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"The astonishingly high level of performance throughout this collection of poems would take almost any reader by surprise." - Anthony Hecht

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  1. Frontmatter
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  1. Frontmatter
  2. pp. 3-6
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  1. Contents
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  1. Section I
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  1. Travel Plans
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  1. The Natural World
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  1. Still Life with Insects
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  1. Sightseers
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  1. The Ocean May Have Been the Last Thing She Saw
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  1. Illusion of Loss
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  1. My Old Man, Picking Lemons
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  1. The Suddenness of the Past
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  1. Augury
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  1. Returning Home
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  1. Middle Age
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  1. Section II
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  1. The Snail in the Marigold
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  1. Desert Prayer
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  1. The Peach Tree
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  1. Calla Lilies
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  1. Rainy Eclipse
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  1. Looking Back over San Marcos Pass
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  1. Indelibility
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  1. Metamorphosis
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  1. On Finding a Salamander in the Hollywood Hills
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  1. Keeping Up Appearances
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  1. Looking for Alligators near Kennedy Space Center
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  1. The Burrowing Bees
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  1. Hotel Balcony
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  1. Section III
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  1. Time Distance
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  1. Summer Tankas
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  1. The Stream at Jackass Meadow
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  1. I Felt the Tree Go Bare
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  1. Green
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  1. Fifties Music
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  1. Second Honeymoon
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  1. Nimis Compos Mentis
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  1. The Pool
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  1. Lothario
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  1. This Kiss
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  1. The Bachelor
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  1. Section IV
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  1. Odyssey
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  1. The Last Concert
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  1. Mary Cassatt. Two Studies
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  1. The Train Bearer
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  1. Fifteen
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  1. The Outfielder
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  1. Shell
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  1. The Memory of Abortion Unexpectedly Returns
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  1. Film Noir
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  1. Lake Arrowhead
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  1. Northridge, 1952: A Mother Looks for Her Children
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  1. Conundrum
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  1. Section V
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  1. To the Poet Who Thinks I Praise Promiscuously
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  1. The Education of a Poet
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  1. Letter to Philip Larkin
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  1. A Feminine Riposte to X.J. Kennedy
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  1. Thoughts While Reading Robert Frost on New Year’s Day in Idaho
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  1. On Hearing Gwendolyn Brooks
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  1. Emily’s Words
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  1. Sweeping
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  1. The Old Capitalist
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  1. Dividing China
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  1. Parking Lot
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  1. About the Author
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