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A Note on the Text | |
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How It Was: Maxine Kumin on Anne Sexton | |
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To Bedlam and Part Way Back (1960) | |
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You, Doctor Martin | |
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Kind Sir: These Woods | |
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Torn Down from Glory Daily | |
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Music Swims Back to Me | |
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The Bells | |
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Elizabeth Gone | |
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Some Foreign Letters | |
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The Kite | |
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Said the Poet to the Analyst | |
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Venus and the Ark | |
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Her Kind | |
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The Exorcists | |
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Where I Live in This Honorable House of the Laurel Tree | |
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Portrait of an Old Woman on the College Tavern Wall | |
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The Farmer's Wife | |
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Funnel | |
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The Expatriates | |
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For Johnny Pole on the Forgotten Beach | |
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Unknown Girl in the Maternity Ward | |
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What's That | |
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The Moss of His Skin | |
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Hutch | |
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Noon Walk on the Asylum Lawn | |
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Ringing the Bells | |
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Lullaby | |
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The Lost Ingredient | |
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The Road Back | |
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The Waiting Head | |
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Elegy in the Classroom | |
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A Story for Rose on the Midnight Flight to Boston | |
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For John, Who Begs Me Not to Enquire Further | |
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The Double Image | |
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The Division of Parts | |
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All My Pretty Ones (1962) | |
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The Truth the Dead Know | |
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All My Pretty Ones | |
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Young | |
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Lament | |
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To a Friend Whose Work Has Come to Triumph | |
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The Starry Night | |
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Old Dwarf Heart | |
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I Remember | |
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The Operation | |
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A Curse Against Elegies | |
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The Abortion | |
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With Mercy for the Greedy | |
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For God While Sleeping | |
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In the Deep Museum | |
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Ghosts | |
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The Fortress | |
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Old | |
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The Hangman | |
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Woman with Girdle | |
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The House | |
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Water | |
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Wallflower | |
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Housewife | |
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Doors, Doors, Doors | |
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Letter Written on a Ferry While Crossing Long Island Sound | |
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From the Garden | |
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Love Song for K. Owyne | |
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Flight | |
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For Eleanor Boylan Talking with God | |
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The Black Art | |
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Letter Written During a January Northeaster | |
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Live or Die (1966) | |
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Author's Note | |
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And One for My Dame | |
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The Sun | |
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Flee on Your Donkey | |
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Three Green Windows | |
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Somewhere in Africa | |
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Imitations of Drowning | |
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Mother and Jack and the Rain | |
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Consorting with Angels | |
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The Legend of the One-eyed Man | |
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Love Song | |
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Man and Wife | |
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Those Times... | |
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Two Sons | |
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To Lose the Earth | |
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Sylvia's Death | |
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Protestant Easter | |
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For the Year of the Insane | |
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Crossing the Atlantic | |
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Walking in Paris | |
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Menstruation at Forty | |
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Christmas Eve | |
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KE 6-8018 | |
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Wanting to Die | |
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The Wedding Night | |
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Little Girl, My String Bean, My Lovely Woman | |
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A Little Uncomplicated Hymn | |
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Your Face on the Dog's Neck | |
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Self in 1958 | |
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Suicide Note | |
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In the Beach House | |
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Cripples and Other Stories | |
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Pain for a Daughter | |
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The Addict | |
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Live | |
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Love Poems (1969) | |
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The Touch | |
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The Kiss | |
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The Breast | |
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The Interrogation of the Man of Many Hearts | |
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That Day | |
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In Celebration of My Uterus | |
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The Nude Swim | |
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Song for a Red Nightgown | |
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Loving the Killer | |
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For My Lover, Returning to His Wife | |
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The Break | |
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It Is a Spring Afternoon | |
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Just Once | |
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Again and Again and Again | |
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You All Know the Story of the Other Woman | |
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Moon Song, Woman Song | |
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The Ballad of the Lonely Masturbator | |
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Barefoot | |
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The Papa and Mama Dance | |
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Now | |
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Us | |
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Mr. Mine | |
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Song for a Lady | |
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Knee Song | |
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Eighteen Days Without You | |
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Transformations (1971) | |
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The Gold Key | |
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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs | |
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The White Snake | |
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Rumpelstiltskin | |
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The Little Peasant | |
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Godfather Death | |
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Rapunzel | |
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Iron Hans | |
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Cinderella | |
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One-Eye, Two-Eyes, Three-Eyes | |
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The Wonderful Musician | |
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Red Riding Hood | |
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The Maiden Without Hands | |
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The Twelve Dancing Princesses | |
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The Frog Prince | |
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Hansel and Gretel | |
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Briar Rose (Sleeping Beauty) | |
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The Book of Folly (1972) | |
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Thirty Poems | |
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The Ambition Bird | |
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The Doctor of the Heart | |
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Oh | |
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Sweeney | |
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Mother and Daughter | |
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The Wifebeater | |
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The Firebombers | |
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The One-Legged Man | |
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The Assassin | |
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Going Gone | |
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Anna Who Was Mad | |
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The Hex | |
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Dreaming the Breasts | |
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The Red Shoes | |
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The Other | |
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The Silence | |
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The Hoarder | |
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Killing the Spring | |
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The Death of the Fathers | |
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Oysters | |
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How We Danced | |
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The Boat | |
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Santa | |
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Friends | |
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Begat | |
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Angels of the Love Affair | |
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Angel of Fire and Genitals | |
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Angel of Clean Sheets | |
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Angel of Flight and Sleigh Bells | |
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Angel of Hope and Calendars | |
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Angel of Blizzards and Blackouts | |
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Angel of Beach Houses and Picnics | |
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The Jesus Papers | |
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Jesus Suckles | |
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Jesus Awake | |
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Jesus Asleep | |
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Jesus Raises Up the Harlot | |
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Jesus Cooks | |
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Jesus Summons Forth | |
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Jesus Dies | |
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Jesus Unborn | |
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The Author of the Jesus Papers Speaks | |
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The Death Notebooks (1974) | |
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Gods | |
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Making a Living | |
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For Mr. Death Who Stands with His Door Open | |
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Faustus and I | |
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The Death Baby | |
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Dreams | |
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The Dy-dee Doll | |
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Seven Times | |
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Madonna | |
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Max | |
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Baby | |
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Rats Live on No Evil Star | |
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Grandfather, Your Wound | |
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Baby Picture | |
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The Furies | |
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The Fury of Beautiful Bones | |
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The Fury of Hating Eyes | |
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The Fury of Guitars and Sopranos | |
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The Fury of Earth | |
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The Fury of Jewels and Coal | |
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The Fury of Cooks | |
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The Fury of Cocks | |
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The Fury of Abandonment | |
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The Fury of Overshoes | |
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The Fury of Rain Storms | |
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The Fury of Flowers and Worms | |
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The Fury of God's Good-bye | |
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The Fury of Sundays | |
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The Fury of Sunsets | |
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The Fury of Sunrises | |
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Praying on a 707 | |
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Clothes | |
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Mary's Song | |
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God's Backside | |
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Jesus Walking | |
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Hurry Up Please It's Time | |
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O Ye Tongues | |
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First Psalm | |
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Second Psalm | |
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Third Psalm | |
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Fourth Psalm | |
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Fifth Psalm | |
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Sixth Psalm | |
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Seventh Psalm | |
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Eighth Psalm | |
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Ninth Psalm | |
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Tenth Psalm | |
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The Awful Rowing Toward God (1975) | |
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Rowing | |
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The Civil War | |
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The Children | |
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Two Hands | |
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The Room of My Life | |
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The Witch's Life | |
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The Earth Falls Down | |
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Courage | |
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Riding the Elevator into the Sky | |
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When Man Enters Woman | |
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The Fish That Walked | |
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The Fallen Angels | |
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The Earth | |
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After Auschwitz | |
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The Poet of Ignorance | |
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The Sermon of the Twelve Acknowledgments | |
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The Evil Eye | |
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The Dead Heart | |
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The Play | |
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The Sickness Unto Death | |
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Locked Doors | |
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The Evil Seekers | |
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The Wall | |
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Is It True? | |
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Welcome Morning | |
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Jesus, the Actor, Plays the Holy Ghost | |
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The God-Monger | |
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What the Bird with the Human Head Knew | |
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The Fire Thief | |
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The Big Heart | |
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Words | |
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Mothers | |
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Doctors | |
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Frenzy | |
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Snow | |
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Small Wire | |
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The Saints Come Marching In | |
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Not So. Not So. | |
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The Rowing Endeth | |
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Posthumously Published Work | |
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45 Mercy Street (1976) | |
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Editor's Note | |
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Beginning the Hegira | |
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45 Mercy Street | |
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Talking to Sheep | |
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The Falling Dolls | |
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The Money Swing | |
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Food | |
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The Child Bearers | |
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The Taker | |
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The Risk | |
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Praying to Big Jack | |
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Red Roses | |
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The Shout | |
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Keeping the City | |
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Bestiary U.S.A. | |
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Bat | |
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Hog | |
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Porcupine | |
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Hornet | |
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Star-Nosed Mole | |
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Snail | |
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Lobster | |
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Snake | |
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Moose | |
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Sheep | |
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Cockroach | |
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Raccoon | |
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Seal | |
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Earthworm | |
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Whale | |
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Horse | |
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June Bug | |
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Gull | |
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The Divorce Papers | |
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Where It Was At Back Then | |
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The Wedlock | |
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Landscape Winter | |
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Despair | |
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Divorce | |
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Waking Alone | |
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Bayonet | |
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The Wedding Ring Dance | |
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When the Glass of My Body Broke | |
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The Break Away | |
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The Stand-Ins | |
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The Love Plant | |
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Killing the Love | |
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The Red Dance | |
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The Inventory of Goodbye | |
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The Lost Lie | |
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End, Middle, Beginning | |
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Eating the Leftovers | |
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Cigarettes and Whiskey and Wild, Wild Women | |
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The Passion of the Mad Rabbit | |
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The Angel Food Dogs | |
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Leaves That Talk | |
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"Daddy" Warbucks | |
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Divorce, Thy Name Is Woman | |
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The Fierceness of Female | |
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The Big Boots of Pain | |
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Demon | |
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The Sea Corpse | |
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There You Were | |
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The Consecrating Mother | |
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Words for Dr. Y. (1978) | |
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Editor's Note | |
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Letters to Dr. Y. (1960-1970) | |
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Poems 1971-1973 | |
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Buying the Whore | |
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To Like, To Love | |
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The Surgeon | |
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Speaking Bitterness | |
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Telephone | |
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Yellow | |
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The Death King | |
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The Errand | |
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The Twelve-Thousand-Day Honeymoon | |
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Scorpio, Bad Spider, Die: The Horoscope Poems | |
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Madame Arrives in the Mail | |
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January 1st | |
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January 19th | |
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January 24th | |
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February 3rd | |
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February 4th | |
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February 11th | |
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February 17th | |
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February 20th | |
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February 21st | |
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March 4th | |
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March 7th | |
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May 30th | |
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August 8th | |
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August 17th | |
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Last Poems | |
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Admonitions to a Special Person | |
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In Excelsis | |
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Uses | |
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As It Was Written | |
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Lessons in Hunger | |
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Love Letter Written in a Burning Building | |
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Index of Titles | |