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Title Author Year
Hunting Civil War Relics at Nimblewill Creek James Dickey 1992
Me in Paradise Brenda Shaughnessy 2008
Couture Mark Doty 1995
Blueprint Tom Sleigh 2007
Joseph Cornell, with Box Michael Dumanis 2007
The First Marriage Peter Meinke 1996
I rose from marsh mud Lorine Niedecker 2002
Ballade [The goat scratches so much it can't sleep] François Villon 1965
Passerby, These are Words Yves Bonnefoy 2006
Called into Play A. R. Ammons 1997
Kore Robert Creeley 1991
Churchgoing Marilyn Nelson 1978
Help Me to Salt, Help Me to Sorrow Judy Jordan 1999
Annunciation Jean Valentine 2004
Pigeons at Dawn Charles Simic 2005
Atlas Sherwin Bitsui 2003
Words and the Diminution of All Things Charles Wright 2004
The Starlings Jesper Svenbro 2003
On the Mississippi Hamlin Garland 1893
Tenantry George Scarbrough 1989

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