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This book by a major American poet is for poetry readers at all levels, academic and non-academic. It is a sequence of poems that will surprise and delight readers—in the voices of an old woman full of memories, a glamorous tulip, and an earthy dog who always has the last word.

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  1. Front Cover
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  1. Title Page, Copyright, Quote
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  1. Contents
  2. pp. vii-viii
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  1. 1
  2. pp. 1-2
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  1. The Blessing of the Old Woman, the Tulip, and the Dog
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  1. The Vow
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  1. Deer Walk Upon Our Mountains
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  1. Wrong About the Horse
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  1. The Drink Triptych
  2. p. 7
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  1. The Panel Discussion: How Mistaken Is Sophocles
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  1. The Promise Triptych
  2. pp. 9-10
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  1. 2
  2. pp. 11-12
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  1. Song
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  1. The Beautiful Morning Triptych
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  1. The Wind That Blows Through Me
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  1. What We Love
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  1. Prayer
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  1. April
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  1. Soften and Melt
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  1. 3
  2. pp. 21-22
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  1. In Every Life
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  1. Try To
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  1. The Fear Triptych
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  1. Ridiculous
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  1. The Outsiders
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  1. Anger I: Gray Cement
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  1. The Moment on Stage I
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  1. 4
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  1. Church
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  1. The Synagogue of the Ear of Corn
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  1. They Speak of Race
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  1. Awakening
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  1. I Want to Live
  2. pp. 38-39
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  1. What Is Now Seen Was Once Only Imagined
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  1. Bright Star and Devil Moon
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  1. 5
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  1. Snow Day
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  1. The Sorrow Triptych
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  1. The Arts
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  1. The Moment on Stage II
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  1. Anger II: the Rape
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  1. Liberty
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  1. To a Pregnant Woman
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  1. 6
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  1. The Beginning of Time
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  1. Sweet Chariot
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  1. Brightness Falls from the Air
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  1. In War Time
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  1. Paw on Your Lap
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  1. Many Lives
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  1. Summertime
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  1. Endmatter
  2. pp. 65-66
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  1. Notes
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  1. Acknowledgments
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  1. Back Cover
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