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Title Author Year
Tender Buttons [A Light in the Moon] Gertrude Stein 1914
To S. M., a Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works Phillis Wheatley 1773
The Origin Jane Mead 2008
Envoi William Meredith 1997
What [The flower sermon] Ron Silliman 1988
Water Music Robert Creeley 1983
My Great Great Etc. Uncle Patrick Henry James Tate 1972
At Melville’s Tomb Hart Crane 1933
Pickle Belt Theodore Roethke 1932
Wildflower Stanley Plumly 1983
California Plush Frank Bidart 1973
Help Me to Salt, Help Me to Sorrow Judy Jordan 1999
One of the Lives W. S. Merwin 1996
Atlas Sherwin Bitsui 2003
Around Us Marvin Bell 2004
Words and the Diminution of All Things Charles Wright 2004
The Starlings Jesper Svenbro 2003
An Evening Thought: Salvation by Christ, with Penitential Cries Jupiter Hammon 1760
Minerva Jones Edgar Lee Masters 1916
Lot's Wife Dana Littlepage Smith 2001

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