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Introduction | |
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Chronology | |
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Early Poems | |
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The Balance Wheel (1958) | |
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An Obsessive Combination of Ontological Inscape, Trickery and Love (1959) | |
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My Friend, My Friend (1959) | |
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from 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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Music Swims Back to Me | |
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Elizabeth Gone | |
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Some Foreign Letters | |
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Said the Poet to the Analyst | |
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Her Kind | |
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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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Ringing the Bells | |
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Lullaby | |
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The Lost Ingredient | |
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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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from 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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The Abortion | |
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With Mercy for the Greedy | |
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In the Deep Museum | |
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The Fortress | |
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Old | |
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Housewife | |
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Letter Written on a Ferry While Crossing Long Island Sound | |
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For Eleanor Boylan Talking with God | |
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The Black Art | |
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from Live or Die (1966) | |
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And One for My Dame | |
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Flee on Your Donkey | |
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Somewhere in Africa | |
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Consorting with Angels | |
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The Legend of the One-Eyed Man | |
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Protestant Easter | |
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For the Year of the Insane | |
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Walking in Paris | |
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Menstruation at Forty | |
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Wanting to Die | |
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Little Girl, My Stringbean, My Lovely Woman | |
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Your Face on the Dog's Neck | |
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Self in 1958 | |
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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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from Love Poems (1969) | |
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The Breast | |
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In Celebration of My Uterus | |
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Loving the Killer | |
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For My Lover, Returning to His Wife | |
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It Is a Spring Afternoon | |
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Just Once | |
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You All Know the Story of the Other Woman | |
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The Ballad of the Lonely Masturbator | |
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The Papa and Mama Dance | |
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Us | |
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Mr. Mine | |
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Song for a Lady | |
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from Eighteen Days Without You | |
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December 2 | |
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December 11 | |
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December 18 | |
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from Transformations (1971) | |
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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs | |
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Rapunzel | |
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One-Eye, Two-Eyes, Three-Eyes | |
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The Frog Prince | |
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Briar Rose (Sleeping Beauty) | |
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from The Book of Folly (1972) | |
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from Thirty Poems | |
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Mother and Daughter | |
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Dreaming the Breasts | |
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The Silence | |
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from 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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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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from 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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from The Death Notebooks (1974) | |
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For Mr. Death Who Stands with His Door Open | |
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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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from The Furies | |
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The Fury of Beautiful Bones | |
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The Fury of Guitars and Sopranos | |
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The Fury of Cooks | |
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The Fury of Cocks | |
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The Fury of Sunsets | |
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The Fury of Sunrises | |
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Clothes | |
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from O Ye Tongues | |
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First Psalm | |
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Fourth Psalm | |
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Eighth Psalm | |
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Tenth Psalm | |
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from The Awful Rowing Toward God (1975) | |
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Rowing | |
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Riding the Elevator into the Sky | |
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When Man Enters Woman | |
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The Earth | |
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Jesus, the Actor, Plays the Holy Ghost | |
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Frenzy | |
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The God-Monger | |
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Small Wire | |
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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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from Beginning the Hegira | |
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The Money Swing | |
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Food | |
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from Bestiary U.S.A. | |
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Hornet | |
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Star-Nosed Mole | |
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Whale | |
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from The Divorce Papers | |
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Where It Was At Back Then | |
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from Eating the Leftovers | |
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Divorce, Thy Name Is Woman | |
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The Consecrating Mother | |
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Words for Dr. Y. (1978) | |
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from Letters to Dr. Y. | |
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[What has it come to, Dr. Y.] | |
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[I called him Comfort] | |
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[It's music you've never heard] | |
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[I'm dreaming the My Lai soldier again] | |
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from Scorpio, Bad Spider, Die: The Horoscope Poems | |
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January 24th | |
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February 3rd | |
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February 21st | |
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from Last Poems | |
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In Excelsis | |