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723 records returned.

This is a set of links to stripped-down presentations of all the poems I've got in my central database so far. The links go to individual poems, with the last link in each set displaying the entire contents of the book in a single page. If after the title of a poem there's an attribution (such as "The Damned [from A Volcano Island]"), that usually means that the poem has been published in more than one poetry collection.

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2 Watercolors of 4 Birds

A

Abandoned Farm, The

Abandoned Tower, The

Acrobat at Prayer

Address of Phosphor for the Moon

After the Bacchanal

After the War [from Red Bank]

Aims [from The Sword Inside]

All Hallow's Eve

All my notes so-called crowd to tongue thy praise

All my parts do my pursuit of love betray

All Poetry Is Middle Class

All those who in roaring triumph died...

Although you shrink in all the world's commend

Among Fugitive Hills

Among the Shadows

Among the Stables

An Old Man's Hawk

Ancillary Victim at Reagan's Shooting

And Love, Ever-Freshened

Anna, Eighty-Six

Answering Machine Messages:

Antimonies, The

Aperitif in November

Apollo Belvedere

Apollo Belvedere [from A Volcano Island]

April Mechanical

Aqua Lycra Scubagirl

Archangels Comb Their Muddy Hair with Sticks

Ardor for Order, The

Artist Surprised in His Studio, The

Aside to a Crying Child

Assembling the Earth

At the Theater Doors and Almost In

B

Bacchus at the Pianola

Banquet [from Naked Eloquence]

Bar of Ivory Soap Sitting Near the Faucet, A

Bastard Alabasters: "Sand and Eyesore Verse"

Bastard Alabasters: Heav'n

Bastard Alabasters: In Congress

Bastard Alabasters: In Temperance

Bastard Alabasters: New Newt

Bastard Alabasters: Recant

Bastard Alabasters: Recanticle

Bastard Alabasters: Stillborn

Bastard Alabasters: The Human New

Bastard Alabasters: The Phoenix Fixed

Bastard Alabasters: The Sinister is in Us

Bastard Alabasters: Wrecked Beast

Beached Lightning

BEAUTY IS THE ONLY MORAL COMPASS

Because You Took

Before The Nuptials

Behind 12 Bowie

Bella Belle Isabella

Bella Belle Isabella [from Adoring Thorns]

Bells of St Mary's, The

Birthday Suit, A

Black Hat, White Hat

Black Pony, The

Blank Generation [Complete Text]

Blank Generation [II]

Blank Generation [III]

Blank Generation I

Blank Generation:

Blank Generation: DECONSTRUCTING THE DECONSTRUCTI

Blank Generation: MON HYPOCRITE LECTUR:

Blank Generation: EVEN WHEN I'M DOWN, I HEAR SYMPH

Blank Generation: HOW TO WRITE A VICTORY

Blue Perhaps, A

Boardwalk Bonfire

Body Complete as a Planet

Bride of Sir Patrick Spens, The

Broken Boxcar, The

Bronze Creeper, A

Bronze eyes that stare unmoving at the sun

Burning Anvil, The

Burning Byzantium

Burning the Vail

Butler of the Weather, The

Butterfly Effect, The

By Shadow Known

D

Damned [from A Volcano Island], The

Dark Roots, The

Dead [from Constellations in December]

Death in Woods, A

DEATH OF THE BEATS AND THE AESTHETIC OF THE VILE,

Decline of a Statesman: I. Decline of a Statesman

Decline of a Statesman: II. VIETNAM IN WASHINGTON,

Decline of a Statesman: III. HOUSE PAINTING

Decline of a Statesman: IV. NIGHT MEDITATIONS

Decline of a Statesman: V. NO MOON

Decline of a Statesman: VI. DIALOG

Dejection [short poem]

Difference Is Less, The

Discarded Tower, The

Discussion Among the Solitudes

Display Against Society

Disturb the Eagles' Nest

Don Juan Among the Maidens

Double in the Dark, A

Dr. Reverend in Ohio

Dream Dislodged, A

Drowned Head, The

Drunken Ballerina, The

Drunken Gardener, The

During and After

Dying Violet In The Sidelight, A

E

Eagle has Landed, The

Edvard Shevardnashze

Eisenhower's Son

Election Day, Nov. 7, 1988

Epigram on Self-Neglect

Equally the Sun

Etchings of the Caribbean Cross

Evening Argument

Events Themselves, The

EVE'S ONE PEARL

Existentialist Dilemma

Eye Moderne a la Mode

G

Gardener's Lot, The

Gifts Assembled

Gifts' Attendance, The

Golden Ticket [from Rose Lasso], The

Good and its Opposite

Gown of Sleep, The

Gratuitous Title

Guttural Doggerel at Night

H

Half animal and man

Half animal and man in my shambling frame [from Na

Have I not, laden with my melancholy

He Fears Growing Old

Held on a vase for all time

Her eyes intensified....

Her incandescent body

Hero and The Saint, The

HEROIC CREATION

History [from Divine revolt]

Holly Tree, The

Hollywoody [from Naked Eloquence]

How can strangers love, knowing not your face

How does our exalted time unfold

HOW TO WRITE A VICTORY INSTEAD OF A TRAGEDY

Hue of Evil, The

Human Immortal, The

Humbert Humbert's Defense Attorney Caps his Disqui

Hunting [from Adoring Thorns]

Hydra of Days, The

Hymn [from A Volcano Island]

Hysterical Girl, The

I

I have an absence

I sit in veils of vague glory

I want to be pushed down the slide

I write this to all the harried angels of the eart

I, I am part of it. I am carrying on the

I'd divine the source your rich mystery was made i

II The Winter Princess

III Ariel in Excelsus

I'll resign the moon

Illness is a Calumny

I'm Seein' Life in Debravision

I'm seein' life in Debravision

Immortal Words, The

In All This Abiding Blue

In Holy Illume [from A Volcano Island]

In Living Rooms

In Our Mutual, Mortal

In The Cold Dawn

In Washington, our spiked hub of government,

Ingenious Souvenirs

Interrupted Night

Introrse Proportions

Invoking [from A Volcano Island], The

It Comes, It Comes,

It had seemed a million others had loved best, or

J

Jes' Tryin' ta Tell a Vision

Jes' Tryin' Ta Tell A Vision [from Adoring Thorns]

Jonathan Miller, U.S.M.

K

Kennedy's Inauguration Night, Nixon

King Faad (of Saudi Arabia)

King Washington

Kiss this Bliss

M

MacArthur on the Yalu River

MacArthur Reads to his Boy

Magnolias in New Jersey

Man is Statue to the Act Unfolding, The

Mandala Squalor

Mannikin Grown Large Again, The

Manor-House, The

Mareotic Lake, The

Marilyn Monroe (Death Speech)

Master And Slave

Mated Pheasants

Matter Of State

Memo for the Millennium

Mendel's Garden

Me-ness of Me, The

Mental Garden, The

Message Towards Morning

Misbelieve Me If You Dare, O Sonneteer

Mister S [from Naked Eloquence]

Mockumentary of the Sun, A

Moment By Moment

Mortality Enclosed [from A Volcano Island], A

Mortality Enclosed, A

Mosquito's Wing Along the Rail, A

Mr. Moon is my solo glow;

Mud Slide in Vernal Weather

My Beloved Enemy

My Heart, My Debra, My New Dwelling

My love's more constant than the watery moon

My neon heart's kneeling in defeat

My Pardons, My Praises

My silent love is ripped by warring thoughts

My Soul, Like a Wicked Father

N

Nailed Longings

Naked Eloquence

Naked Eloquence [from Naked Eloquence]

Narcotic Nirvana

Native Muse of This Rock, The

New Year [from Adoring Thorns]

Newborn. Again.

Night Absences, The

Night Lures (I Am Sleeping)

Night Orchard, The

Night Storm [from A Volcano Island]

Night Winds, The

Nixon During WaterGate

Nixon Now [from XXX Sonnets]

Nixon, Election Eve 1960

No Longer Young

No Plato's Republic

Not Until the September is Past

Nothing is in a little space confined

Noticing the Noticer

P

Panic with her hair outspread

Paper Mill, The

Parent Tree, The

Paupers In The Blood

Pavilion Fountain: After the Funeral (Nov. 25, 196

Penitent Skies [from A Volcano Island]

Perception at the Center

Philippic Against Darwin

Phosphorus Stars, The

Piccolo: Notes of a Suicide

Pissing in the Snow

Poem and Essay Order of the previous edition of Gh

Poverty of Motherhood, The

Prayer. Again. [from Adoring Thorns]

Praying Out Loud

Prolog of a Dog

Prometheus Bound

PUNK ROCK, ETERNAL YOUTH, AND THE BACCHANALIA OF L

Q

Queens of This and the Kings of That, The

Questioner of the Weather, A

Questions Concerning History

S

Saddam Huissain

Saint is in the eye, A

Saint is in the eye, A

Schwartzkopf, Duke of Iraq

Schwartzkopf, Duke of Iraq [from XXX Sonnets]

Scold [from Naked Eloquence]

Scolding Moon, The

Seasonal Dead, The

Secret Rose, The

Seeing It Is Evening I Watch the Mill Men Being Le

Sestina: A Whittler's Self-Portrait

Sewn together in a pouch of purrs

Shakespeare Writes It

Shakespeare Writes It [from Adoring Thorns]

Shouts of Blankness

Sid Contemplates Nancy's Death in a Limousine

Silence [from Constellations in December], The

Silent Woman, The

Simple as Sticks

Slate Steps Descend the Hill

Slaves of Glory

Sleeping in the tender light of alone

Small faces gather at the great, Romantic heart

So far from rancor, my ill-abused heart

So I Might Suffer

So Where Are All the Mad Albanians

Socketless and Sailor

Soft Assault, The

Solar Perplexus

Solar Resignation

Solitary Body on the Pallet, The

Solomon in Confusion

Some notes for an Invocation Delivered at the Conv

Song of the Self-Sufficient Beggar

Sonnet: for P. B. Shelley, Bay of Lerici

Spectrum is Discerning, The

Spring Has Come

Staring at My Face in a Hushed Brook

Stars in the Cell

Stone in Water, The

Summer Prayer, A

Sweet delight that perishes on the hour!

Sword Inside, The

T

Temporal Exhalation, A

Tensegrity's overrated

Theif of Glory [from Divine Revolt]

These Atlantic Letters: 2. In Milan

These Atlantic Letters: 3. From N.J.

These Atlantic Letters: 4. The Postcard

These Atlantic Letters: 5. In Florence

These Atlantic Letters: 6. Near the Hudson

These Atlantic Letters: 1. From Brussels

These Cathedrals

Thing Itself, The

This Island Man

Thorn Tree, The

Those Images [from Red Bank]

Three Magi, The

Three Songs: The Glass Mountain

Three Songs: The Salt Heart

Three Songs: Third Song

Thrush at the Sill, The

Time has set his eating stamp on your kind face,

Timid Leaper, The

Timid Stars, The

To a Summer Hailstorm

To Her Asleep [from A Volcano Island]

To Tenderest Purity

Transmutations of the Solid State

Triumphant Victims

Trotsky in Mexico

Two-Edged Liberty

U

Unimagined Things

V

Valhalla, Vonnegut, Etc.

Variations on a Viol

Villanelle: Beware Chimeras

Vindictive Advice

Voice that puts my world to worse, The

Volcano Island, A

W

Walk in the Hush

Walking McWhorter

Wandering Glory

Wasteful sun wakes blinking in morning's weeds, Th

Watching Trees After Rain

Water remembered has drowned the words we kept

Water-Mirror, The

Weeping Womb, The

Wet Weather Promise

What Joy Departs?

What Price Freedom?

What the Mountain Saw

When I truly dream on Paradise....

When Into the Mouth the Death Cry Comes

When love's ripest hour holds discourse with thy f

When love's swelling wound is by conscience pricke

When that the Trem-bling Pen

When we lie with the hot worst of our beings spent

When you are gone my heart is buried

When, all insecure, before howling mountains

Who can mourn what time has stripped bare

Why I Like Wet [from Adoring Thorns]

Why John Ashbury Sucks

Why of a Fencepost, The

Wild Azalea Blooming

William Casey [from XXX Sonnets]

William F. Buckley, Jr.

Willow Bond, The

Wind That Lashes Everything at Once, The

Wind Trees Keep, The

Wintering by the Atlantic

Wintering by the Atlantic [Sonnet Version]

Without Benefit Of Virgil

Wolfgang Puck, Cook

Wood to Sing Through, A

Words Are Worlds

World's Worst Sonnet

Wounded Woodsman, The

Writing at the Park

X

Xavier Descends His Soap_Box

Y

Yellow Rose, The

You do complain upon our time, and that

You had grown quiet in a snowy field

You into every raging ache of nature