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Prologue: The Politics of Narrative - Why I Am a Poet | |
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Stone Soup | |
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The Planet Krypton | |
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Chinoisserie | |
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Blonde Bombshell | |
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One Summer Hurricane Lynn Spawns Tornadoes as Far West as Ely | |
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The Night Man at the Blue Lite | |
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Outside Room Six | |
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Dreaming of Rio at Sixteen | |
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For Me at Sunday Sermons, the Serpent | |
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This Is the Truth | |
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Domestic Violence | |
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What the Keyhole Was | |
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Seizure | |
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Whites | |
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Drawing Rosie's Train Trip | |
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The Idol | |
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What Grieving Was | |
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What Ely Was | |
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A Red Kimono | |
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The Past | |
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Bella Roma | |
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Riddle | |
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Who Is She Kidding | |
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Self-Portrait at Eighteen | |
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We, the Poets of America | |
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Inspiration | |
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Heartsick | |
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On Waking after Dreaming of Raoul | |
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The Technology of Love | |
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Rebirth | |
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A Poem Like an Automobile Can Take You Anywhere | |
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Far | |
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Inspiration, Two | |
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Spite - Homage to Sylvia Plath | |
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Big Black Car | |
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The Out-of-Body Experience | |
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What Dying Was Like | |
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What Did You Expect? | |
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The Poet in Heaven | |
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What Heaven Is | |
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Homage to Dickinson | |
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The Dig | |
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Coda (in the Form of Notes) | |
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Frying Trout while Drunk | |
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The Sleeping | |
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Of Your Father's Indiscretions and the Train to California | |
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The Dig | |
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I Dream I Love You under the Pine, under the Poplar | |
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Berlin Interior with Jews, 1939 | |
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When Father Decided He Did Not Love Her Anymore | |
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Grandmother Zoltana, Tunisia, Early '50s - Two Photographs -Before Her Death and at the Funeral | |
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Ordinary Objects | |
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Dream about the Old Mosaic Found in a Syrian Orchard | |
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The Photograph of My Father at an Early Exhibit of Arshile Gorky | |
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The Photograph of Ramona Posing while Father Sketches Her in Charcoal | |
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Apology | |
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Self-Portrait | |
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The Artists | |
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Patient | |
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Of My Father before the War | |
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After Your Letter of Elegant Good-bye | |
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You Tell Me | |
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Desire | |
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Tourists | |
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She Is Six | |
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Discovering the Photograph of Lloyd, Earl, and Priscilla | |
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Inventing Father in Las Vegas | |
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Elegy Written in the Vowels of Her Name | |
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Enormous Leisure | |
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At the Magritte Exhibition | |
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Looking for the Old Rosebud Cemetery | |
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What I Know about the End of the Second World War | |
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On Returning to Carthage to Excavate an Ancient Sacrificial Site | |
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Kiss | |
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The Poet in the Garret in America | |