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Poet and cardiologist John Stone is a man of many voices. A gifted verse maker, he exhibits in his writing the qualities of a compassionate physician, a musician, linguist, naturalist, and down-to-earth yet whimsical grandfather, son, husband, and brother. Selections from four previous books together with twenty-two new works compose this exquisite volume, a “best of the best” sampling from a beloved poet.

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  1. Cover
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  1. Half title, More by the author, Title page, Copyright
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  1. Contents
  2. pp. v-viii
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  1. New Poems
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  1. Serenity Gardens
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  1. Tuesday at the Assisted Care Home
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  1. Frances
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  1. Visitation
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  1. Noon, Thursday
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  1. Patriot at the Pianoforte
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  1. After Surgery
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  1. Processional: A Follow-Up
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  1. Mosaics: Reflections from the Middle East
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  1. Baalbek
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  1. Jerash: Potsherds
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  1. Spiritual
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  1. Back through Time
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  1. Mount Sinai: Chasing the Sun
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  1. Caduceus
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  1. In Petra
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  1. Before Sleep
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  1. Jerusalem: Bedtime
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  1. Hydra: Greece
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  1. First Night Back in Atlanta
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  1. Distances
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  1. Looking for the Pal Theater
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  1. South Sycamore: The Horse
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  1. Halloween Impromptu
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  1. Imagine with Me Now the Final Room
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  1. The Tuileries
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  1. The Smell of Matches (1972)
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  1. Cadaver
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  1. To a Fourteen-Year-Old Girl in Labor and Delivery
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  1. Love Poem for a Son
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  1. A Thirty-Four-Year-Old Substitutes as Goalie in Little League Soccer Practice
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  1. Talking to the Family
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  1. Autopsy in the Form of an Elegy
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  1. Lines on a Misread Word
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  1. The Bottle
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  1. Getting to Sleep in New Jersey
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  1. Being There
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  1. Song for Tossing a Son
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  1. da capo
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  1. Coming Home
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  1. In All This Rain (1980)
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  1. He Makes a House Call
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  1. Love Poem at a Particular Breakfast for No Particular Woman
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  1. Losing a Voice in Summer
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  1. Love Poem Entirely of Clichés
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  1. A Cliché Poem for Your Leaving
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  1. Death
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  1. Double-Header
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  1. The Girl in the Hall
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  1. Helping with the Math Homework
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  1. Lessons in the Subjunctive
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  1. One Evening
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  1. Bringing Her Home
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  1. Looking Down into a Ditch
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  1. How I'd Have It
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  1. Building the Steps
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  1. Whittling: The Last Class
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  1. The Truck
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  1. Answering the Phone
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  1. Fugue
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  1. In All This Rain
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  1. Renaming the Streets (1985)
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  1. Early Sunday Morning
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  1. Rosemary
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  1. January: A Flight of Birds
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  1. Forecast
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  1. She in February
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  1. You Round the Bend
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  1. The Eclipse
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  1. Three for the Mona Lisa
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  1. Gaudeamus Igitur: A Valediction
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  1. The Pigeon Sonnets
  1. Homing Pigeon I
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  1. Homing Pigeon II
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  1. Homing Pigeon III
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  1. The (Messenger) Pigeon
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  1. Cooing in University College Quad The Lover-Pigeon Wakes Him Up at 5 A.M.
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  1. A Word from the Teacher
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  1. November
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  1. December
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  1. The Bass
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  1. Where Water Begins (1998)
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  1. Where Water Begins
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  1. Poem on an Accidental Xerox of Her Hand
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  1. October
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  1. Next Door
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  1. Holiday
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  1. The Good-bye, Good-Morning, Hello Poem
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  1. This Kind of Thing Doesn't Happen Often and When It Does You Should Pay Attention
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  1. He Attends Exercise Class—Once
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  1. After the Concert: A Confession
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  1. Oxford Poems
  1. 5 A.M., Sleepless in Merton Street
  2. pp. 136-137
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  1. Back to Oxford
  2. pp. 138-142
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  1. The Forest Fire
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  1. from The Lu Poems
  1. Doorway
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  1. Through the Window of the Cabin
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  1. Letter in the Form of a Poem
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  1. Talking with the Mockingbird
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  1. Elegy and Affirmation
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  1. Walking the Dog on the Night Before He Is to Be Fixed
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  1. Canticles of Time
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  1. Memory
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  1. Transplant
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  1. While Watching His Own Echocardiogram, He Welcomes In the New Year
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  1. Singing from the West Coast
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  1. Notes
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