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| Preface | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Deserter (1973) | |
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| The Anniversary (1973) | |
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| New Crops for a Free Man (1973) | |
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| Everything: Eloy, Arizona 1956 (1973) | |
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| Wallpaper (1995) | |
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| Redwing Sonnets (1995) | |
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| An Improvisation for the Stately Dwelling (1979) | |
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| An Improvisation for Jerald Bullis (1979) | |
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| Above the Fray Is Only Thin Air (1997) | |
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| Widespread Implications (1997) | |
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| Spit (1997) | |
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| Breaking the Rock Down (1984) | |
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| Evolving Similarities (1995) | |
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| Veils of Prayer (1995) | |
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| The Nothing That Is (1995) | |
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| Twilight (1995) | |
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| Invisible Hand (1992) | |
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| North Star (1993) | |
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| Crowdoll (1993) | |
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| Starwork (1993) | |
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| Business Personals (1977) | |
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| The Couple in the Next Room (1977) | |
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| Variant (1977) | |
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| Saying It to Keep It from Happening (1977) | |
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| Lost and Found and Lost Again (1977) | |
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| The Archipelago (1993) | |
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| My Philosophy of Life (1994) | |
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| Operators Are Standing By (1995) | |
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| Chapter II, Book 35 (1995) | |
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| My Name Is Dimitri (1995) | |
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| The Walkways (1995) | |
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| Limited Liability (1995) | |
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| A History of Sexual Preference (1996) | |
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| Sad Sestina (1996) | |
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| Why We Fear the Amish (1999) | |
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| Sonnet to the Imagination (1999) | |
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| Midlife (1999) | |
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| Life Forms (1999) | |
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| The Self and the Mulberry (1976) | |
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| Someone Is Probably Dead (1981) | |
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| A True Story (1982) | |
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| How I Got the Words (1982) | |
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| To Be (1984) | |
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| Street Fair: The Quartet (1989) | |
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| Marco Polo (1989) | |
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| The Age of Correggio and the Carracci (1989) | |
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| Freud's Butcher (1989) | |
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| Memories (1994) | |
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| Six Sonnets (1998) | |
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| The Alcoholic in the 3rd Week of the 3rd Treatment (1975) | |
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| [O all the problems other people face] (1975) | |
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| 4th Weekend (1975) | |
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| The Recognition (1975) | |
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| 5th Tuesday (1975) | |
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| Phase Four (1975) | |
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| Group (1975) | |
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| Dry Eleven Months (1975) | |
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| Snowbanks North of the House (1975) | |
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| The Exhausted Bug (1993) | |
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| Two Ramages for Old Masters (1993) | |
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| A Dream of William Carlos Williams (1993) | |
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| On the Oregon Coast (1993) | |
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| The Gaiety of Form (1993) | |
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| My Father's Neek (1993) | |
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| Sixty-Six (1994) | |
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| Fog-Talk (1994) | |
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| To Fat Boy, The Bomb (1989) | |
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| After The Little Mariner (1989) | |
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| On Earth (1989) | |
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| Next to the Cafe Chaos (1989) | |
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| The Pealing (1989) | |
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| Interview with an Alchemist in the New Age (1990) | |
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| Chapter One (1992) | |
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| No, No Nostalgia! (1994) | |
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| Schadenfreude (1994) | |
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| Feminine Intuition (1996) | |
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| I Was a Phony Baloney! (1996) | |
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| Marriage (1996) | |
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| The Presocratic, Surfing, Breathing Cosmology Blues ... (1996) | |
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| b (1975) | |
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| Drooling Madness at St. Liz (1975) | |
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| not much singing (1993) | |
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| The Personal Histories ("More Darkness") (1983) | |
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| Foolish Thing (1983) | |
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| My Aunt and the Sun (1984) | |
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| The Dogs on the Cliffs (1984) | |
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| [I have a silence in the rain] (1986) | |
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| 2 Poems on the Same Theme (1986) | |
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| Breathless Storm (1986) | |
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| Meditation Brought About by George Bogin's Translation of Jules Supervielle's Poem "The Sea" (1998) | |
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| Weather (1998) | |
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| The Cows at Night (1974) | |
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| Paragraph 23 (1974) | |
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| Paragraph 36 (1974) | |
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| Essay on Death (1988) | |
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| Crucifixion (1989) | |
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| Quality of Wine (1993) | |
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| 8 Poems from "The Truth About God" (1993) | |
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| Apology (1978) | |
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| Threnody for Sunrise (1981) | |
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| Threnody for Sunset (1981) | |
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| Wild Provoke of the Endurance Sky (1994) | |
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| Caught in the Swamp (1994) | |
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| White Fish in Reeds (1994) | |
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| Grow (1994) | |
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| Data (1994) | |
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| As the Human Village Prepares for Its Fate (1992) | |
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| [Before dawn there you lie] (1992) | |
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| Time (1992) | |
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| On the Beach (1995) | |
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| shapeshifter poems (1987) | |
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| [here is another bone to pick with you] (1987) | |
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| [cruelty. don't talk to me about cruelty] (1987) | |
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| the lost women (1987) | |
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| sorrow song (1987) | |
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| january 1991 (1993) | |
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| [won't you celebrate with me] (1993) | |
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| night vision (1993) | |
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| Beckon (1996) | |
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| Beauty and the Beast (1997) | |
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| The Masters (1997) | |
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| The World (1999) | |
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| 30th Year Dream (1989) | |
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| There Is No Real Peace in the World (1978) | |
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| litany (1992) | |
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| Buffalo Evening (1983) | |
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| Be of Good Cheer (1983) | |
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| This House (1993) | |
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| The Place (1993) | |
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| Parade (1993) | |
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| Echo (1993) | |
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| The Road (1993) | |
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| Time (1993) | |
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| If You Need a Reason (1996) | |
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| Tourism in the Late 20th Century (1996) | |
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| Eagles (1987) | |
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| Weeds (1988) | |
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| The One (1988) | |
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| The Three (1988) | |
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| Basics (1988) | |
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| Frenchie (1982) | |
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| Caverns of Darkness (1983) | |
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| Tomatoes (1986) | |
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| Allegorical Matters (1995) | |
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| Nouns of Assemblage (1995) | |
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| Demeter, Waiting (1995) | |
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| Wiederkehr (1995) | |
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| An Annual of the Dark Physics (1984) | |
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| Hummingbirds (1984) | |
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| Danse Macabre (1984) | |
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| Sanctuary (1986) | |
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| The Peace of Lodi (1987) | |
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| Trakl (1987) | |
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| Poem ("A mule kicked out in the trees. An early") (1987) | |
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| Anagram Born of Madness at Czernowitz, 12 November 1920 (1989) | |
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| Theory of Tragedy (1994) | |
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| Swing Shift Blues (1999) | |
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| Nomenclature (1999) | |
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| Poem for Elliot Carter on His 90th Birthday (1999) | |
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| Barefoot Homiletics, After Wittgenstein and Boswell (1999) | |
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| American Variation on How Rilke Loved a Princess and Got to Stay in Her Castle (1999) | |
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| Drunken Memories of Anne Sexton (1999) | |
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| What They Wanted (1990) | |
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| Because You Mentioned the Spiritual Life (1996) | |
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| Amagideon; or When Lee Andrews and the Hearts Sang Only for Me (1986) | |
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| Innocency or Not Song X (1988) | |
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| Country or Western Music (1988) | |
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| Chart Indent (1988) | |
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| The Immortal Picture (1988) | |
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| The Blunting (1988) | |
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| The Technology of Spring (1986) | |
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| She (1998) | |
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| Homage to Sharon Stone (1998) | |
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| Elsewhere (1998) | |
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| Whatever Became Of: Freud (1991) | |
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| Callas (1991) | |
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| Oh, the Gingkos (1991) | |
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| Return (1980) | |
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| Ourselves or Nothing (1981) | |
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| The Hug (1982) | |
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| Monologue at the Chinook Bar and Grill (1987) | |
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| A Sinking Feeling (1991) | |
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| A Fan Letter (1996) | |
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| Breath (1980) | |
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| We Say (1980) | |
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| The Ruined Motel (1980) | |
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| Elephant Hunt in Guadalajara (1980) | |
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| Pewter (1980) | |
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| Getting Ready (1982) | |
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| The Revolution (1982) | |
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| Prospero Listens to the Night (1982) | |
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| To See if Something Comes Next (1994) | |
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| The White Heart of God (1994) | |
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| No Way Back to the Past (1979) | |
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| Grim Skeleton (1979) | |
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| The Charnel Ground (1994) | |
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| Who Eats Who? (1994) | |
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| Not Dead Yet (1994) | |
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| Yiddishe Kopf (1994) | |
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| A Thief Stole This Poem (1994) | |
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| Homeless Compleynt (1997) | |
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| Aubade (1998) | |
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| The New Life (1998) | |
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| Unwritten Law (1998) | |
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| Roman Study (1998) | |
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| Condo (1998) | |
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| The Winged Horse (1998) | |
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| Mutable Earth (1998) | |
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| Eurydice (1998) | |
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| In the Jury Room, in Pain (1983) | |
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| Birthday Cake (1983) | |
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| Sentences After Defence of Poetry (1983) | |
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| [Connary, Blodgett, Day, Hapgood] (1983) | |
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| Ballade of the Moment After (1983) | |
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| [Woman eternal my muse, lean toward me] (1983) | |
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| From Sentences for Matthew Ready, Series II (1983) | |
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| A Gravestone, August 8, 1968 (1983) | |
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| [It was good when you were here,] (1983) | |
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| Breakdancing (1986) | |
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| Underneath (1) (1997) | |
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| Underneath (2) (1997) | |
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| Underneath (3) (1997) | |
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| For One Must Want/To Shut the Other's Gaze (1997) | |
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| Underneath (7) (1997) | |
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| The Clapping (1993) | |
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| The Edge of Something (1993) | |
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| What Is Kept (1993) | |
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| Fishing in the Keep of Silence (1993) | |
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| Past Perfect (1993) | |
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| Official Love Story (1993) | |
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| The Advance of the Grizzly (1992) | |
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| Red Dye (1992) | |
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| You Can Discover (1992) | |
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| Motion Pictures: 4 (1994) | |
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| Motion Pictures: 15 (1997) | |
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| To a Waterfowl (1973) | |
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| Eating the Pig (1976) | |
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| What the Water Knows (1993) | |
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| Another Duffer (1994) | |
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| Abstract (1994) | |
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| The Woman Who Fell from the Sky (1994) | |
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| A Postcolonial Tale (1994) | |
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| Letters to Yesenin (1973) | |
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| A Pact (1974) | |
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| Now Winter Nights (1974) | |
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| Elm (1974) | |
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| Elegy: Residence on Earth (1974) | |
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| To Phil Dow, in Oregon (1974) | |
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| Spring Rain (1983) | |
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| An Iron Spike (1983) | |
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| From the Republic of Conscience (1987) | |
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| A Shooting Script (1987) | |
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| The Disappearing Island (1987) | |
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| Fuselage Installation (1991) | |
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| The Weaning of Furniture-Nutrition (1995) | |
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| Hallucinogenic Bullfighter (1995) | |
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| Dark Existence (1988) | |
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| Every Life (1988) | |
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| Little Furnace (1988) | |
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| Black Series (1988) | |
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| Milena Jesenska (1998) | |
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| Tristan Tzara (1998) | |
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| The Painting (1991) | |
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| The Tremor (1991) | |
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| The Weeping (1991) | |
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| Osiris (1983) | |
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| At Night (1983) | |
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| That Falling (1983) | |
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| Invocation (1983) | |
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| Ars Poetica (1983) | |
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| Kinda Blue: Miles Davis Died Today (1994) | |
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| Crossings (1993) | |
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| Return: Buffalo (1993) | |
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| Chambered Nautilus (1993) | |
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| Some Walks With You (1982) | |
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| Vocational Guidance, with Special Reference to the Annunciation of Simone Martini (1975) | |
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| Silence Wager Stories (1991) | |
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| Letter to Gale from Ovando (1976) | |
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| Letter to Hill from St. Ignatius (1976) | |
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| Letter to Blessing from Missoula (1976) | |
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| Letter to Oberg from Pony (1976) | |
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| Letter to Goldbarth from Big Fork (1976) | |
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| Letter to Haislip from Hot Springs (1976) | |
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| Letter to Birch from Deer Lodge (1976) | |
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| Letter to Libbey from St. Regis (1976) | |
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| In Your Dream After Falling in Love (1976) | |
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| In Your Racing Dream (1976) | |
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| Each Day (1972) | |
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| The Pit (1972) | |
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| Crystal Chandeliers (1972) | |
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| Home (1987) | |
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| In Memory of My Friend the Bassoonist John Lenox (1984) | |
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| To the New World (1998) | |
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| Blue Diamond (1998) | |
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| Gravity and Grace (1998) | |
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| The Fundamental Project of Technology (1984) | |
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| The Waking (1985) | |
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| The Pen (1994) | |
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| Ditches (1989) | |
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| The Rat (1989) | |
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| I'm Sending You Saint Francis Preaching to the Birds (1989) | |
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| A Poem to Galway Kinnell (1973) | |
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| A Poem for a Certain Lady on Her 33rd Birthday (1973) | |
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| The Bones of My Father (1973) | |
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| My Uncle Is My Honor and a Guest in My House (1975) | |
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| Once on a Night in the Delta: A Report from Hell (1983) | |
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| A black poet leaps to his death (1983) | |
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| On the Removal of the Fascist American Right from Power (1986) | |
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| Eat Helen B Happy (1986) | |
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| Genesis II (1986) | |
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| Monodrama (1999) | |
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| Save As: Salvation (1999) | |
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| Mrs. Frye and the Pencilsharpener (1999) | |
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| Winter Regrets (1999) | |
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| A Comic Look at Damocles (1999) | |
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| A New Guide (1994) | |
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| Captain Amasa Delano's Dilemma (1996) | |
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| Cante Jondo (1996) | |
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| Forgive and Live (1996) | |
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| Homage to a Bellhop (1996) | |
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| Flexible (1997) | |
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| Old House Blues (1999) | |
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| Hi (1999) | |
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| Fictions (1999) | |
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| Hay (1992) | |
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| The Layers (1979) | |
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| Passing Through (1985) | |
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| The Round (1985) | |
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| Hornworm: Summer Reverie (1995) | |
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| Hornworm: Autumn Lamentation (1995) | |
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| Aubade (1978) | |
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| Here and There (1980) | |
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| Revelry in Black-and-White (1990) | |
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| Untoward (1990) | |
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| Procedure (1990) | |
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| Gesture and Flight (1990) | |
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| What Could Happen (1993) | |
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| The Lovers (1993) | |
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| A Dream of Mimesis (1998) | |
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| Dreaming of Hair (1984) | |
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| The Gift (1984) | |
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| The Malice of Innocence (1972) | |
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| Woman Alone (1975) | |
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| The Life of Art (1988) | |
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| Ikon: The Harrowing of Hell (1989) | |
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| Stele (I-II c. B.C.) (1990) | |
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| One December Night ... (1990) | |
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| The Hymn (1994) | |
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| For Those Whom the Gods Love Less (1994) | |
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| On a Drawing by Flavio (1976) | |
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| The Red Shirt (1976) | |
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| 1974: My Story in a Late Style of Fire (1982) | |
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| There Are Two Worlds (1983) | |
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| Family Romance (1983) | |
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| Two Variations on a Theme by Kobayashi (1985) | |
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| February (1994) | |
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| Responsibility (1994) | |
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| The Organist's Black Carnation (1985) | |
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| The Architect Monk (1985) | |
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| Cuauhtemoc (1997) | |
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| Year's End (1997) | |
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| The Hand (1997) | |
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| Poem: Tears, Spray and Steam (1973) | |
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| Shifting Colors (1976) | |
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| The Wordsworths: William and Dorothy (1989) | |
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| Thrombosis Trombone (1989) | |
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| The Creature Has a Purpose (1989) | |
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| A Little Tooth (1989) | |
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| Commercial Leech Farming Today (1997) | |
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| Funeral (1973) | |
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| Bruce and Nina (1973) | |
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| Little Girls Posing All Dressed Up (1973) | |
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| The Jefferson Company (1973) | |
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| All the Same (1973) | |
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| Poem in Three Parts (1987) | |
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| To Go Through Life Is to Walk Across a Field (1987) | |
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| Poem With Two Seasons Right Now (1987) | |
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| Returning in Wind and Drizzle to My Home (1987) | |
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| November Woods (1987) | |
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| Losing Myself (1987) | |
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| To the Ocean (1987) | |
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| Good Company (1982) | |
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| Unrelenting Flood (1982) | |
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| Descriptive Passages (1982) | |
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| The Skull of the Horse (1978) | |
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| Night Meeting (1989) | |
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| A Visit to the House of the Poet--Nicaragua, 1987--Homage to Ruben Dario on His Birthday (1989) | |
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| Longing (1989) | |
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| Working in Darkness (1989) | |
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| Reading by Mechanic Light (1989) | |
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| End of a Season (1989) | |
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| Advertisements (1989) | |
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| Half Measures (1989) | |
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| The Language of the Dead (1989) | |
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| After You Left (1985) | |
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| La Guardia, the Story (1993) | |
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| Delphi, Coming Around the Corner (1994) | |
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| Nocturno de Washington (1993) | |
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| Two Masks Unearthed in Bulgaria (1980) | |
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| John and Anne (1980) | |
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| Ideogram (1980) | |
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| The American Living-room: A Tract (1984) | |
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| A Calling (1999) | |
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| Feast Day (1999) | |
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| The Marfa Lights (1999) | |
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| Tide Line Garden (1999) | |
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| Glassy Sea (1999) | |
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| Migrants by Night (1999) | |
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| Any Two Wheels (1987) | |
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| August Zero (1987) | |
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| The Impossible (1993) | |
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| Encounter (1977) | |
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| Tidings (1977) | |
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| Elegy for N.N. (1981) | |
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| In Szetejnie (1995) | |
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| From Lithuania, After Fifty-Two Years (1995) | |
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| House in Krasnogruda (1995) | |
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| Report (1995) | |
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| Miami Beach (1984) | |
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| The New York Notebooks (1984) | |
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| An Exchange of Hats (1979) | |
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| The Dog (1979) | |
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| Clouds (1979) | |
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| A Former Love, a Lover of Form (1985) | |
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| Stage and Screen, 1989 (1991) | |
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| Red Trousseau (1991) | |
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| What's Left (1979) | |
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| The Instinct (1979) | |
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| The Experts (1989) | |
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| Eileen's Vision (1995) | |
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| Rotting Symbols (1996) | |
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| Taxing (1996) | |
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| IFF (1987) | |
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| Intimations (1987) | |
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| Playing the Machine (1987) | |
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| The Bluejay and the Mockingbird (1987) | |
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| In the Beginning (1987) | |
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| The Celestial Emperor (1987) | |
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| The War (1977) | |
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| A Litany (1977) | |
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| The Trout Quintet (1977) | |
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| A Greek Girl at Riis Beach (1977) | |
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| To John Ashbery on Szymanowski's Birthday (1977) | |
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| Windows (1977) | |
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| The Ideal Bar (1977) | |
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| A Military Ball (1977) | |
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| The Painter's Son (1977) | |
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| Forest Divers (1977) | |
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| True Love (1985) | |
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| The Wellspring (1988) | |
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| The Request (1992) | |
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| April, New Hampshire (1995) | |
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| Her List (1998) | |
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| The Clasp (1998) | |
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| [O Quadriga,] (1982) | |
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| [As Cabeza de Vaca was] (1982) | |
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| The Telesphere (1982) | |
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| [The boats' lights in the dawn now going so swiftly the] (1982) | |
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| To the Poets: To Make Much of the World (1975) | |
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| Disasters (1976) | |
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| Fear (1976) | |
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| Gold on Oak Leaves Said Young (1978) | |
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| The Whirl Wind Must (1978) | |
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| The City of Salt (1994) | |
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| Elegy for a Child (1994) | |
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| Who'd Want to Be a Man? (1994) | |
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| A Litany (1994) | |
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| Geography (1986) | |
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| Everything Happens to (Monk and) Me (1995) | |
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| Twenty-four Logics in Memory of Lee Hickman (1993) | |
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| Wheel (1993) | |
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| "or anything resembling it" (1993) | |
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| H (1993) | |
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| Untitled (April '91) (1993) | |
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| Construction of the Museum (1993) | |
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| I Do Not (1999) | |
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| A Product of Evolution, I Invest in a Mutual Fund (1997) | |
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| An Entity of Its Word (1991) | |
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| Incommunicado (1981) | |
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| Morning in the Hospital Solarium (1981) | |
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| Black Pine Tree in an Orange Light (1981) | |
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| Rhyme (1981) | |
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| Nobody Sleeps (1995) | |
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| Alms (1996) | |
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| Constable's Clouds for Keats (1996) | |
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| Cardinals in a Shower at Union Square (1996) | |
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| Song (1993) | |
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| To the Man Inside (1995) | |
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| The Old Country (1995) | |
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| Ode on Arrival (1997) | |
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| The Border (1989) | |
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| Self-portraits by Frida Kahlo (1992) | |
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| Him, His Place (1987) | |
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| At the Exhibition of Parables (1986) | |
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| Fauviste (1986) | |
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| The World (1990) | |
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| 1919 (1990) | |
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| On Flower Wreath Hill (1976) | |
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| Floating (1982) | |
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| Burning Oneself Out (1973) | |
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| Burning Oneself In (1973) | |
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| August 1972 (1973) | |
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| Harpers Ferry (1989) | |
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| The Art of Translation (1998) | |
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| Camino Real (1998) | |
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| Acupuncture and Cleansing at 48 (1996) | |
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| And Where Were You (1996) | |
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| Sister Ann Zita Shows Us the Foolishness of the Forbidden Books (1996) | |
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| God's Blessing (1996) | |
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| In the Kitchen Before Dinner (1977) | |
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| Orchard in the Spring (1985) | |
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| Bad Truth (1985) | |
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| Love Among Lepers (1990) | |
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| The Gates (1976) | |
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| The Pure Loneliness (1976) | |
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| Passion (1988) | |
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| Moonlight (1988) | |
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| God Hunger (1988) | |
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| Complete Semen Study (1999) | |
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| The Use of Poetry (1999) | |
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| A Temporary Situation (1985) | |
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| Black Poppy (At the Temple) (1985) | |
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| My Friend (1991) | |
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| Standard Time (1995) | |
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| Izzy (1996) | |
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| There's No Rigor Like the Old Rigor II (1997) | |
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| The Depression (1997) | |
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| Grazing (1997) | |
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| The Soul (1999) | |
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| From that they were at the beach--aeolotropic series (1985) | |
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| August First, 1974 (1981) | |
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| Red Brick and Brown Stone (1981) | |
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| Self-Pity Is a Kind of Lying, Too (1981) | |
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| A View (1989) | |
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| Noon Office (1989) | |
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| Reserved Sacrament (1989) | |
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| The Next Two Tablets (1973) | |
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| The work (1995) | |
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| Fucking (1979) | |
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| To Robert Lowell and Osip Mandelstam (1979) | |
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| Scotland (1981) | |
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| Bleecker Street (1996) | |
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| Stroke [Writhing,] (1996) | |
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| Composition (1996) | |
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| Poem ["War and greed stop food."] (1996) | |
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| Photos (1996) | |
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| Dirt to Dirt (1996) | |
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| Stroke [He would get the gold,] (1996) | |
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| End (1996) | |
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| Laureate (1996) | |
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| The Furies (1973) | |
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| House (Blown Apart) (1985) | |
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| Traumerei (1985) | |
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| Archaic Torsos (1985) | |
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| A Pin's Fee, or Painting with Star (1985) | |
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| The Weak Poet (1997) | |
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| Song of the Eiffel Tower (1999) | |
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| From The Bourgeois Poet (1994) | |
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| Club Midnight (1996) | |
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| Live at Club Mozambique (1996) | |
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| Pain (1996) | |
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| Watching the Hearse (1996) | |
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| The Middleaged Man (1974) | |
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| Boots and Saddles (1974) | |
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| The Long Afternoon (1997) | |
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| Variations on a Poem by Reznikoff (1997) | |
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| The Appointment (1997) | |
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| The Listeners (1997) | |
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| A Letter from Brazil (1997) | |
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| Between the Moon and the Sun (1977) | |
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| Morning Light at Wanship, Utah (1979) | |
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| From The Fuhrer Bunker (1977) | |
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| [Out of the soil and rock,] (1986) | |
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| Message from Outside (1986) | |
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| The Feathered Robe (1986) | |
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| Train (1993) | |
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| The Roses (1997) | |
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| A Poem Without a Single Bird in It (1998) | |
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| Glimpses (1979) | |
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| For the Barn at Bread Loaf (1981) | |
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| August (1981) | |
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| The Chair in the Meadow (1981) | |
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| Priorities at Friday Ranch (1981) | |
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| Textures (1981) | |
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| Short Story (1975) | |
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| Visibility (1978) | |
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| The Veiled Lady (1991) | |
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| Posthuman (1997) | |
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| The Sounds (1974) | |
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| Behaving Like a Jew (1976) | |
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| Blue Skies, White Breasts, Green Trees (1977) | |
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| Lucky Life (1977) | |
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| Modern Love (1978) | |
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| Bela (1986) | |
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| Hinglish (1993) | |
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| Night (1999) | |
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| Slaughter | |
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| It Follows (1992) | |
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| Resonance (1992) | |
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| Lingua Franca (1998) | |
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| Awakening (1974) | |
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| Black Bean Soup (1998) | |
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| Blood (1999) | |
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| Something Goes By (1994) | |
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| Land of Little Sticks, 1945 (1980) | |
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| Head of a White Woman Winking (1993) | |
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| Inspiration (1993) | |
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| Dream On (1996) | |
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| Never Again the Same (1996) | |
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| Non-Stop (1996) | |
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| The Figure in the Carpet (1996) | |
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| Nirvana (1999) | |
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| The One You Wanted to Be Is the One You Are (1990) | |
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| The Free Abandonment Blues (1990) | |
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| The Under Voice (1991) | |
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| American River Sky Alcohol Father (1991) | |
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| The Pen (1998) | |
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| Truth (1998) | |
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| Sour Grapes (1976) | |
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| Sabbaths (1978) | |
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| The Saddhu of Couva (1978) | |
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| The Man Who Loved Islands (1980) | |
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| Under My Breath (1988) | |
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| Fait Accompli (1991) | |
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| Nerves (1995) | |
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| Night Walking (1979) | |
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| The Only Poem (1979) | |
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| Lessons in History (1979) | |
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| Vermont Thaw (1981) | |
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| Dead Horse in Field (1981) | |
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| Afterward (1981) | |
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| Death of Time (1981) | |
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| Dawn (1981) | |
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| Nameless Thing (1981) | |
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| If (1981) | |
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| You Sort Old Letters (1982) | |
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| The Whole Question (1982) | |
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| Travelogue (1992) | |
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| A Man Escaped (1993) | |
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| Mistaken Identity (1993) | |
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| Elegy (1993) | |
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| Good Omen (1996) | |
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| The Impossible (1990) | |
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| Why We Are Forgiven (1992) | |
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| Red Squirrel (1996) | |
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| Our 17th Street Years (1996) | |
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| Flypaper (1992) | |
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| Shorthand (1992) | |
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| A Conference (1999) | |
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| For Gil and Other Incurables (1999) | |
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| Outside the Hospital (1995) | |
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| My Life (1998) | |
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| All That Really Happens (1998) | |
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| Promise (1998) | |
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| Send New Beasts (1998) | |
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| We Were a Whole Army Underground (1998) | |
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| Museum (1998) | |
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| Writer (1998) | |
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| Each Sentence Is Into the Fast (1998) | |
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| The Only Fortunate Thing (1998) | |
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| Smiling Through (1977) | |
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| Mother's Past (1977) | |
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| The Crow and the Fox (1988) | |
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| Cottage Street, 1953 (1972) | |
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| Poem ["I think I came close to being insane a few months ago."] (1972) | |
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| The Sanctity (1974) | |
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| The Gas Station (1980) | |
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| The Dog (1983) | |
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| Tattoos (1973) | |
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| Sirmione (1974) | |
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| The Silent Angel (1974) | |
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| Romeo, Grown Old (1974) | |
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| Magnificence (1974) | |
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| And Yet I Know (1974) | |
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| Handsome Is As Handsome Does (1974) | |
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| Four Dead Sons (1974) | |
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| Nocturne, Aubade, and Vesper (1974) | |
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| Young Don't Want to Be Born (1974) | |
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| Angel Atrapado VII (1991) | |
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| Chinese Landscape Above Caracas (1992) | |
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| The Painter Asks (1992) | |
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| Avila (1992) | |
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| Picadilly or Paradise (1996) | |
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| Eternity's Woods (1981) | |
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| Father (1981) | |
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| Aunt Lil (1981) | |
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| Life Story (1981) | |
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| Contributor's Notes | |
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| Credits | |
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| Index | |