Near/Miss
- Contents
- Review Quotes
- Awards

In Utopia
High Tide at Race Point
Don’t Tell Me about the Tide . . .
Grief Haunts the Spoken
Nowhere Is Just around the Corner
S’i’ fosse
Corrections
Intaglio
The Bluebird of Happiness
Catachresis My Love
Spring
Otherwise He’d Be Dead
This Poem Is a Hostage
The Lie of Art
Why I Am Not a Hippie
Apoplexy / Apoplexie
Truly Unexceptional
Passing
All Poetry Is Loco
I Used to Be a Plastic Bottle
Why I Am Not an Atheist
The Island of Lost Song
Confederate Battle Flag
Sacred Hate
Me and My Pharaoh . . .
Catullus 70
Where My Bread Is Buttered
He Said He Was a Professor
Klang
Autobiography of an Ex-
Why I Am Not a Buddhist
Ballad Laid Bare by Its Devices (Even)
Animation
Also Rises the Sun
Georgics
Concentration (An Elegy)
How I Became Prehuman
Pinky’s Rule
My Mommy Is Lost
Better Off Dead
Oopera
Procedure
Water Under the Bridge . . .
Recap
Unconstrained Writing
Ugly Duckling
Transvaluation
Beyond Compare
The Pond Off Pamet Road
The Nun’s Story
Our United Fates
To Gonzalo Rojas
I Don’t Remember
Flag
Contact Western Union Very Urgent
Her Ecstasy Is Abstract
At Sunset, after the Plum Blossoms Begin to Fall . . .
Each Separate Dying Ember
Betcha
Don’t Say I Passed When I Die
Ring Song
God’s Silence
Drambuie
Doggone Sane
Fado
Wild Turning
This Poem Is a Decoy
My Luck
Mystic Brokerage
Effigy
Seldom Splendor
Song of the Wandering Poet
In the Meantime
Before Time
Song
What Makes a Poem a Poem?
There’s a Hole in My Pocket
Song Dynasty
Elfking
Lacrimae Rerum
Fare Thee Well
Notes and Acknowledgments
Yale University: The Bollingen Prize for Poetry
Won
Literature and Literary Criticism: American and Canadian Literature
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