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The Tempering (1918) |
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Farrar Forgotten Shrines (1918) |
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"These were the meadow lands of his delight" |
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"I watched you as you turned and waited there" |
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Hamilton Four Gardens (1919) |
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Spires and Poplars (1919) |
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"O beautiful and reckless whom I loved" |
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"Sleep in this sacred earth, the strife is done" |
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The White God, and Other Poems (1919) |
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Where Lilith Dances (1919) |
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15 | (3) |
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Ere the Years Numbered Nine |
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Wild Geese (1920) |
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18 | (3) |
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Horizons (1920) |
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21 | (2) |
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Wampum and Old Gold (1920) |
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23 | (3) |
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Golden Darkness (1920) |
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26 | (2) |
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Two Pale Hands in the Night |
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All the Things I Yearned to Say |
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White April (1921) |
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28 | (2) |
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Dreams and a Sword (1921) |
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30 | (2) |
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Hidden Waters (1921) |
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32 | (3) |
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Attitudes (1921) |
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35 | (2) |
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The Last Lutanist (1922) |
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37 | (3) |
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Battle-Retrospect (1922) |
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40 | (5) |
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Silver Wands (1922) |
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45 | (2) |
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Mosaics (1922) |
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47 | (3) |
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Blake Up and Down (1923) |
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50 | (3) |
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Coach into Pumpkin (1924) |
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53 | (2) |
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Quest (1925) |
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55 | (2) |
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Because Your Heart Was Shy |
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High Passage (1925) |
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57 | (3) |
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Hubbell Dark Pavilion (1926) |
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60 | (2) |
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The Sealed Mouth to the Baffled Heart |
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Twist o' Smoke (1927) |
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62 | (2) |
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"We must not even think of faces known" |
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A Stranger and Afraid (1927) |
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64 | (3) |
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Mason The Unchanging Mask (1927) |
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67 | (2) |
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Hemlock Wall (1928) |
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69 | (3) |
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Half-Light and Overtones (1928) |
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72 | (3) |
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The Valley of the Muted Songbirds |
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Virtuosa (1929) |
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75 | (3) |
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Dark Certainty (1930) |
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78 | (3) |
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She Who Lies Motionless with an Arrow in Her Heart |
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Worn Earth (1931) |
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81 | (2) |
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The Dark Hills Under (1932) |
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83 | (3) |
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Permit Me Voyage (1933) |
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86 | (3) |
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Theory of Flight (1934) |
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89 | (4) |
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Effort at Speech Between Two People |
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The Deer Come Down (1935) |
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93 | (2) |
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The Gardener Mind (1936) |
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95 | (4) |
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The Connecticut River and Other Poems (1938) |
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99 | (1) |
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Return Again, Traveler (1939) |
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100 | (3) |
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"We came during those years" |
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For My People (1941) |
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103 | (3) |
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Love Letter from an Impossible Land (1943) |
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106 | (2) |
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Cut Is the Branch (1944) |
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108 | (3) |
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There Is Something to Be Said |
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Family Circle (1945) |
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111 | (4) |
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Poems (1946) |
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115 | (2) |
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It Is Not I Who Am Sleeping in the Rock |
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A Beginning (1947) |
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117 | (5) |
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Soft Swimmer, Winter Swan |
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The Grasshopper's Man and Other Poems (1948) |
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122 | (4) |
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A Change of World (1950) |
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126 | (3) |
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A Mask for Janus (1951) |
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129 | (3) |
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The Bones of Palinurus Pray to the North Star |
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Song with the Eyes Closed |
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Various Jangling Keys (1952) |
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132 | (3) |
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In Memory of Robert Menner |
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An Armada of Thirty Whales (1953) |
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135 | (3) |
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Some Trees (1955) |
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138 | (4) |
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Answering a Question in the Mountains |
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The Green Wall (1956) |
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142 | (3) |
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A Crackling of Thorns (1957) |
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145 | (3) |
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Of the Festivity (1958) |
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148 | (4) |
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Part Song, with Concert of Recorders |
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Bone Thoughts (1959) |
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152 | (7) |
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Cora Punctuated with Strawberries |
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Poems (1960) |
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159 | (3) |
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Views of Jeopardy (1961) |
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162 | (3) |
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Perspective He Would Mutter Going to Bed |
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The Abnormal Is Not Courage |
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It Is Clear Why the Angels Come No More |
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Manhattan Pastures (1962) |
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165 | (3) |
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The Breaking of the Day (1963) |
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168 | (3) |
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Dream Barker (1964) |
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171 | (3) |
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Asleep over Lines from Willa Cather |
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The Lost Pilot (1966) |
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174 | (4) |
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Coming Close (1967) |
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178 | (2) |
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Joy Sonnet in a Random Universe |
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Sherwin Uranium Poems (1968) |
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180 | (4) |
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Collecting Evidence (1969) |
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184 | (3) |
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Lugging Vegetables to Nantucket (1970) |
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187 | (5) |
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Field Guide (1972) |
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192 | (5) |
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Threats Instead of Trees (1973) |
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197 | (3) |
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The Beginning of Sympathy |
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Snow on Snow (1974) |
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200 | (4) |
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A Few Picnics in Illinois |
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Gathering the Tribes (1975) |
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204 | (3) |
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Beginning with O (1976) |
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207 | (6) |
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The Difference Between Night and Day (1977) |
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213 | (4) |
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Natural Histories (1978) |
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217 | (3) |
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His Early and Late Paintings |
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One Way to Reconstruct the Scene (1979) |
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220 | (3) |
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One Way to Reconstruct the Scene |
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Green Soldiers (1980) |
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223 | (3) |
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Rejects from the Greenhouse |
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Icehouse Lights (1981) |
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226 | (4) |
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Picture Bride (1982) |
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230 | (8) |
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The Evolution of the Flightless Bird (1983) |
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238 | (5) |
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The Evolution of the Flightless Bird |
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Navigable Waterways (1984) |
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243 | (7) |
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Terms to Be Met (1985) |
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250 | (3) |
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Above the Land (1986) |
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253 | (5) |
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Kelly To the Place of Trumpets (1987) |
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258 | (4) |
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Out of the Woods (1988) |
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262 | (9) |
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After a Terrible Thing Happened |
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Hermit with Landscape (1989) |
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271 | (4) |
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Bears Dancing in the Northern Air (1990) |
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275 | (3) |
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Hands of the Saddlemaker (1991) |
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278 | (5) |
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Stone Crop (1992) |
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283 | (3) |
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Sometimes I Went to a Dark Place |
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Of the Many Words for Snow |
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Thinking the World Visible (1993) |
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286 | (4) |
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That Which Is Fugitive, That Which Is Medicinally |
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Sweet or Alterable to Gold, That Which Is |
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Substantiated by Unscientific Means |
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Living in the Resurrection (1994) |
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290 | (3) |
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Cities of Memory (1995) |
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293 | (4) |
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Planiferia, Map of the World, Lisbon, 1554 |
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My Shining Archipelago (1996) |
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297 | (4) |
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Conversation with the Sun Bittern |
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Shells (1998) |
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301 | (6) |
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Ultima Thule (1999) |
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307 | (4) |
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The River and Under the River |
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Lawrence Booth's Book of Visions (2000) |
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311 | (3) |
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A Prayer Against Forgetting Boys |
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Discography (2001) |
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314 | (3) |
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The Sweet Obsession Bleeds from Singer |
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Famous Americans (2002) |
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317 | (6) |
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Cuckoo (2003) |
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323 | (2) |
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Memories Are Nothing, Today Is Important |
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Crush (2004) |
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325 | (5) |
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Green Squall (2005) |
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330 | (4) |
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Nothing to Do Now but Sit and Wait |
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And the Sunflower Weeps for the Sun, Its Flower |
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Frail-Craft (2006) |
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334 | (4) |
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The Earth in the Attic (2007) |
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338 | (4) |
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It Is Daylight (2008) |
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342 | (4) |
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From Speaking in the Fall |
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Juvenilia (2009) |
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346 | (5) |
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My Father and My Mother Decide My Future and How Could We Forget Wang Wei? |
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At Taipei Station, I Saw This City Undress! |
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Yes, No, Yes, the Future, Gone, Happy, Yes, No, Yes, Cut, You |
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Radial Symmetry (2010) |
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351 | (4) |
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Slow Lightning (2011) |
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355 | (5) |
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Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome |
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Monologue of a Vulture's Shadow |
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Westerly (2012) |
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360 | (4) |
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Fragment from a Coptic Tunic |
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Eruv (2013) |
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364 | (4) |
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The Disaster Takes Care of Everything |
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Blue Yodel (2014) |
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368 | (5) |
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The Destroyer in the Glass (2015) |
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373 | (4) |
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Simulacra (2016) |
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377 | (5) |
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IfMy Late Grandmother Were Gertrude Stein |
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Sexton Texts Tituba from a Bird Conservatory |
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We Play a Game (2017) |
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382 | (4) |
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The Roundworm Travels Up from the Foot |
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The Year of Blue Water (2018) |
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386 | (3) |
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The Yale Series of Younger Poets: Judges and Winners |
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389 | (4) |
Credits |
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