Introduction |
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Editors' Note |
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"Misery Trail," "The Last Thing You See" |
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3 | (3) |
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"Patch Holllow," "Fork and the Field" |
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6 | (2) |
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"How I Learned to Sweep," "Homecoming" |
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8 | (4) |
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"An Orange at Merida," "Stand of Pine" |
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12 | (2) |
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"The Hour," "The Cafe Filtre" |
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14 | (3) |
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17 | (3) |
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"Keeping," "Someone Asks You" |
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20 | (2) |
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"Great Blue Heron," "Song for Sampson" |
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22 | (2) |
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"A New and Fervent Domesticity Has Seized Me," "For Patrick" |
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24 | (3) |
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"Whenever," "A Reply to My Peripatetic Friends" |
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27 | (2) |
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29 | (3) |
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"Emergency Haying," "Cows at Night," "Little Citizen, Little Survivor" |
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32 | (6) |
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"The Ice Man," "Neil Armstrong Shoots the Moon" |
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38 | (3) |
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41 | (5) |
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"Lola at Chow Time," "The Best Part of the Lobster" |
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46 | (2) |
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"Bronze Foot in a Glass Case," "My Last Morning with Steve Orlen" |
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48 | (2) |
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"Of Some Renown," "One Morning" |
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50 | (2) |
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"On Eight Mile," "Mars Poetica" |
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52 | (2) |
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"Landscape With Night Game," "Vermont Water" |
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54 | (2) |
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"Cold Was the Ground," "What We Do" |
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56 | (6) |
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"Lament of the Glaciers," "Falling Grounds" |
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62 | (2) |
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"Banality," "Mystery Farm Road" |
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64 | (4) |
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"The Alien," "Loosestrife" |
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68 | (2) |
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"By the Sweat of My Face," "To Hear and Hear," "The Star of `Interstate,'" "Chains" |
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70 | (6) |
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"Mother's Body," "Before the Interstate" |
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76 | (3) |
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"Oration: Half-Moon in Vermont," "A Fifteenth-Century Zen Master" |
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79 | (2) |
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"On the Mill Race," "The Century Plant" |
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81 | (2) |
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"Take Me Away, Roy Rogers," "Bios" |
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83 | (5) |
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"Barking Dog," "Green Bay Flies" |
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88 | (5) |
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"November Sunday Morning," "The Way to Remember Her" |
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93 | (2) |
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"A Killing Frost," "Take Bitter for Sweet" |
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95 | (3) |
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"Reading, Writing, and Orthophony," "All Men are Mortal" |
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98 | (2) |
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"The Orchard on its Way," "It Is Time" |
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100 | (2) |
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"Closed for Good," "Iris by Night," "The Draft Horse," "Wild Grapes" |
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102 | (6) |
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108 | (2) |
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"The Couple in the Park," "Burning Leaves," "Bats," "The Muse of Happiness" |
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110 | (4) |
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"The Summer I Spent Screwing In The Back Seats Of Station Wagons," "Old Home Day" |
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114 | (2) |
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"More Lies," "Listening to the Dead" |
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116 | (2) |
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"A Poultice," "The Golden Road" |
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118 | (3) |
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"In War Time," "The Kelly Stand" |
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121 | (3) |
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"So, Caravaggio," "Field in Snow" |
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124 | (2) |
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"Toilet Knuckles" "Wrestling to Lose" |
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126 | (2) |
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"My Father's Birth, Iowa, 1932," "This Is Water" |
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128 | (3) |
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"What Can You Tell Me about Your Father?" "Would You Repeat the Question Please?" |
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131 | (2) |
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133 | (2) |
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"Double View of the Adirondacks ..." "Enchanters of Addison County" |
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135 | (2) |
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"My Mother in the Afterlife," "A Day in the Life" |
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137 | (2) |
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"Letter to Myself," "Curriculum Vitae at 74" |
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139 | (2) |
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"Vapor Trail Reflected in the Frog Pond," "Fergus Falling," "Little Sleep's-Head Sprouting Hair in the Moonlight," "The Bear" |
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141 | (12) |
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"Fish Eggs," "In the Cranberry Bog" |
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153 | (3) |
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"Patchwork Quilt for a Congolese Refugee," "Ladyslipper, Red Eft" |
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156 | (5) |
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"Ortolans," "Speculation" |
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161 | (2) |
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163 | (4) |
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"Dubber's Cur," "I Was Thinking of Beauty," "Yellow House," "My Wife's Back" |
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167 | (9) |
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"Now and Then," "To a Skylark" |
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176 | (4) |
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"The Oat Bitch & the Old Man's Daughters," "For the Boy Saved from Drowning" |
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180 | (4) |
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"Runner Without a Number," "Chagall's Girl" |
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184 | (4) |
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188 | (3) |
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"Shelter," "Self-Storage" |
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191 | (2) |
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193 | (3) |
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"The Betweenness of Things," "Leaving" |
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196 | (4) |
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"The Snow Cat," "From a Neutral Country" |
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200 | (2) |
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"Parents," "A Couple of Trees" |
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202 | (3) |
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"Cursive," "Acceleration" |
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205 | (2) |
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"Wowing the Gods of Ephemera," "All the Little Losses" |
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207 | (3) |
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"Butchering the Pig," "Hill Journey" |
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210 | (2) |
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"My Sister Teaches Me to Walk on Water," "The Divide" |
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212 | (2) |
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"Domodossola," "Flora of the Boreal Floor" |
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214 | (3) |
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"What Is Metaphor For?" "Juno's First Fly-By" |
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217 | (3) |
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"Old Man Walking," "Rondo of the Familiar" |
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220 | (4) |
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"Animals And Art," "Getting Along" |
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224 | (2) |
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"Autumn," "House: Some Instructions," "On Mother's Day," "That Country" |
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226 | (9) |
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"The Insomniac Thinks of God," "Dead Reckoning" |
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235 | (2) |
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"Ever Since Breaking My Wrist," "The Singel Bridge at the Paleisstrat in Amsterdam, 1896" |
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237 | (3) |
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"W (I DO) W," "Kitchen Hints: Not to Enter Winter Empty Handed" |
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240 | (3) |
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"Bear Hunting In America," "What Moves" |
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243 | (2) |
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"From the Book of Condolences," "At The Swatch Store in Newark's Terminal C" |
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245 | (3) |
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"Naming the Waves," "The Engineers Taught Us" |
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248 | (2) |
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"Appalachian," "The Coast" |
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250 | (2) |
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"The Ambassador," "Note From Paradise" |
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252 | (4) |
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"A Bar at the Folies-Bergere" "Venus, Half-Dressed" |
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256 | (2) |
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258 | (4) |
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"Wintersault," "Jewelweed" |
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262 | (2) |
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"Cordless," "Fish and Blood" |
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264 | (2) |
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"Thatch""Four Corners, Vermont" |
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266 | (4) |
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"Daughter," "Unmemorized Man" |
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270 | (4) |
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274 | (3) |
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"Memoir," "North of Manhattan" |
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277 | (4) |
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"Waterfall at Journey's End," "Black Fly" |
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281 | (4) |
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"Two Eggs," "Tokyo, Near Ueno Station" |
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285 | (2) |
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"Our Fathers," "Mom's Grande Baroque" |
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287 | (3) |
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Samn Stockwelh "Bridle," "First Confession" |
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290 | (2) |
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"Elegy with a Darkness in My Palms," "Making Applesauce with My Dead Grandmother" |
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292 | (2) |
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"Memory," "Tenacity" "Speculation," "Train Ride" |
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294 | (4) |
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"Fernwood," "It was a Small Town" |
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298 | (3) |
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Ellen Bryant Voigt "Bear," "Headwaters," "Effort at Speech," "My Mother" |
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301 | (6) |
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"Evening Hawk,""Grackles, Goodbye," "Timeless, Twinned" |
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307 | (3) |
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310 | (2) |
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"Marble Town Epizeuxis," "Self-Portrait in the Convex Bumper of a Ford Woody" |
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312 | (4) |
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"Border Crossing," "Things to Pray to in Vermont" |
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316 | (4) |
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"Springtails," "Curiosity" |
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320 | (3) |
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323 | (2) |
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"Big Wind at Rockingham," "My Grandson Dreams" |
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325 | (3) |
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"Leaving," "Ode to Speech" |
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328 | (3) |
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"Away/Home," "Boughbreak" |
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331 | (2) |
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Contributors' Notes |
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333 | (18) |
Acknowledgments |
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