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Introduction | p. xi |
Chronology | p. xxiv |
Early Poems | |
The Balance Wheel (1958) | p. 3 |
An Obsessive Combination of Ontological Inscape, Trickery and Love (1959) | p. 4 |
My Friend, My Friend (1959) | p. 5 |
from To Bedlam and Part Way Back (1960) | |
You, Doctor Martin | p. 9 |
Kind Sir: These Woods | p. 11 |
Music Swims Back to Me | p. 12 |
Elizabeth Gone | p. 13 |
Some Foreign Letters | p. 14 |
Said the Poet to the Analyst | p. 17 |
Her Kind | p. 18 |
Unknown Girl in the Maternity Ward | p. 19 |
What's That | p. 21 |
The Moss of His Skin | p. 22 |
Ringing the Bells | p. 23 |
Lullaby | p. 24 |
The Lost Ingredient | p. 25 |
For John, Who Begs Me Not to Enquire Further | p. 26 |
The Double Image | p. 28 |
The Division of Parts | p. 35 |
from All My Pretty Ones (1962) | |
The Truth the Dead Know | p. 43 |
All My Pretty Ones | p. 44 |
Young | p. 46 |
Lament | p. 47 |
To a Friend Whose Work Has Come to Triumph | p. 48 |
The Starry Night | p. 49 |
Old Dwarf Heart | p. 50 |
I Remember | p. 51 |
The Operation | p. 52 |
The Abortion | p. 56 |
With Mercy for the Greedy | p. 57 |
In the Deep Museum | p. 59 |
The Fortress | p. 61 |
Old | p. 63 |
Housewife | p. 64 |
Letter Written on a Ferry While Crossing Long Island Sound | p. 65 |
For Eleanor Boylan Talking with God | p. 68 |
The Black Art | p. 69 |
from Live or Die (1966) | |
And One for My Dame | p. 73 |
Flee on Your Donkey | p. 75 |
Somewhere in Africa | p. 82 |
Consorting with Angels | p. 83 |
The Legend of the One-Eyed Man | p. 85 |
Protestant Easter | p. 88 |
For the Year of the Insane | p. 91 |
Walking in Paris | p. 94 |
Menstruation at Forty | p. 96 |
Wanting to Die | p. 98 |
Little Girl, My Stringbean, My Lovely Woman | p. 100 |
Your Face on the Dog's Neck | p. 103 |
Self in 1958 | p. 106 |
In the Beach House | p. 108 |
Cripples and Other Stories | p. 109 |
Pain for a Daughter | p. 112 |
The Addict | p. 114 |
Live | p. 116 |
from Love Poems (1969) | |
The Breast | p. 123 |
In Celebration of My Uterus | p. 125 |
Loving the Killer | p. 127 |
For My Lover, Returning to His Wife | p. 130 |
It Is a Spring Afternoon | p. 132 |
Just Once | p. 134 |
You All Know the Story of the Other Woman | p. 135 |
The Ballad of the Lonely Masturbator | p. 136 |
The Papa and Mama Dance | p. 138 |
Us | p. 140 |
Mr. Mine | p. 141 |
Song for a Lady | p. 142 |
from Eighteen Days Without You | p. 143 |
December 2 | |
December 11 | |
December 18 | |
from Transformations (1971) | |
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs | p. 149 |
Rapunzel | p. 154 |
One-Eye, Two-Eyes, Three-Eyes | p. 159 |
The Frog Prince | p. 164 |
Briar Rose (Sleeping Beauty) | p. 169 |
from The Book of Folly (1972) | |
from Thirty Poems | |
Mother and Daughter | p. 177 |
Dreaming the Breasts | p. 179 |
The Silence | p. 180 |
from The Death of the Fathers | p. 182 |
Oysters | |
How We Danced | |
The Boat | |
Santa | |
Angels of the Love Affair | p. 187 |
Angel of Fire and Genitals | |
Angel of Clean Sheets | |
Angel of Flight and Sleigh Bells | |
Angel of Hope and Calendars | |
Angel of Blizzards and Blackouts | |
Angel of Beach Houses and Picnics | |
from The Jesus Papers | |
Jesus Suckles | p. 191 |
Jesus Awake | p. 192 |
Jesus Asleep | p. 193 |
Jesus Raises Up the Harlot | p. 194 |
Jesus Cooks | p. 195 |
Jesus Summons Forth | p. 196 |
Jesus Dies | p. 197 |
Jesus Unborn | p. 199 |
The Author of the Jesus Papers Speaks | p. 200 |
from The Death Notebooks (1974) | |
For Mr. Death Who Stands with His Door Open | p. 203 |
The Death Baby | p. 205 |
Dreams | |
The Dy-dee Doll | |
Seven Times | |
Madonna | |
Max | |
Baby | |
from The Furies | p. 210 |
The Fury of Beautiful Bones | |
The Fury of Guitars and Sopranos | |
The Fury of Cooks | |
The Fury of Cocks | |
The Fury of Sunsets | |
The Fury of Sunrises | |
Clothes | p. 216 |
from O Ye Tongues | p. 218 |
First Psalm | |
Fourth Psalm | |
Eighth Psalm | |
Tenth Psalm | |
from The Awful Rowing Toward God (1975) | |
Rowing | p. 229 |
Riding the Elevator into the Sky | p. 231 |
When Man Enters Woman | p. 233 |
The Earth | p. 234 |
Jesus, the Actor, Plays the Holy Ghost | p. 236 |
Frenzy | p. 238 |
The God-Monger | p. 239 |
Small Wire | p. 241 |
The Rowing Endeth | p. 242 |
Posthumously Published Work | |
45 Mercy Street (1976) | |
from Beginning the Hegira | |
The Money Swing | p. 247 |
Food | p. 248 |
from Bestiary U.S.A. | |
Hornet | p. 249 |
Star-Nosed Mole | p. 250 |
Whale | p. 251 |
from The Divorce Papers | |
Where It Was At Back Then | p. 252 |
from Eating the Leftovers | |
Divorce, Thy Name Is Woman | p. 253 |
The Consecrating Mother | p. 255 |
Words for Dr. Y. (1978) | |
from Letters to Dr. Y. | |
[What has it come to, Dr. Y.] | p. 257 |
[I called him Comfort] | p. 259 |
[It's music you've never heard] | p. 260 |
[I'm dreaming the My Lai soldier again] | p. 261 |
from Scorpio, Bad Spider, Die: The Horoscope Poems | |
January 24th | p. 262 |
February 3rd | p. 263 |
February 21st | p. 264 |
from Last Poems | |
In Excelsis | p. 265 |
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