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“Heaven & Earth Holding Company contains a plentitude of delights. Like little stories told in the night, these poems are clear narratives crossed by mysterious shadows. And Hodgen’s tone occupies a singular place at the intersection of funky wit and true feeling.”
—Billy Collins

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  1. Title Page, Copyright
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  1. Contents
  2. pp. vii-x
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  1. I   . . . must i remember? . . .
  1. Undiscovering America
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  1. Girl with Her Tongue Stuck Out
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  1. Just a Tranquil Darker
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  1. When Dylan Left Hibbing, Minnesota, August 1959
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  1. High Tide
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  1. Romance
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  1. Keats
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  1. Upon Reading in Elmore Leonard’s The Hot Kid that Church Pewsin the 1930s Were Made by Convicts
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  1. Killing Mice, December
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  1. Sorrow
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  1. Watson
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  1. Love Field
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  1. Poem to Be Read at 30,000 Feet
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  1. Man Drowns
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  1. Overflow
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  1. Witness
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  1. Them Shoes
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  1. Elvis, 1955
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  1. On the Occasion of My Two-Year-Old Granddaughter’s First Attemptsat an Elvis Impression, I Recall the Difficulties of Her Birth
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  1. II   . . . crawling between . . .
  1. At the Optometrist’s Office
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  1. Night Rain
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  1. After the Reading, Driving Back to Massachusetts with Jim Beschta,I Think of the Men Who Hold the World in Their Hands
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  1. Sleep Comes to Mary Todd Lincoln
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  1. Driving Back from Crotched Mountain, Winter Storm, New Year’s Eve
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  1. Brief History
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  1. For the Man with the Erection Lasting More than Four Hours
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  1. Upon Reading that a Noisy Cloth Factory Separated the Family Homesof Sandro Botticelli and Amerigo Vespucci
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  1. On Bethlehem’s Plain
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  1. Look, Look
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  1. For Lou Bishop, the Drunk Who Lived up the Road
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  1. History
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  1. Throwing Out the Marriage Bed
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  1. Teachers
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  1. News
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  1. Lisbon
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  1. Sirhan Sirhan
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  1. The Grief Counselor’s Day Off
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  1. Finding My Dead Father at the Worcester Art Museum
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  1. III . . . in your philosophy . . .
  1. Girl on the People Mover
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  1. Cross-Country
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  1. Yale
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  1. Saints
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  1. Bootleg
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  1. Mr. Muckle
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  1. Upon Reading on a Flight from Atlanta the Latest Slang Term for the Act of Defecation
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  1. Upon Seeing a Former Lover Pull Up Next to Me at the Intersection of Metaphysics Lane and Memorial Drive
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  1. Upon Reading a Poem Entitled “Upon Seeing a Former Lover Pull Up Next to Meat the Intersection of Metaphysics Lane and Memorial Drive”
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  1. On Hardly Ever Hearing Anyone Say Boy, Howdy Anymore
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  1. Easter
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  1. Blind Boy, Fourth of July
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  1. London Letter after the Subway Bombing
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  1. Dog Dying
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  1. Jackstaff, Jackstraw (tack and jib)
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  1. Declaration
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  1. Acknowledgments
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  1. Design
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