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| Introduction | |
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| Names | |
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| Pokeberries | |
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| Beets | |
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| Magnalia Christi Americana | |
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| daughters | |
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| fury | |
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| Dear Mama | |
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| Linked | |
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| I Go Back to May 1937 | |
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| The Portrait | |
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| Cracked Portraits | |
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| Those Were the Days | |
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| The Substitute | |
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| The Liar | |
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| Daddy, We Called You | |
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| Sangre 24: A Legacy | |
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| Working Class | |
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| from attic | |
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| Always Running | |
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| Company Outing | |
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| Tending | |
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| I cannot write a poem to bless all the givers of pain | |
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| Family | |
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| Why the Violin Is Better | |
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| My Aunts | |
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| My Son Is Worried About Me | |
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| The Word You Did Not Speak | |
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| Words for My Daughter from the Asylum | |
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| My Mad Son Helps Me Into Heaven | |
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| The Children | |
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| Mother's Voice | |
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| Singing Lessons | |
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| photo poem | |
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| Saying Farewell to My Father | |
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| The Birthday - August 25, 1980 | |
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| Late | |
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| Hotel Nights with My Mother | |
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| Legacy | |
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| Apples | |
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| Day Worker | |
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| Breakfast | |
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| Shelling Shrimp | |
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| The Last Lesson | |
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| Poem for My Father | |
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| Sports Heroes, Cops, and Lace | |
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| The Riddle of Noah | |
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| Baptisms | |
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| Freedom Candy | |
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| The Boots of Alfred Bettingdorf | |
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| Say What? | |
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| Sangre 14: Sterling, Colorado | |
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| The Loss of a Culture | |
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| Coffee | |
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| Horns on Your Head | |
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| The Middle Classes | |
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| Right Off the Bat | |
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| French Girls Are Fast | |
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| My Rough Skinned Grandmother | |
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| Kemo Sabe | |
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| Dictionary of Terminology | |
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| A New Story | |
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| The Poets | |
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| Seven Horses | |
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| The Last Wild Horses in Kentucky | |
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| Learning Silence | |
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| Home Training | |
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| Half-Breed's Song | |
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| Mestizo | |
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| Tangerine | |
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| Between Holi and Halloween | |
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| Strange Country | |
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| Roomers, rumors | |
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| Language Difficulties | |
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| The Welcome Table | |
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| High School: San Martin | |
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| On the Subway | |
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| In the Elementary School Choir | |
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| Sixth Grade | |
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| The Jacket | |
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| Ladies' Choice | |
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| As Children Together | |
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| The Silence That Widened | |
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| Caroline | |
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| Poem for Anthony, Otherwise Known as Head | |
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| from Personal and Impersonal Landscapes | |
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| The Dance at St. Gabriel's | |
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| Yellow Roses | |
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| High School Reunion | |
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| The Story of My Life | |
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| Wearing of the Green | |
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| The Boy Without a Flag | |
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| Early Snow | |
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| Butch Traynor | |
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| The Weird Kid | |
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| Sterling Williams' Nosebleed | |
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| Losing Faith | |
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| Altar Boy | |
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| School of Night | |
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| No Consolation | |
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| The Way of the Cross | |
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| Teaching English from an Old Composition Book | |
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| Among Children | |
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| Our Room | |
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| Chinese in Academia | |
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| For Sal Sanjamino: On His Retirement | |
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| Poem on the First Day of School | |
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| Big World, Little Man | |
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| A Long Way | |
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| The First Day | |
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| Pennies | |
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| Going to School | |
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| Shame | |
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| Disc 'n Dat | |
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| The Captain of the Safeties | |
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| Senior Will | |
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| My Father's Love Letters | |
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| Mortal Sins | |
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| Training Bra | |
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| The One Girl at the Boys' Party | |
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| The Boy | |
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| Practicing | |
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| from Drops of This Story | |
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| Playing with Dolls | |
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| Rice and Beans | |
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| Defining Us | |
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| Imagining Drag | |
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| Choice in Colored Rain | |
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| Graffiti | |
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| The Girls | |
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| Aunt Dorothy | |
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| Aunt Rose | |
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| The Accordion | |
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| Uncle Earl and Guns | |
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| Legacy | |
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| The Politics of Buddy | |
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| "You know what I'm saying?" | |
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| The Robe | |
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| Acupuncture and Cleansing at Forty-eight | |
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| Garden State | |
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| Thelonious | |
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| Robin's Nest | |
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| Real Life | |
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| Jetties Were the Bridges I Crossed | |
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| Rock'n'Roll | |
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| Sally | |
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| Painting the Christmas Trees | |
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| City Lights | |
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| There I Was One Day | |
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| An American in Trapani | |
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| Made You Mine, America | |
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| Ode to Elizabeth | |
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| from Krik? Krak! | |
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| from This Past Decade and the Next | |
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| Second-Grade Angel | |
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| Miz Rosa Rides the Bus | |
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| The Summer of Black Widows | |
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| Tourists | |
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| Like Mexicans | |
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| American Milk | |
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| Contributors | |
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| Index | |