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Preface | |
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Introduction | |
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Many Are Called | |
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Eight Elegies | |
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Reading Plato | |
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Prologue | |
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Unworn | |
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Psalm (Traherne) | |
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Afterword | |
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[Final poem for the gently sifting public begins on the streets...] | |
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[I like your handsome drugs. Your pleasant...] | |
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[The thirst of the crowd. We laid the surfer down...] | |
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[The canals. The liquor coming through...] | |
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Ode to the Air Traffic Controller | |
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Poem to Line My Casket With, Ramona | |
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Zombie Sunday (Had We But World Enough and Time) | |
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Meditation on The Consolation of Philosophy | |
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Sleeping with Artemis | |
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Democratic Vistas | |
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April 13, 1865 | |
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Community College in the Rain | |
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From His Bed in the Capital City | |
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I Love How Your Eyes Close Every Time You Kiss Me | |
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Like a Face | |
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Anne Boleyn | |
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Pavese Said Death Will Come Bearing Your Eyes | |
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Just Yesterday | |
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All but Lost | |
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Groupie | |
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Slutty | |
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The Northern Sun | |
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Apparition | |
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Chrysalis | |
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Elegant Endings | |
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We're Not Going to Malta | |
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Perfect City Code | |
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How It Begins How It Ends | |
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Aesthetics | |
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Divorce | |
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Hamartia Symbolized by the Stray | |
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"Kelly, Ringling Bros. Oldest Elephant, Goes On Rampage" | |
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The Spots | |
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The Only Yak in Batesville, Virginia | |
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The Girls | |
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The Term | |
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Room 40 | |
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Transporter | |
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Thrillsville | |
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The Power Plant | |
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In Squire Park with M., Esquire | |
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Phantoms of Utopia | |
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Slowly, Slowly, Horses | |
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Ocean State | |
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Persephone (Unplugged) | |
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Paysage Moralise | |
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Morningside Park | |
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My Ravine | |
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Vermont | |
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Song for a Play | |
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Stealing from Your Mother | |
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The Elephant | |
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Long Goodbye | |
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Shelburne Falls | |
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Arbor | |
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Sweet Reader, Flanneled and Tulled | |
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Thirty Years Rising | |
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All the Natural Movements of the Soul | |
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The Unbosoming | |
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If You Are Asked | |
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How to Look at Mexican Highways | |
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Driven by a Strange Desire | |
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Golfers in the Family | |
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Twenty-Seven Props for a Production of Eine Lebenszeit | |
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Three Panels Depending on the Heart | |
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The New Intelligence | |
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Birdsong from Inside the Egg | |
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The War Is Over | |
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Our Man | |
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Forensics | |
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Sticks | |
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Atomic Bride | |
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Slow Fade to Black | |
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Zapruder | |
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On Fire | |
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The Boxers | |
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Intermission | |
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Myths of the Disappearance | |
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Geburt des Monicakinds | |
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Stories from the Tower | |
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Childhood's House | |
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Miraculous Image | |
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Scold's Mask | |
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Subway | |
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Housefire | |
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Swarm | |
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Hive | |
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Emptying Town | |
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Cartoon Physics, part 1 | |
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Cartoon Physics, part 2 | |
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Flesh | |
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Nocturne | |
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The Hands of the Body Without the Body, and Nothing to Hold | |
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Colosseum | |
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Afterward, There Will Be a Hallway | |
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Berlin Series | |
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Nostalgia, Cheryl, Is the Best Heroin | |
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Saints | |
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Analogies | |
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The Last Living Castrato | |
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Not Body | |
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The Wolf | |
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Kiss of Judas | |
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Abandoned Conversation with the Senses | |
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Our Square of Lawn | |
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Ideas Go Only So Far | |
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Definition of Weather | |
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Pity the Bathtub Its Forced Embrace of the Human Form | |
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Wind in a Box | |
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The Blue Terrance | |
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The Elegant Tongue | |
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A Postcard from Okemah | |
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Talk | |
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As Western Culture Declined Without Its Knowing | |
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Where Spring Is | |
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My Wrist Split Open | |
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Corrections | |
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My Pieta | |
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Zombie | |
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The Pyramid | |
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Skin | |
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Rooms | |
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Submarine | |
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Explanation | |
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Sampler City | |
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Hume's Suicide of the External World | |
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Comprehension Questions | |
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Blunts | |
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Euphoria | |
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Pest | |
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Don Pullen at the Zanzibar Blue Jazz Cafe | |
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Poem Beginning with a Line by Frank Lima | |
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The New Life | |
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Song of the Chinchilla | |
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The United States of America | |
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The Girl Who Couldn't Be Loved | |
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Beggar's Song | |
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Kind of Blue | |
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Public Radio Plays Eddie Harris | |
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Author's Prayer | |
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Dancing in Odessa | |
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Maestro | |
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Orphean Song | |
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Mechanics | |
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The Gallery | |
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Subtraction Song | |
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Occupation | |
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Monologue for an Onion | |
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On Sparrows | |
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Empty House | |
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Letters to a Vanishing Fiancee | |
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Salvation | |
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My Psychic | |
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And Having Lost Track | |
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Porch in Snow | |
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Mariana Trench | |
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Orpheus. Eurydice. Hermes | |
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Bad Aliens | |
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An Ordinary Evening | |
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Gypsy Summer | |
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Civilization Day | |
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I Am Like a Desert Owl, an Owl Among the Ruins | |
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Sympathy and Envy | |
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A Dream of Mimesis | |
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In Las Vegas | |
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Ars Poetica (the idea) | |
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Chill Core | |
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Glass Heart | |
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Cinema Verite | |
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First | |
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A Condensed History of Beauty | |
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On Death | |
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On God | |
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"[O boss of ashes boss of dust...]" | |
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Hello | |
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The Babies | |
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The Mustache | |
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Transylvania, 1919 | |
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The Experiments Lasted Through the Winter | |
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Portrait of a Child | |
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Three Bridges | |
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After the Shipwreck | |
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I Was Buried in Janzoor | |
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Growing Up With a Sears Catalog in Benghazi, Libya | |
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Echo & Elixir 1 | |
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Echo & Elixir 2 | |
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Logic in the House of Sawed-Off Telescopes | |
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Lineage | |
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Opposites Attack | |
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The Archipelago of Kisses | |
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Dear America | |
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Still Life W/Influences | |
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The Wind Domes | |
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Persuasion | |
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Look | |
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With This Change to Indoor Lighting | |
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Rendered Dog | |
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Marriage Proposal | |
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Hearing Music Through Dark Trees | |
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Capstone | |
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Where Were You | |
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Driving Past My Exit | |
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The Vandals | |
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The Vandals Dying | |
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Practicing Their Diffidence, The Vandals | |
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[when you touch down upon this earth.little reindeers] | |
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[sleek mechanical dart: the syringe noses into the blue vein marking the target of me] | |
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[tall and thin and young and lovely the michael with kaposi's sarcoma goes walking] | |
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[writing for a young man on the redline train: "to his boy mistress"] | |
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[coda & discography] | |
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For the Unfortunates | |
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The End of the City | |
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A Car Has Fallen from a Bridge | |
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The Rise of Rome | |
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On Finding a Swastika Carved on a Tree in the Hills Above Heidelberg | |
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Corruption | |
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Scarecrow Eclogue | |
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Second Circle | |
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Evening with Stars | |
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Burial Practice | |
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Portofino | |
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Autumn Song | |
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The Clerk's Tale | |
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Strawberry | |
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Stupid | |
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What Was There to Bring Me to Delight But to Love and Be Loved? | |
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a crash of rhinos | |
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Childhood Stories | |
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from The World at Night | |
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My Government | |
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We Never Should Have Stopped at Pussy Island | |
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More Important Than the Design of Cities Will Be the Design of Their Decay | |
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Man-Torpedo-Boat | |
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Assembling My Shepherd | |
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Never Morocco | |
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Big Rig the Baroque Sky | |
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At Shedd Aquarium | |
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Chanel No. 5 | |
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Vampire Finch | |
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Woodpecker Finch | |
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House of Dior | |
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The Alphabetizer Speaks | |
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First Bookshelf | |
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What I Disliked About the Pleistocene Era | |
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Your Name on It | |
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Epithalament | |
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Postfeminism | |
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You Love, You Wonder | |
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Panopticon | |
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Boot Theory | |
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A Primer for the Small Weird Loves | |
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Saying Your Names | |
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Self-Portrait as the Letter Y | |
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History | |
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Duende | |
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localism or t/here | |
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December 1, 2002 | |
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December 4, 2002 | |
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January 28, 2003 | |
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One Thousand Bullfrogs Rejoice | |
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Meteor | |
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Holy Ghost | |
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Eohippus | |
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Elsewhere | |
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First person plural is a house | |
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Set for a Southern Gothic | |
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Detail From "Set for a Southern Gothic" | |
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Dead House Sonnet | |
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Trick Noir | |
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They Call You Moody | |
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Touch Me Not | |
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Modern Love | |
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Miscegenation | |
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Genus Narcissus | |
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Countess P-'s Advice for New Girls | |
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Native Guard | |
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Story for the Mother Tongue | |
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Next to Last Prayer | |
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Portraits at the Epicenter | |
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[Now I promise...] | |
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[If it be event...] | |
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The Case | |
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May | |
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Kiss Me Deadly | |
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The Miracles of St. Sebastian | |
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What Begins Bitterly Becomes Another Love Poem | |
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Hotel d'Avignon | |
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O Canada! | |
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As Hour and Year Collapsed | |
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Send New Beasts | |
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Narrative Poem | |
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Where I Stand with Regard to the Game | |
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Italics, Mine | |
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Nervous Systems | |
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Junkyard | |
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[Wind in bare vines...] | |
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Relict | |
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Coal Age | |
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The Fossil Garden | |
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Testimony | |
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Confession | |
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50 Years in the Career of an Aspiring Thug | |
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Advice | |
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Press Play | |
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Sybil | |
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Lamb, Willow: An Arch Dolefulness Has Taken Me This Far | |
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Amaryllis | |
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Voluntary Servitude | |
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Fourteen Things We're Allowed to Bring to the Underworld | |
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Predictions About a Black Car | |
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Naglfar | |
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Night Ferry to Naxos 1 | |
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Night Ferry to Naxos 2 | |
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Flatlanders | |
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Proximity | |
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Torn | |
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Infidelity | |
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Soundtrack | |
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The Rushes | |
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Negative | |
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Song of Smoke | |
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Errata | |
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Canada | |
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School Street | |
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Whoever You Are | |
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Credo | |
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Velocity Among the Ruins of Angel Republic | |
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Vertigo | |
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[from] Viatica | |
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Diary (Underworld) | |
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Not Knowing Nijinsky or Diaghilev | |
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In Your Version of Heaven I Am Younger | |
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Photo Credits | |
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Further Reading | |
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Acknowledgments | |
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Editors' Acknowledgments | |
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The Editors | |