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| A Note on the Texts and Their Selection | |
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| The Door Stands Open | |
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| Dawns, 1932 | |
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| The Song, 1934 | |
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| Slow River, 1936 | |
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| Encounter, 1936 | |
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| A Book in the Ruins, 1941 | |
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| Campo dei Fiori, 1943 | |
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| Song of a Citizen, 1943 | |
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| A Poor Christian Looks at the Ghetto, 1943 | |
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| The World, 1943 | |
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| A Song on the End of the World, 1944 | |
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| Cafe, 1944 | |
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| Outskirts, 1944 | |
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| Flight, 1944 | |
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| from A Treatise on Poetry: III. The Spirit of History, 1939-1945 | |
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| In Warsaw, 1945 | |
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| Dedication, 1945 | |
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| Mid-Twentieth-Century Portrait, 1945 | |
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| Song on Porcelain, 1947 | |
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| Greek Portrait, 1948 | |
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| Earth, 1949 | |
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| Mittelbergheim, 1951 | |
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| Esse, 1954 | |
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| Album of Dreams, 1955 | |
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| No More, 1957 | |
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| Magpiety, 1958 | |
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| Throughout Our Lands, 1961 | |
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| Veni Creator, 1961 | |
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| Bobo's Metamorphosis, 1962 | |
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| I Sleep a Lot, 1962 | |
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| Elegy for N.N., 1963 | |
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| And the City Stood in Its Brightness, 1963 | |
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| To Robinson Jeffers, 1963 | |
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| Sentences, 1963-1965 | |
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| Window, 1965 | |
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| With Trumpets and Zithers, 1965 | |
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| Whiteness, 1966 | |
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| When the Moon, 1966 | |
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| On the Road, 1967 | |
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| Incantation, 1968 | |
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| Ars Poetica? 1968 | |
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| My Faithful Mother Tongue, 1968 | |
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| City Without a Name, 1968 | |
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| To Raja Rao, 1969 | |
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| So Little, 1969 | |
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| Seasons, 1971 | |
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| Gift, 1971 | |
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| From the Rising of the Sun, 1973-1974 | |
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| A Magic Mountain, 1975 | |
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| Temptation, 1975 | |
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| Secretaries, 1975 | |
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| Amazement, 1975 | |
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| Idea, 1976 | |
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| Notes, 1978 | |
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| The Separate Notebooks: A Mirrored Gallery | |
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| The Separate Notebooks: The Wormwood Star | |
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| Bypassing Rue Descartes, 1980 | |
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| Rivers, 1980 | |
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| After Paradise, 1981 | |
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| The Hooks of a Corset, 1981 | |
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| Annalena, 1981 | |
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| Yellow Bicycle, 1981 | |
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| Winter, 1982 | |
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| At Dawn, 1982 | |
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| The City, 1982 | |
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| Anka, 1983 | |
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| Theodicy, 1983 | |
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| Table I | |
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| Table II | |
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| My-ness, 1983 | |
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| "To find my home ...," 1981-1983 | |
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| In a Jar, 1985 | |
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| Mary Magdalen and I, 1985 | |
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| A Confession, 1985 | |
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| With Her, 1985 | |
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| 1945, 1985 | |
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| Fear-Dream (1918), 1985 | |
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| Six Lectures in Verse, 1985 | |
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| And Yet the Books, 1986 | |
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| On Parting with My Wife, Janina, 1986 | |
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| Blacksmith Shop, 1991 | |
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| Adam and Eve, 1991 | |
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| Linnaeus, 1991 | |
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| Mister Hanusevich, 1991 | |
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| The Thistle, the Nettle, 1991 | |
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| In Common, 1991 | |
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| Conversation with Jeanne, 1991 | |
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| On a Beach, 1991 | |
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| December I, 1991 | |
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| Meaning, 1991 | |
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| Kazia, 1991 | |
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| Capri, 1995 | |
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| A Certain Neighborhood, 1995 | |
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| A Meadow, 1995 | |
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| Realism, 1995 | |
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| House in Krasnogruda, 1995 | |
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| To Mrs. Professor in Defense of My Cat's Honor and Not Only, 1995 | |
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| This World, 1995 | |
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| In Szetejnie, 1995 | |
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| Watering Can, 1998 | |
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| From My Dentist's Window, 1998 | |
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| After, 1999 | |
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| My Grandfather Sigismund Kunat, 2000 | |
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| What I Learned from Jeanne Hersch, 2000 | |
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| Pastels by Degas, 2000 | |
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| Unde Malum, 2000 | |
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| Rays of Dazzling Light, 2000 | |
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| Late Ripeness, 2000 | |
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| If There Is No God, 2002 | |
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| Classmate, 2002 | |
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| High Terraces, 2002 | |
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| Notebook, 2002 | |
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| Orpheus and Eurydice, 2003 | |
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| Biographical Note | |
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| Index of Poems and Translators | |