
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Healing | |
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Millennial Polka | |
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An Early Afterlife | |
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Agoraphobia | |
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Self-Portrait | |
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Why I Am Not a Buddhist | |
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The Purr | |
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The Fare | |
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Matins | |
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For Edward Hopper, from the Floor | |
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Lament in Good Weather | |
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For I Have Taught the Japanese | |
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"I've Been Around: It Gets Me Nowhere" | |
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One Is One | |
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The Story After the Story | |
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"Trois Petits Tours et Puis..." | |
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Winter | |
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Shades | |
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The White Star | |
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Eating Clay | |
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Testimonial | |
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Before John and Maria's Wedding | |
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Volunteers | |
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Fast Car on Nebraska I-80: Visiting Teacher | |
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Behind Me | |
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Bare Windows | |
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Inside Father's Pockets | |
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All the Soups | |
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The Robe | |
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Letters to a Young Poet | |
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In Those Years | |
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What Kind of Times Are These | |
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Controlling Factors | |
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School of Denial | |
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Minor Figure | |
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Stopwatch | |
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Why Isn't It All More Marked | |
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The Woman Who Wrote Too Much | |
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Surfaces | |
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If She Only Had One Minute | |
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Elephant Rocks | |
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A Rainbow Over the Seine | |
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Distance | |
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Absolute September | |
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Liam | |
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from New Time | |
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False Move | |
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Crossing the Square | |
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Notes from Underground: W. H. Auden on the Lexington Avenue IRT | |
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Two Trees | |
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Malleus Maleficarum 4 | |
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Tagging | |
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Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death | |
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The Man Who Killed Himself to Avoid August | |
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Welcome to Ithaca | |
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The Catch | |
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Mother Tongue | |
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At Fifty | |
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The Faithful Daughter Dreams of Spring Break While Installing a Bird Feeder for Her Mother by a Window in the Courtyard of Safe Harbour | |
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A Heart with Little or No Bedrock for Anchor | |
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Late Night Radio | |
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Long Distance | |
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To the Dregs | |
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Something to Say | |
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The Past | |
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All Souls' Day | |
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Coward | |
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Doomsday | |
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The Search | |
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Journey | |
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Leaf | |
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Golden | |
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Worldling | |
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The Robed Heart | |
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The Rock | |
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August | |
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What It's For | |
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Martin | |
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Against Silence | |
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The Arbor 1937 | |
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Hummingbirds | |
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Earth Quake | |
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Up There | |
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Reading | |
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So Be It | |
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Absent from Dances, 1925 | |
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Fig Tree | |
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Gustave Thibon, How Simone Weil Appeared to Me/2 | |
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Gustave Thibon, How Simone Weil Appeared to Me/3 | |
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Gustave Thibon, How Simone Weil Appeared to Me/4 | |
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Gustave Thibon, How Simone Weil Appeared to Me/5 | |
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Intact | |
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The Goddess Corn Finds Her Dress in Disarray | |
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Appomattox | |
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Epithalamion | |
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Purple Loosestrife | |
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Rouge | |
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Outdoor Chums in the Forest | |
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Tea Mind | |
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Kerosene | |
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Private Airplane | |
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My Taste for Trash | |
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Horse | |
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Rose Quartz | |
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1945 | |
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Resolve | |
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X | |
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The One You Wanted to Be Is the One You Are | |
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The First Station | |
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The Under Voice | |
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American River Sky Alcohol Father | |
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Death Asphodel | |
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Yield Everything, Force Nothing | |
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One Strategy for Loving the World | |
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Late Flight of the Love God | |
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Poets in Late Winter | |
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from Kyrie | |
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Look | |
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So Get Over It, Honey | |
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Baltazar Beats His Tutor at Scrabble | |
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Hagar | |
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His Long Home | |
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Song | |
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Man, That Is Born of a Woman | |
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Learning from the Movies | |
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Thoughts While Walking | |
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Surgical Moves | |
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He or She That's Got the Limb, That Holds Me Out on It | |
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Song for the Spirit of Natalie Going | |
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That Been to Me My Lives Light and Saviour | |
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You, Failed Pronoun | |
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Judgment | |
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Her Body Is Private | |
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All the Wide Grin of Him | |
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Abstraction | |
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from Deepstep Come Shining | |
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Contributors | |
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Acknowledgments | |
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Index | |