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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction: Saying What Happened in the 21st Century | |
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| New | |
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| Previews | |
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| Bubble Wrap | |
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| Action Poem | |
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| Curse | |
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| The Soldier Who Guards the Frontier | |
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| To the Republic | |
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| Inauguration Day | |
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| Call and Answer | |
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| Let Sympathy Pass | |
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| The Stew of Discontents | |
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| Those Being Eaten | |
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| Here the Sleepers Sleep | |
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| The Altars of September | |
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| Flag | |
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| Ringtone | |
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| Lines from the Reports of the Investigative Committees | |
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| Partial Inventory of Airborne Debris | |
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| Dream of Arabian Hillbillies | |
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| The Ghost of Heaven | |
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| Flee | |
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| Earth | |
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| Fish Market | |
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| The Vessel Bends the Water | |
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| Background Check | |
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| Protest Song | |
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| October | |
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| Some Common Terms in Latin That Are Larger Than Our Lives | |
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| "A1" from The Day | |
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| Little Exercise | |
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| Praying (Attempt of June 14'03) | |
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| Guant�namo | |
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| Employment | |
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| Sweet | |
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| Father Mercy, Mother Tongue | |
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| Still Life | |
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| The Selvage | |
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| Y2K | |
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| Letter to Hayden Carruth | |
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| From Names | |
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| Ghazal: min al-hobbi m'a qatal | |
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| Aftermath | |
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| What Happened | |
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| Conference | |
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| I am Your Waiter Tonight and My Name is Dmitri | |
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| Ezra Pound's Proposition | |
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| On Visiting the DMZ at Panmunjom: A Haibun | |
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| Some of David's Story | |
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| Happy Anniversary | |
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| Full Flight | |
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| Troubled Times | |
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| In the Loop | |
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| Stop-loss | |
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| From Nine Untitled Epyllions | |
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| Reportorial Poetry, Trance & Activism | |
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| In a Senate Armed Services Hearing | |
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| Request to the Berkeley City Council Concerning Strawberry Creek | |
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| In High Desert Under the Drones | |
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| When the Towers Fell | |
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| From "Love in the Time of War" | |
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| Grenade | |
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| The Towers | |
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| Heavy Metal Soliloquy | |
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| The Warlord's Garden | |
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| Surge | |
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| Clouds | |
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| Extraordinary Rendition | |
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| On Reading The Age of Innocence in a Troubled Time | |
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| Entering Houses at Night | |
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| Still We Take Joy | |
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| Just Deserts | |
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| Victory | |
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| Hum | |
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| Echo Revision | |
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| Didactic Elegy | |
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| Ready-Mades | |
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| Vita Breva | |
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| Beauty | |
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| Elegy for Oum Kolsoum Written Across the Sky | |
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| Column I, Tablet XIII | |
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| Jihad | |
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| Assault to Abjury | |
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| Sen Jak's Advice to the Tropically Depressed | |
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| On being Transparent: Cedar Rapids Airport | |
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| To the Light of September | |
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| To the Words | |
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| To the Grass of Autumn | |
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| To Ashes | |
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| To the Coming Winter | |
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| From "Hung Lyres" | |
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| Asymmetrices | |
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| Testimony | |
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| Compline | |
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| From "Homefront/Removes" | |
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| Dictionary in the Dark | |
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| Interview, Saudi Arabia | |
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| I Never Realized They Had Aspirations Like Ours | |
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| A History | |
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| September, 2001 | |
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| Poem of Disconnected Parts | |
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| The Forgetting | |
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| The Anniversary | |
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| National Anthem | |
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| Dead Soldier | |
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| Those Who Could Not Flee | |
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| Recent History | |
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| God Bless Our Troops | |
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| From Don't Let Me be Lonely: An American Lyric: "Cornel West makes the point" | |
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| "Timothy McVeigh died at 7:14 A.M." | |
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| Given Days | |
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| Vietnam Epic Treatment | |
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| Election Year | |
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| God Exploding | |
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| The Black-Eyed Virgins | |
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| Eurostar | |
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| Song: "The Swollen River Overthrows Its Banks" | |
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| The Bush Administration | |
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| Found Poem: Microloans | |
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| Thinking of Baghdad | |
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| The Anatomy of Melancholy | |
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| When I'm Crying, I'm not speaking | |
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| When I'm speaking, I'm not crying | |
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| Elegy Against the Massacre at the Amish School in West Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania, Autumn 2006 | |
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| In Rubble | |
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| War | |
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| Fear | |
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| The Future | |
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| Cassandra, Iraq | |
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| Lies | |
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| Found in the Free Library | |
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| In a Time of War | |
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| Back Then, We Called It "The War" | |
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| The Show Must Go On | |
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| Rendition, with Flag | |
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| Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) | |
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| From Rising, Falling, Hovering: "He slept with the dead then" | |
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| "One bright night" | |
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| "I was just thinking" | |
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| Exxon | |
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| The Poets: Profiles and Statements | |
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| Index | |