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A Short Chronology |
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Madrigal for a Dead Cat Named Julia |
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4 | (1) |
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5 | (4) |
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9 | (1) |
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10 | (1) |
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10 | (1) |
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11 | (1) |
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12 | (1) |
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The Muse Considered as a Demon Lover |
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12 | (1) |
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Poem (At night Chinamen jump) |
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13 | (1) |
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Poem (The eager note on my door said ``Call me,) |
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14 | (1) |
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15 | (1) |
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15 | (1) |
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16 | (1) |
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17 | (1) |
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18 | (1) |
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19 | (1) |
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20 | (1) |
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A Walk on Sunday Afternoon |
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20 | (1) |
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21 | (1) |
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22 | (1) |
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A Pleasant Thought from Whitehead |
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23 | (1) |
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Poem (The flies are getting slower now) |
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24 | (1) |
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25 | (1) |
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26 | (1) |
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26 | (1) |
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Ode on Saint Cecilia's Day |
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27 | (2) |
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Poem (God! love! sun! all dear and singular things!) |
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29 | (1) |
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30 | (1) |
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30 | (2) |
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32 | (1) |
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33 | (1) |
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34 | (1) |
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34 | (1) |
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A Poem in Envy of Cavalcanti |
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35 | (1) |
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35 | (1) |
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36 | (1) |
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37 | (1) |
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Night Thoughts in Greenwich Village |
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38 | (1) |
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Poem (All the mirrors in the world) |
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39 | (1) |
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Poem (Although I am a half hour) |
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39 | (1) |
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Poem (If I knew exactly why the chestnut tree) |
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40 | (1) |
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Poem (Let's take a walk, you) |
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41 | (1) |
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Poem (The clouds ache bleakly) |
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42 | (1) |
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Poem (The ivy is trembling in the hammock) |
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42 | (1) |
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Poem (The stars are tighter) |
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43 | (1) |
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44 | (1) |
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45 | (1) |
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45 | (1) |
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46 | (1) |
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47 | (1) |
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48 | (1) |
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48 | (1) |
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49 | (1) |
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49 | (1) |
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50 | (1) |
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51 | (1) |
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52 | (1) |
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53 | (1) |
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54 | (1) |
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55 | (1) |
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55 | (1) |
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A Postcard from John Ashbery |
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56 | (1) |
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Poem (Ivy invades the statue.) |
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57 | (1) |
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57 | (1) |
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58 | (1) |
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58 | (1) |
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59 | (1) |
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60 | (1) |
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Poem (I ran through the snow like a young Czarevitch!) |
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60 | (1) |
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A Sonnet for Jane Freilicher |
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61 | (1) |
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61 | (1) |
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62 | (1) |
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On Looking at La Grande Jatte, the Czar Wept Anew |
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63 | (1) |
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64 | (3) |
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67 | (1) |
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68 | (1) |
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68 | (1) |
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The Tomb of Arnold Schoenberg |
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69 | (1) |
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69 | (1) |
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70 | (1) |
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71 | (1) |
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72 | (1) |
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73 | (1) |
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74 | (1) |
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75 | (1) |
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75 | (2) |
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Ashes on Saturday Afternoon |
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77 | (1) |
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78 | (1) |
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78 | (1) |
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79 | (1) |
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80 | (1) |
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80 | (1) |
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81 | (1) |
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Walking with Larry Rivers |
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82 | (1) |
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82 | (1) |
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83 | (1) |
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Elegy (Ecstatic and in anguish over lost days) |
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83 | (1) |
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Elegy (Salt water. and faces dying) |
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84 | (1) |
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85 | (2) |
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87 | (1) |
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87 | (1) |
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88 | (1) |
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89 | (1) |
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90 | (1) |
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91 | (1) |
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92 | (1) |
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The Next Bird to Australia |
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92 | (1) |
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93 | (2) |
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95 | (1) |
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96 | (1) |
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96 | (4) |
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100 | (1) |
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Poem (The hosts of dreams and their impoverished minions) |
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101 | (1) |
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102 | (1) |
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102 | (1) |
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103 | (2) |
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October 26 1952 10:30 O'Clock |
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105 | (1) |
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106 | (1) |
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106 | (1) |
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107 | (1) |
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108 | (1) |
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Poem (He can rest. He has blessed him and hurt him) |
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109 | (1) |
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109 | (1) |
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Snapshot for Boris Pasternak |
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110 | (4) |
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114 | (1) |
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115 | (1) |
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116 | (1) |
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117 | (4) |
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121 | (1) |
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121 | (2) |
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123 | (1) |
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124 | (1) |
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125 | (1) |
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125 | (1) |
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126 | (1) |
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126 | (1) |
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127 | (1) |
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128 | (1) |
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Study for Women on a Beach |
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128 | (1) |
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129 | (1) |
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130 | (1) |
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130 | (1) |
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Sonnet (Lampooning blizzards, how your ocularities) |
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131 | (1) |
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131 | (1) |
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132 | (1) |
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Poem (When your left arm twitches) |
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133 | (1) |
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133 | (1) |
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[Then the weather changed.] |
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134 | (1) |
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134 | (1) |
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Very Rainy Light, An Eclogue |
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135 | (1) |
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136 | (1) |
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137 | (1) |
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Sonnet for Larry Rivers & His Sister |
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138 | (1) |
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138 | (1) |
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139 | (11) |
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150 | (1) |
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3 Poems about Kenneth Koch |
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151 | (1) |
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152 | (1) |
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Poem (He sighted her at the moment of recall.) |
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153 | (1) |
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154 | (1) |
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155 | (4) |
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On Rachmaninoff's Birthday (Quick! a last poem before I go) |
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159 | (1) |
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160 | (1) |
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160 | (1) |
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Sneden's Landing Variations |
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161 | (3) |
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164 | (1) |
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Poem (I am not sure there is a cure,) |
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165 | (1) |
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Romanze, or The Music Students |
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165 | (2) |
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167 | (1) |
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Lines to a Depressed Friend |
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168 | (1) |
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168 | (1) |
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169 | (1) |
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170 | (1) |
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Poem (Now it is light, now it is the calm) |
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171 | (1) |
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171 | (1) |
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172 | (1) |
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173 | (1) |
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173 | (2) |
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175 | (1) |
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175 | (1) |
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On a Passage in Beckett's Watt & About Geo. Montgomery |
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176 | (1) |
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176 | (1) |
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Poem (The little roses, the black majestic sails) |
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177 | (1) |
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Lines Written in A Raw Youth |
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177 | (1) |
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178 | (2) |
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180 | (1) |
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181 | (1) |
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181 | (1) |
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To Jane; And in Imitation of Coleridge |
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182 | (3) |
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185 | (1) |
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186 | (1) |
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186 | (1) |
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187 | (1) |
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Lines While Reading Coleridge's ''The Picture`` |
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188 | (1) |
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188 | (1) |
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On Rachmaninoff's Birthday (Blue windows, blue rooftops) |
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189 | (1) |
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On Rachmaninoff's Birthday (I am so glad that Larry Rivers made a) |
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190 | (1) |
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190 | (2) |
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192 | (1) |
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192 | (2) |
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194 | (1) |
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Homage to Pasternak's Cape Mootch |
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195 | (1) |
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Ode (An idea of justice may be precious) |
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195 | (2) |
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Meditations in an Emergency |
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197 | (1) |
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To the Mountains in New York |
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198 | (2) |
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3 Requiems for a Young Uncle |
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200 | (1) |
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201 | (1) |
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For Janice and Kenneth to Voyage |
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202 | (1) |
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203 | (1) |
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203 | (1) |
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204 | (1) |
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205 | (1) |
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On the Way to the San Remo |
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205 | (1) |
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206 | (3) |
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[July is over and there's very little trace] |
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209 | (1) |
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210 | (1) |
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211 | (1) |
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Poem (Tempestuous breaths! we watch a girl) |
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211 | (1) |
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Christmas Card to Grace Hartigan |
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212 | (1) |
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2 Poems from the OHara Monogatari |
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212 | (1) |
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213 | (1) |
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214 | (1) |
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Love (A whispering far away) |
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214 | (1) |
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Poem (I watched an armory combing its bronze bricks) |
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215 | (1) |
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Poem (There I could never be a boy,) |
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216 | (1) |
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217 | (1) |
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218 | (1) |
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Poem (Pawing the mound with his hairy legs) |
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219 | (1) |
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220 | (1) |
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220 | (1) |
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221 | (1) |
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Sonnet (The blueness of the hour) |
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222 | (1) |
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Poem (The eyelid has its storms. There is the opaque fish-) |
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223 | (1) |
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223 | (1) |
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A Whitman's Birthday Broadcast with Static |
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224 | (1) |
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224 | (1) |
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Poem (Johnny and Alvin are going home, are sleeping now) |
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225 | (1) |
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Goodbye to Great Spruce Head Island |
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226 | (1) |
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226 | (1) |
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227 | (1) |
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228 | (2) |
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230 | (1) |
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231 | (1) |
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To the Film Industry in Crisis |
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232 | (1) |
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233 | (1) |
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On Seeing Larry Rivers' Washington Crossing the Delaware at the Museum of Modern Art |
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233 | (1) |
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234 | (1) |
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235 | (1) |
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235 | (1) |
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236 | (1) |
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Poem (All of a sudden all the world) |
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237 | (1) |
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237 | (1) |
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238 | (1) |
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239 | (1) |
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240 | (1) |
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240 | (1) |
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241 | (1) |
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242 | (1) |
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242 | (1) |
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242 | (1) |
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243 | (1) |
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Poem (And tomorrow morning at 8 o'clock in Springfield, Massachusetts,) |
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244 | (1) |
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Poem (Instant coffee with slightly sour cream) |
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244 | (1) |
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245 | (1) |
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246 | (1) |
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246 | (1) |
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247 | (1) |
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248 | (4) |
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252 | (1) |
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252 | (5) |
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257 | (1) |
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258 | (1) |
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259 | (1) |
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259 | (1) |
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Digression on Number 1, 1948 |
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260 | (1) |
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[It seems far away and gentle now] |
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261 | (1) |
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261 | (1) |
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262 | (1) |
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263 | (2) |
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Poem Read at Joan Mitchell's |
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265 | (2) |
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267 | (1) |
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268 | (1) |
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269 | (1) |
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270 | (1) |
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Poem (I will always love you) |
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271 | (1) |
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272 | (1) |
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273 | (1) |
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273 | (1) |
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274 | (1) |
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275 | (2) |
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277 | (1) |
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278 | (1) |
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279 | (1) |
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280 | (1) |
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281 | (1) |
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Poem (To be idiomatic in a vacuum,) |
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282 | (1) |
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282 | (1) |
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283 | (3) |
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Poem (I live above a dyke bar and I'm happy.) |
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286 | (1) |
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286 | (1) |
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287 | (3) |
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290 | (1) |
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Ode to Michael Goldberg ('s Birth and Other Births) |
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290 | (8) |
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298 | (1) |
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299 | (1) |
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Ode (to Joseph LeSueur) on the Arrow That Flieth by Day |
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300 | (1) |
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301 | (1) |
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301 | (1) |
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302 | (1) |
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Fantasia (on Russian Verses) for Alfred Leslie |
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303 | (2) |
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Ode: Salute to the French Negro Poets |
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305 | (1) |
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A True Account of Talking to the Sun at Fire Island |
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306 | (2) |
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Places for Oscar Salvador |
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308 | (1) |
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Poem (Today the mail didn't come) |
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309 | (1) |
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309 | (1) |
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With Barbara Guest in Paris |
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310 | (1) |
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Far from the Porte des Lilas and the Rue Pergolese |
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311 | (1) |
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311 | (1) |
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312 | (1) |
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312 | (1) |
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Two Russian Exiles: An Ode |
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313 | (1) |
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314 | (1) |
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315 | (1) |
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315 | (2) |
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317 | (2) |
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319 | (1) |
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The Lay of the Romance of the Associations |
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320 | (1) |
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On Rachmaninoff's Birthday (It is your 86th birthday) |
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321 | (1) |
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322 | (1) |
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[The sad thing about life is] |
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323 | (1) |
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Image of the Buddha Preaching |
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323 | (1) |
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324 | (1) |
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325 | (1) |
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325 | (2) |
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327 | (1) |
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327 | (1) |
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Adieu to Norman, Bon Jour to Joan and Jean-Paul |
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328 | (1) |
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329 | (2) |
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You Are Gorgeous and I'm Coming |
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331 | (1) |
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Poem (The fluorescent tubing burns like a bobby-soxer's ankles) |
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331 | (1) |
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332 | (1) |
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''L'Amour avait passe par la`` |
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333 | (1) |
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Poem (Hate is only one of many responses) |
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333 | (1) |
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Poem (I don't know as I get what D. H. Lawrence is driving at) |
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334 | (1) |
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335 | (1) |
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Post the Lake Poets Ballad |
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336 | (1) |
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337 | (1) |
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September 14, 1959 (Moon) |
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338 | (1) |
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Variations on Pasternak's ''Mein Liebchen, Was Willst du Noch Mehr?`` |
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339 | (1) |
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Poem (Krushchev is coming on the right day!) |
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340 | (1) |
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Getting Up Ahead of Someone (Sun) |
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341 | (1) |
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341 | (1) |
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342 | (1) |
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343 | (1) |
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344 | (1) |
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344 | (1) |
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Poem (Now it is the 27th) |
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345 | (1) |
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Poem (Now the violets are all gone, the rhinoceroses, the cymbals) |
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346 | (1) |
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346 | (1) |
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347 | (2) |
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Poem ''A la recherche d' Gertrude Stein`` |
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349 | (1) |
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Variations on the ``Tree of Heaven'' (In the Janis Gallery) |
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349 | (1) |
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Poem (Light clarity avocado salad in the morning) |
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350 | (1) |
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350 | (1) |
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Poem (Wouldn't it be funny) |
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351 | (1) |
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Poem (So many echoes in my head) |
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352 | (1) |
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352 | (1) |
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Poem (That's not a cross look it's a sign of life) |
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353 | (1) |
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354 | (1) |
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355 | (1) |
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Now That I Am in Madrid and Can Think |
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356 | (1) |
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Derange sur un Pont de l'Adour |
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357 | (1) |
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357 | (1) |
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358 | (1) |
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359 | (1) |
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359 | (1) |
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360 | (1) |
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Song (I am stuck in traffic in a taxicab) |
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361 | (1) |
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An Airplane Whistle (After Heine) |
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361 | (1) |
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Trying to Figure Out What You Feel |
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361 | (2) |
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Glazunoviana, or Memorial Day |
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363 | (1) |
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363 | (1) |
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364 | (2) |
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Poem (Some days I feel that I exude a fine dust) |
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366 | (1) |
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366 | (1) |
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Poem (O sole mio, hot diggerty, nix ``I wather think I can'') |
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367 | (1) |
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Song (Did you see me walking by the Buick Repairs?) |
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367 | (1) |
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367 | (1) |
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368 | (1) |
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369 | (1) |
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370 | (1) |
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371 | (1) |
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372 | (1) |
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Those Who Are Dreaming, A Play About St. Paul |
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373 | (2) |
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Tonight at the Versailles, or Another Card Another Cabaret |
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375 | (1) |
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375 | (1) |
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376 | (3) |
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A Short History of Bill Berkson |
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379 | (1) |
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380 | (1) |
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380 | (1) |
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The Mother of German Drama |
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381 | (1) |
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382 | (1) |
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Poem (It was snowing and now) |
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382 | (1) |
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Lines During Certain Pieces of Music |
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383 | (1) |
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384 | (1) |
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You at the Pump (History of North and South) |
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385 | (1) |
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386 | (1) |
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387 | (1) |
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[The light comes on by itself] |
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388 | (1) |
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388 | (1) |
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For the Chinese New Year & for Bill Berkson |
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389 | (4) |
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393 | (1) |
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394 | (1) |
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395 | (1) |
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To Canada (For Washington's Birthday) |
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396 | (1) |
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On a Birthday of Kenneth's |
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396 | (1) |
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397 | (1) |
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The Anthology of Lonely Days |
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398 | (1) |
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Vincent and I Inaugurate a Movie Theatre |
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399 | (1) |
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400 | (1) |
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401 | (1) |
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402 | (1) |
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At Kamin's Dance Bookshop |
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403 | (1) |
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Pistachio Tree at Chateau Noir |
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403 | (1) |
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404 | (1) |
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404 | (1) |
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Poem (Twin spheres full of fur and noise) |
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405 | (1) |
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406 | (1) |
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407 | (1) |
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Drifts of a Thing That Bill Berkson Noticed |
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408 | (1) |
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F.Y.I. (The Brasserie Goes to the Lake) |
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409 | (1) |
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410 | (1) |
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F.O.I. (A Vision of Westminster Abbey) |
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411 | (1) |
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Summer Breezes (F.Y.(M.)M.B.I.) |
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412 | (1) |
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413 | (1) |
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Bill's School of New York (F.I.R.) |
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414 | (1) |
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415 | (2) |
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A Chardin in Need of Cleaning |
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417 | (1) |
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On Rachmaninoff's Birthday #158 |
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418 | (1) |
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On Rachmaninoff's Birthday #161 |
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419 | (1) |
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F. (Missive & Walk) I. #53 |
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420 | (1) |
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421 | (1) |
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422 | (1) |
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Favorite Painting in the Metropolitan |
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423 | (1) |
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424 | (1) |
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425 | (2) |
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427 | (1) |
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428 | (1) |
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428 | (1) |
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Yesterday Down at the Canal |
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429 | (1) |
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Weather near St. Bridget's Steeples |
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430 | (1) |
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431 | (1) |
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431 | (1) |
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432 | (1) |
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433 | (1) |
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434 | (1) |
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435 | (1) |
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For Bill Berkson (On Again Looking into Saturday Night) |
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436 | (1) |
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Biotherm (For Bill Berkson) |
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436 | (13) |
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Poem (Lana Turner has collapsed!) |
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449 | (1) |
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Poem (Dee Dum, dee dum, dum dum, dee da) |
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449 | (1) |
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450 | (1) |
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Poem (Signed ``The Seeing Eye'') |
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451 | (1) |
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451 | (1) |
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452 | (1) |
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453 | (2) |
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455 | (1) |
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New Particles from the Sun |
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455 | (2) |
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457 | (1) |
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458 | (1) |
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Political Poem on a Last Line of Pasternak's |
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459 | (1) |
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460 | (1) |
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460 | (2) |
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462 | (1) |
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463 | (1) |
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464 | (1) |
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Lines for the Fortune Cookies |
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465 | (2) |
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467 | (1) |
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Answer to Voznesensky & Evtushenko |
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468 | (1) |
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469 | (1) |
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Poem (At the top of the rung) |
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469 | (1) |
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470 | (1) |
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Again, John Keats, or the Pot of Basil |
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471 | (1) |
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Poem (The Cambodian grass is crushed) |
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472 | (1) |
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472 | (1) |
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473 | (1) |
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On Rachmaninoff's Birthday & About Arshile Gorky |
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474 | (1) |
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474 | (1) |
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475 | (1) |
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476 | (1) |
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Poem (I to you and you to me the endless oceans of) |
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477 | (1) |
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At the Bottom of the Dump There's Some Sort of Bugle |
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478 | (1) |
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479 | (1) |
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479 | (1) |
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Here in New York We Are Having a Lot of Trouble with the World's Fair |
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480 | (1) |
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481 | (1) |
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Should We Legalize Abortion? |
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482 | (1) |
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483 | (1) |
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484 | (1) |
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484 | (1) |
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485 | (1) |
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486 | (2) |
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488 | (1) |
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489 | (1) |
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489 | (1) |
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490 | (1) |
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Little Elegy for Antonio Machado |
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491 | (82) |
THE ESSAYS |
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495 | (3) |
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498 | (2) |
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[Statement for The New American Poetry] |
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500 | (1) |
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About Zhivago and His Poems |
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501 | (9) |
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[Statement for Paterson Society] |
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510 | (2) |
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512 | (7) |
NOTES |
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519 | (39) |
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558 | (1) |
INDEXES |
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559 | (14) |
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