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| Introduction: Fair Realist | |
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| Timeline | |
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| Works by Barbara Guest | |
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| Notes and Acknowledgments | |
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| The Location of Things | |
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| The Location of Things | |
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| Piazzas | |
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| All Grey-Haired My Sisters | |
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| Windy Afternoon | |
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| Russians at the Beach | |
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| The Hero Leaves His Ship | |
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| Les Realites | |
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| In the Middle of the Easel | |
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| On the Way to Dumbarton Oaks | |
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| Cape Canaveral | |
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| Sunday Evening | |
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| Parachutes, My Love, Could Carry Us Higher | |
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| The Crisis | |
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| Upside Down | |
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| Seeing You Off | |
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| Safe Flights | |
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| Sadness | |
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| Jaffa Juce | |
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| In Dock | |
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| People in Wartime | |
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| Landing | |
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| History | |
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| Oriental Movie | |
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| The Crisis | |
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| West Sixty-Fourth Street | |
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| The Time of Day | |
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| Heroic Stages | |
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| In America, the Seasons | |
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| Belgravia | |
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| In the Alps | |
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| The Past of a Poem | |
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| Archaics | |
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| Atalanta in Arcadia | |
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| "From Eyes Blue and Cold" | |
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| Dido to Aeneas | |
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| Green Awnings | |
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| Palm Trees | |
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| In the Campagna | |
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| "Who will accept our offering at this end of autumn?" | |
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| The Open Skies (1962) | |
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| The Voice Tree | |
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| Lights of My Eyes | |
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| Snow Angel | |
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| Santa Fe Trail | |
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| Nocturne | |
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| The First of May | |
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| Dardanella | |
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| The Brown Studio | |
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| All Elegies are Black and White | |
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| The Open Skies | |
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| Hurricane | |
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| His Jungle | |
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| Timor Mortis, Florida | |
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| Sand | |
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| Wave | |
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| Geography | |
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| The Blue Stairs (1968) | |
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| The Blue Stairs | |
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| Turkey Villas | |
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| Walking Buddha | |
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| Colonial Hours | |
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| Saving Tallow | |
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| The Return of the Muses | |
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| A Reason | |
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| Direction | |
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| Barrels | |
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| East of Omsk | |
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| Parade's End | |
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| Clouds Near the Windmill | |
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| Fan Poems | |
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| A Way of Being | |
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| Four Moroccan Studies | |
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| A Handbook of Surfing | |
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| I Ching (1969) | |
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| I Ching | |
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| Moscow Mansions (1973) | |
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| Red Lilies | |
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| Illyria | |
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| Egypt | |
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| Nebraska | |
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| On Mt. Snowdon | |
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| Rosy | |
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| Ensconcements | |
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| Even Ovid | |
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| The Interruptions | |
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| Moscow Mansions 1 | |
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| Moscow Mansions 2 | |
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| Knight of the Swan | |
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| Carmen | |
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| Museum | |
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| Byron's Signatories | |
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| The Poetess | |
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| Losing People | |
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| The Poem Lying Down | |
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| Sassafras | |
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| Circassians | |
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| Another July | |
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| Drawing a Blank | |
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| Stupid | |
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| Physical Pain | |
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| Roses | |
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| Lights of My Eyes | |
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| Passage | |
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| Hohenzollern | |
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| The Stragglers | |
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| Olivetti ode | |
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| On the verge of the path | |
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| Gravel | |
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| Bicycling | |
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| Shifting the Iris | |
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| Green Revolutions | |
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| Poem | |
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| Evening | |
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| The Old Silk Road | |
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| Now | |
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| The Countess From Minneapolis (1976) | |
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| 50 Floors | |
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| Thinking of you Prokofief | |
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| River Road Studio | |
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| Portrait of Mary Rood | |
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| Eating Lake Superior Cisco Smoked Fish | |
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| Musings on the Mississippi | |
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| Legends | |
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| Prairie Houses | |
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| At the Guthrie Theatre | |
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| Persians in Minneapolis | |
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| (Scop - A Poet) Widsith | |
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| Crocus Hill | |
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| Activities | |
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| June | |
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| Amaryllis | |
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| The Tuerler Losses (1979) | |
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| Biography (1980) | |
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| Quilts (1980) | |
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| Quilts | |
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| Musicality (1988) | |
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| Originally with drawings by June Felter | |
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| Fair Realism (1989) | |
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| Wild Gardens Overlooked by Night Lights | |
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| La Noche Entra en Calor | |
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| The View from Kandinsky's Window | |
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| The Thread | |
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| Ilex | |
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| Spring Vine | |
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| Dora Maar | |
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| An Emphasis Falls on Reality | |
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| Valuable Moerike | |
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| The Rose Marble Table | |
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| Shuffling Light | |
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| The Screen of Distance | |
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| Heavy Violets | |
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| The Farewell Stairway (after Balla) | |
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| Words | |
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| Twilight Polka Dots | |
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| The Nude | |
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| Western Additives | |
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| In Medieval Hollow | |
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| Bleat | |
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| Ropes Sway/Country Cousins | |
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| Savannahs | |
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| The Cradle of Culture | |
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| Lawn Bumps | |
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| Tessera | |
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| Defensive Rapture (1993) | |
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| Paulownia | |
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| Dove | |
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| Expectation | |
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| Geese Blood | |
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| Fleet of White | |
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| Atmospheres | |
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| The Surface as Object | |
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| II. | |
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| Defensive Rapture | |
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| Beautiful/Evil | |
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| Borrowed Mirror, Filmic Rise | |
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| Restlessness | |
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| Chalk | |
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| III. | |
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| Borderlands | |
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| Dissonance Royal Traveller | |
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| The Advance of the Grizzly | |
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| The Glass Mountain | |
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| Otranto | |
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| Winter Horses | |
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| IV. | |
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| The Altos | |
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| Stripped Tales (1995) with Artist Anne Dunn | |
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| structured / immediacy | |
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| / lottery can guess | |
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| the moment / a noun / settles into space | |
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| / germination begins | |
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| undermining / | |
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| opposing ides / | |
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| / which-away | |
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| philosophy / in Norway | |
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| moody / adjectivalness | |
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| need / to identify | |
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| odd / pagination | |
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| property / mix-up | |
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| / selfdom | |
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| a venetian / pallor | |
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| ice / buttons | |
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| history / ambushed | |
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| klebnikov lootage / | |
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| useful / techniques | |
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| loose grams / of nutmeg | |
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| typestry / | |
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| ghost / aboard | |
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| the French woman / beckoned | |
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| moment / of ingenuity | |
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| antiquity / | |
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| what we say / | |
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| empathetic / chimes | |
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| law / of the ether | |
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| Bergson's Law / | |
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| magicked / | |
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| the position / anarchical | |
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| photo / mirage | |
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| Quill, Solitary Apparition (1996) | |
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| Finally, to the Italian Girl | |
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| Garment | |
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| Fell, Darkly | |
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| Pallor | |
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| Leaving Modernity | |
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| Cold and its Demeanour | |
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| Quill, Solitary Apparition | |
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| If So, Tell Me (1999) | |
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| Valorous Vine | |
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| Storytelling | |
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| Outside of This, That Is | |
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| In Slow Motion | |
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| Doubleness | |
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| Dora Films | |
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| Lily | |
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| The poetry Meter | |
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| The Lull | |
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| Russet Flame | |
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| Unusual Figures | |
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| If So, Tell me | |
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| The Luminous | |
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| Strings | |
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| Deception | |
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| Athletic Writing | |
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| Faery Land | |
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| The Paris Lectures | |
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| The Green Fly | |
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| Confession of My Images | |
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| Effervescence | |
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| The Strum | |
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| Music History | |
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| Sideways | |
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| The Confetti Trees (1999) | |
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| Overboard | |
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| The Tear | |
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| The Cough | |
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| Trousers for Extras | |
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| Nostalgia | |
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| The Guerilla Reporters | |
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| Confucious | |
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| Color | |
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| Nuns | |
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| Corelli | |
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| The Vanished Library | |
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| "Lonely Mess" | |
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| Lubitsch | |
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| Noise | |
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| Preparedness | |
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| "Moments Before..." | |
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| The Dream Motion Picture; A Proposal for Animation | |
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| Nemesia | |
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| The Aromas | |
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| Falling in Love | |
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| Details | |
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| The Confetti Trees | |
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| Romance | |
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| No Words | |
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| Screening Room Notes | |
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| The Minus Ones | |
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| Scenario-iste | |
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| Celluloid | |
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| Ars, Longa | |
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| Metropolis | |
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| Enchantment | |
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| Simultaneity | |
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| The Spell of Beauty | |
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| The Utmost Unreality | |
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| Disappearance | |
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| Rocks On a Platter (1999) | |
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| "Ideas. As they find themselves..." | |
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| "And the words linger, deciding which direction to take..." | |
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| "Intimacy of tone..." | |
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| "Without shyness or formality..." | |
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| Symbiosis (2000) | |
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| Symbiosis | |
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| Originally appeared with artwork by Laurie Reid | |
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| Minatures and Other Poems (2002) | |
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| Miniatures | |
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| Shabby Boot | |
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| Bird of Art | |
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| Spirit Tree | |
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| Turret | |
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| Negative Possibility | |
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| Camisole | |
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| Tiny Foreign Tears | |
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| Transcription | |
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| Lost Speech | |
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| First Prints | |
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| Yesterday | |
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| Pilgrimage | |
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| Finnish Opera | |
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| Photographs | |
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| Petticoat | |
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| Blue | |
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| Arthur | |
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| Autobiography | |
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| Noisetone | |
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| Fourteenth of July | |
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| Chekhovania | |
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| Coal | |
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| Colonial Hours | |
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| Sound and Structure | |
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| Musicianship | |
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| Pathos | |
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| Blurred Edge | |
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| Durer in the Window, Reflexions on Art (2003) | |
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| Poetry | |
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| Lunch at Helen Frankenthaler's | |
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| On a Painting by Hayden Stubbing | |
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| Homage | |
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| The Red Gaze (2005) | |
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| Nostalgia | |
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| An Afternoon in Jeopardy | |
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| Imagined Room | |
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| Loneliness | |
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| A Different Honey | |
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| A Short Narrative | |
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| Freedom | |
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| Alteration | |
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| A Burst of Leaves | |
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| The Next Floor | |
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| Roman Stripes | |
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| The Trickster | |
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| The Hungry Knight | |
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| The Past | |
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| Modernism | |
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| Green Numbers | |
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| Stair of Our Youth | |
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| A Noise of Return | |
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| Freed Color | |
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| The Gold Tap | |
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| Minimal Sound | |
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| The Brown Vest 2 | |
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| The Red Gaze | |
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| A Dawn Walk | |
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| No Longer Strangers | |
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| Hans Hofmann | |
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| Vignettes | |
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| Echoes | |
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| Instructions | |
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| Composition | |
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| Supposition | |
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| Last Poems | |
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| In the Hotel | |
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| Constable's Method Brightening Near the Bridge | |
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| Beginning of Rain Notes | |
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| Shelley in the Navy-Colored Chair | |
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| Storytelling | |
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| Elf | |
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| Hotel Comfort | |