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FROM

PERIPLUM, AND OTHER POEMS

SONG OF THE INTERIOR BEGIN / 3

PERIPLUM / 4

BLUE PETER / 6

STILL LIFE WITH AUTOMOBILE / 9

THIRTY SENTENCES FOR NO ONE / 10

POEM FOR JOHN WIENERS / 12

DESPITE YOUR NOTICES / 14

PSALM / 16

DEUS EX MACHINA / 17

SONG OF THE DEN / 21

PERIPLUM VII (A VALENTINE) / 23

HARD AS ASH / 24

FROM

ARTIFICIAL HEART

NEW PICNIC TIME / 37

TOY / 40

ANOTHER DAY ON THE PILGRIMAGE / 42

SPECK / 47

WILL CALL / 48

LEDGER DOMAIN / 49

LONELY TYLENOL / 55

REED / 56

CAPTION / 58

PIERCED / 60

FABLES OF CRITIQUE / 70

A TEXTBOOK OF CHIVALRY / 72

FROM

SOME VALUES OF LANDSCAPE AND WEATHER

OBJECTS IN MIRROR ARE CLOSER THAN THEY APPEAR / 77

THE ETHICS OF DUST / 80

A HISTORY OF THE LYRIC / 82

ADD THIS TO THE HOUSE / 84

SOME VALUES OF LANDSCAPE AND WEATHER / 85

OVERTAKELESSNESS / 90

HAWTHORNE / 91

EDGAR POE / 92

REVIVAL / 93

TO BE WRITTEN IN NO OTHER COUNTRY / 99

IN DEFENSE OF NOTHING / 100

LESSONS IN DARKNESS / 101

IT WAS RAINING IN DELFT / 104

FIN AMOR / 105

BEGINNING WITH A PHRASE FROM SIMONE WEIL / 117

FROM

THE OUTER NATIONALE

A PANIC THAT CAN STILL COME UPON ME / 121

THE QUEST / 130

STUNG / 131

UNTITLED AMHERST SPECTER / 135

A TELESCOPE PROTECTS ITS VIEW / 136

THAT’S LIFE / 138

NOCTURNE / 141

VINCENT, HOMESICK FOR THE LAND OF PICTURES / 143

WINTRY MIX / 150

SATURDAY AND ITS FESTOONED POTENTIAL / 152

THE MOONLIGHT DEFENSE / 154

BOLSHEVESCENT / 155

THE OUTERNATIONALE / 156

FROM

THRESHOLD SONGS

THE GROWING EDGE / 169

LULLABY / 173

HYPOSTASIS & NEW YEAR / 175

EYE OF THE POEM / 178

SNOW GLOBE / 180

ANALEMMA / 181

THIS TRIP AROUND THE SUN IS EXPENSIVE / 184

BASEMENT SONG / 186

PINOCCHIO’S GNOSIS / 188

TINY BLAST / 194

TRADITION & THE INDIVISIBLE TALENT / 195

APOCRYPHA / 199

A NOTE ON THE TEXT / 202

OVERSONG / 204

HISTORY IS MADE AT NIGHT / 206

BARDO / 214

MODERN ADVENTURES AT SEA / 216

FRAGMENT (TO THE READER) / 221