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Title Author Year
Ballade [The goat scratches so much it can't sleep] François Villon 1965
Ramallah Bei Dao 2006
Insect Assassins Jackson Mac Low 1972
The Great Black Heron Denise Levertov 1996
Purgatory Maxine Kumin 1965
In California During the Gulf War Denise Levertov 1992
Help Me to Salt, Help Me to Sorrow Judy Jordan 1999
Hands Siv Cedering 1973
Ikon: The Harrowing of Hell Denise Levertov 1989
St. Peter and the Angel Denise Levertov 1984
Yes Denise Duhamel 1999
Called into Play A. R. Ammons 1997
My Great Great Etc. Uncle Patrick Henry James Tate 1972
Spenser’s Ireland Marianne Moore 1961
Etymological Dirge Heather McHugh 1999
Kore Robert Creeley 1991
Sexism David Lehman 1996
Painters Muriel Rukeyser 2005
Snowman Gu Cheng 2005
Pigeons at Dawn Charles Simic 2005

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