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| New Poems | |
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| Providence | |
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| Water | |
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| Jasmine | |
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| The Whispering Gallery | |
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| Tuesday Night at the Savoy Ballroom | |
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| Doppelgangers | |
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| Somewhere | |
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| Never Land | |
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| Pepper | |
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| South Carolina Morning | |
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| Rendezvous | |
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| Once the Dream Begins | |
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| Ogoni | |
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| Keeper of the Vigil | |
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| Nightbird | |
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| Tenebrae | |
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| Double Limbo | |
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| NJ Transit | |
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| Early Uncollected | |
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| Mississippi John Hurt | |
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| Langston Hughes | |
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| Blue Tonality | |
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| De Sintoma Profundo | |
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| Lover | |
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| Reminiscence | |
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| Waiting for a Tree Through a Window | |
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| The Lamp Carrier | |
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| The Life & Times of Billy Boy | |
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| A House of Snow | |
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| Recital of Water Over Stones | |
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| The Dog's Theology | |
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| They Say in Yellow Jacket | |
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| When Men Can't Trust Hands with Wood | |
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| Birthday Song | |
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| Legacy | |
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| Eye Witness | |
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| Unnatural Deaths | |
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| A Different Story | |
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| One-Breath Song | |
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| Frontal Lobe Postscript | |
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| Sagittarius Approaching Thirty-Five | |
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| Cubism | |
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| Insinuations | |
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| Loneliness | |
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| Dedications & Other Darkhorses | |
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| Returning the Borrowed Road | |
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| Chair Gallows | |
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| Allegorical Seduction | |
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| Under House Arrest | |
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| Translating Footsteps | |
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| Urban Renewal | |
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| Magpies | |
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| The Tongue Is | |
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| Ten Speeds | |
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| (E)Motion | |
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| Observatory | |
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| Lost in the Bonewheel Factory | |
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| Looking a Mad Dog Dead in the Eyes | |
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| Floor Plans | |
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| Tour Guide | |
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| Sitting in a Rocking Chair, Going Blind | |
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| Pushing in All the Buttons | |
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| Confessing My Ignorance | |
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| 1938 | |
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| S & M | |
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| Stepfather: A Girl's Song | |
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| Stepmother: A Boy's Song | |
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| No Love in This House | |
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| High on Sadness | |
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| Sunbather | |
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| Apprenticeship | |
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| Light on the Subject | |
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| Punchdrunk | |
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| Vigilante | |
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| Nothing to Do with Janice Drake | |
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| Reconstructing a Crime | |
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| Two | |
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| Beg Song | |
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| Death Threat Note | |
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| Child Stealer | |
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| A Poet Whose Photo Never Grows Old | |
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| Poetics | |
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| Imagination | |
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| Ghost Chant, et alii | |
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| Passions | |
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| The Dog Act | |
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| For You, Sweetheart, I'll Sell Plutonium Reactors | |
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| Feet Nailed to the Floor | |
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| The Nazi Doll | |
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| Breaking Camp | |
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| Corrigenda | |
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| Copacetic | |
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| False Leads | |
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| Soliloquy: Man Talking to a Mirror | |
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| The Way the Cards Fall | |
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| Reflections | |
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| Annabelle | |
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| Faith Healer | |
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| More Girl Than Boy | |
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| April Fools' Day | |
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| Untitled Blues | |
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| Jumping Bad Blues | |
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| Initials on Aspens | |
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| Family Tree | |
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| Instructions for Building Straw Huts | |
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| An Exchange Student Awaits the Arrival of an African Princess | |
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| Back Then | |
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| Blasphemy | |
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| Lost Wax | |
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| Safe Subjects | |
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| Black String of Days | |
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| Eleemosynary | |
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| Speaking of Luck | |
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| Villon/Leadbelly | |
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| Borinken Blues | |
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| Let's Say | |
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| Elegy for Thelonious | |
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| Copacetic Mingus | |
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| Letter to Bob Kaufman | |
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| Woman, I Got the Blues | |
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| Street Cool Clara | |
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| Newport Beach, 1979 | |
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| Gloria's Clues | |
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| Charmed | |
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| Captain Diable's Receptionist | |
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| The Cage Walker | |
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| Addendum | |
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| Epilogue to the Opera of Dead on Arrival | |
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| By Proxy | |
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| 1931 | |
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| The Leper's Bell | |
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| Blues Chant Hoodoo Rival | |
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| Toys in a Field | |
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| Nothing Big | |
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| Ambush | |
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| Water Buffalo | |
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| Monsoon Season | |
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| Le Xuan, Beautiful Spring | |
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| Toys in a Field | |
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| Please | |
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| Returning (1975) | |
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| I Apologize for the Eyes in My Head | |
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| Unnatural State of the Unicorn | |
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| Lightshow | |
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| Sorrow | |
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| Touch-up Man | |
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| How I See Things | |
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| Insufficient Blue | |
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| The Thorn Merchant | |
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| The Thorn Merchant's Right-Hand Man | |
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| After the Heart's Interrogation | |
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| Happy-Go-Lucky's Wolf Skull Dream Mask | |
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| The Heart's Graveyard Shift | |
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| Hard Up | |
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| Boy Wearing a Dead Man's Clothes | |
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| Gift Horse | |
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| The Music That Hurts | |
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| When in Rome--Apologia | |
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| The Thorn Merchant's Wife | |
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| The Thorn Merchant's Mistress | |
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| Somewhere Else | |
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| After Summer Fell Apart | |
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| Uncertainty in Blue | |
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| The Brain to the Heart | |
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| Audacity of the Lower Gods | |
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| The Falling-Down Song | |
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| Syzygy | |
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| The Thorn Merchant's Son | |
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| I Apologize | |
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| 1984 | |
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| Dreambook Bestiary | |
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| Two Cranial Murals | |
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| Jonestown: More Eyes for Jadwiga's Dream | |
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| Landscape for the Disappeared | |
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| Articulation & Class | |
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| In the Labor Camp of Good Intentions | |
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| Good Joe | |
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| Making Out with the Dream-Shredding Machine | |
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| In the Background of Silence | |
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| Cinderella at Big Sur | |
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| Born Pretty in a Poor Country | |
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| Olympia | |
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| "Everybody's Reading Li Po" Silkscreened on a Purple T-Shirt | |
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| For the Walking Dead | |
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| Too Pretty for Serious Business | |
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| Child's Play | |
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| Raw Data for an Unfinished Questionnaire | |
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| The Beast & Burden: Seven Improvisations | |
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| Dien Cai Dau | |
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| Camouflaging the Chimera | |
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| Tunnels | |
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| Somewhere Near Phu Bai | |
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| Starlight Scope Myopia | |
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| Red Pagoda | |
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| A Greenness Taller Than Gods | |
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| The Dead at Quang Tri | |
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| Hanoi Hannah | |
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| Roll Call | |
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| Fragging | |
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| "You and I Are Disappearing" | |
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| 2527th Birthday of the Buddha | |
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| Re-creating the Scene | |
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| Night Muse & Mortar Round | |
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| One More Loss to Count | |
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| Sappers | |
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| Nude Pictures | |
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| We Never Know | |
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| A Break from the Bush | |
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| Seeing in the Dark | |
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| Tu Do Street | |
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| Communique | |
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| The Edge | |
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| Donut Dollies | |
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| Prisoners | |
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| Jungle Surrender | |
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| Eyeball Television | |
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| The One-legged Stool | |
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| Short-timer's Calendar | |
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| Thanks | |
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| To Have Danced with Death | |
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| Report from the Skull's Diorama | |
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| Combat Pay for Jody | |
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| Sunset Threnody | |
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| After the Fall | |
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| Saigon Bar Girls, 1975 | |
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| Boat People | |
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| Bui Doi, Dust of Life | |
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| Missing in Action | |
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| Losses | |
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| Between Days | |
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| Facing It | |
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| February in Sydney | |
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| Under the Harbour Bridge | |
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| The Man Who Carries the Desert Around Inside Himself: For Wally | |
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| Rocks Push | |
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| The Plea | |
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| When Loneliness Is a Man | |
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| A Quality of Light | |
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| Gerry's Jazz | |
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| Boxing Day | |
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| Protection of Moveable Cultural Heritage | |
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| A Delicate Conspiracy | |
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| The Cops Call Him Charlie | |
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| Frank's Poem | |
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| Blue Light Lounge Sutra for the Performance Poets at Harold Park Hotel | |
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| February in Sydney | |
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| Magic City | |
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| Venus's-flytraps | |
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| The Whistle | |
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| Playthings | |
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| Yellow Dog Cafe | |
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| Happiness | |
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| Seasons Between Yes & No | |
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| Glory | |
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| April's Anarchy | |
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| The Millpond | |
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| Immolatus | |
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| Banking Potatoes | |
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| The Smokehouse | |
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| The Steel Plate | |
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| Sunday Afternoons | |
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| Looking for Choctaw | |
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| Fleshing-out the Season | |
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| Blackberries | |
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| Yellowjackets | |
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| Gristmill | |
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| History Lessons | |
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| Temples of Smoke | |
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| Boys in Dresses | |
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| Nude Tango | |
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| Touch | |
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| Sugar | |
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| Albino | |
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| Halloween, the Late Fifties | |
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| Mismatched Shoes | |
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| My Father's Love Letters | |
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| The Cooling Board | |
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| Omen | |
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| Believing in Iron | |
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| Salome | |
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| Between Angels & Monsters | |
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| Poetics of Paperwood | |
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| Slam, Dunk, & Hook | |
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| Sex, Magnolias, & Speed | |
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| Knights of the White Camellia & Deacons of Defense | |
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| Nocturne | |
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| Butterfly-toed Shoes | |
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| Neon Vernacular | |
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| Fog Galleon | |
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| At the Screen Door | |
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| Moonshine | |
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| Salt | |
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| Changes; or, Reveries at a Window Overlooking a Country Road, with Two Women Talking Blues in the Kitchen | |
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| Work | |
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| Praising Dark Places | |
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| A Good Memory | |
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| Birds on a Powerline | |
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| Fever | |
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| Little Man Around the House | |
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| Songs for My Father | |
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| Thieves of Paradise | |
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| Memory Cave | |
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| Out There There Be Dragons | |
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| The Song Thief | |
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| Wet Nurse | |
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| Ode to a Drum | |
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| Eclogue at Daybreak | |
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| Genealogy | |
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| Kosmos | |
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| Confluence | |
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| Palimpsest | |
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| Mumble Peg | |
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| Ia Drang Valley | |
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| Cenotaph | |
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| The Trapper's Bride | |
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| Eclogue at Twilight | |
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| The Tally | |
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| Heroes of Waterloo | |
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| Wokanmagulli | |
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| Waratah | |
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| New Gold Mountain | |
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| White Lady | |
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| Meditations on a Dingo | |
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| Report from the Lucky Country | |
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| In the irror | |
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| The Piccolo | |
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| John Says | |
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| Corners of Night | |
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| Messages | |
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| Visitation | |
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| Bennelong's Blues | |
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| Quatrains for Ishi | |
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| The Glass Ark | |
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| Nude Interrogation | |
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| The Poplars | |
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| Surgery | |
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| Phantasmagoria | |
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| A Summer Night in Hanoi | |
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| A Reed Boat | |
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| Buried Light | |
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| The Hanoi Market | |
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| Shrines | |
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| Frontispiece | |
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| Breasts | |
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| The Deck | |
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| Ghost Video | |
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| Phantom Limbs | |
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| Dream Animal | |
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| Testimony | |
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| Blessing the Animals | |
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| Rhythm Method | |
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| The Parrot Asylum | |
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| The Thorn Merchant's Daughter | |
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| The Monkey House | |
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| Dolphy's Aviary | |
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| Crack | |
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| No-Good Blues | |
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| Sandhog | |
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| The Wall | |
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| A Story | |
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| What Counts | |
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| Woebegone | |
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| Strands | |
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| Anodyne | |
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| Index of Titles and First Lines | |