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• Blood Parents
• The Evolving Music
• A Creature of the Times
• Beyond Maruti's House
• Thirteen Scraps

Cultural/Political Analysis

• Note on the Prose Manuscripts
• Dark is the Night
• Intellectuals and Meaning
• Global Warming and Systems of Objectification
• Lucidity and Disbelief
• Eating Black Mucous
• Note to D. on Namdeo Dhasal
• The Future in a Changing World
• Indian Spirituality and the Mythic Gandhi

Home

• Note on War and Italian Director Antonioni
• Nightmare Free
• Snap Your Fingers to the Beat
• Invisible Madness

Poetry Manuscripts

• Legacy
• Volsky, Age 64, Long Beach, NY
• Beyond the Sentimental
• Again
• Homage
• Dusk to Night
• It's Where
• Like This
• Remembering Dimitri on his Deathbed
• Parent
• Anniversary Death Prayer Coda
• Note to Emma
• Fire Sutra
• Note to O'Carroll
• Details
• North of the Pagoda
• But Happily
• Sixty-Three Years After the Wire Factory Strike
• Evangelista Morphine, Pentecost
• Mekong Monsoon
• Dev Raj
• Pieces after Listening to Tracy Sing
• El Fanguito
• A Parent’s Retrieval of Meaning
• Between Yesterday and Tomorrow
• Foretelling It
• Notation
• Five Klicks Northwest of Hindalga Post Office
• Meat Hunks Yanked from Alvarez's Flesh
• Going Down Low Enough to Need the Moon
• Arbitrary Gateway to What Was Left . . .
• New War
• from New Beginnings (second excerpt)
• City of Transformative Silence
• In the Moment of the Plastic Tulip's Lecterns
• Mountain Madness
• Shadow Figures
• Power Rising from the Bottom
• For César Vallejo
• The Inside Scoop
• Gettysburg
• Death Sentence and After
• In the Dark Thinking
• This, the Naked Poem
• from New Beginnings
• The Other Drummers
• The Legend
• Journey notes written while crossing here to there
• Written in notebook at 21st St. and Baynard Blvd. after 1 a.m.
• Spring behavior
• Fragile simplicity
• Dear Helen
• Hymn to beauty
• Self-portrait of the shadow under the fire escape
• Yugga
• They’re not here. Only I am . . . and you
• I have to
• For you, whoever you are
• J. L.
• Wasted
• Each river has its own specificity
• Why (it just won’t fucking stop)
• For Nikos
• New Café Bar
• Only in the midst of the mundane does sanctity exist
• Secret ambition
• Grand Rock Moon
• February
• Every Year You Grow Stronger
• Year's End: Four Poems
• Perfect Believer
• On 4th St.
• Epilogue For Erin
• Early March
• Monday
• Ice
• The Art of Learning
• Holy Sunfire Road Goodbye
• Trail to Mouse Tank
• The Death of Illusion
• Submitting to the Power of the Voice That Felled Me
• Here
• La Madre del Río Muerto
• Arizona
• Mountains
• Hideaway
• A Note on the Manuscripts
• Qur'anic Meditations
• Uncle and Friend
• "Ana al-Haqq" ("I am God") the Sacrilegious Sufi Sang in 922 AD
• Gautama Near Jivaka's House 600 B.C.
• The Chaos of Simplicity
• Destination
• Liberation
• I Haven't Seen Billy and Nina for Years
• Beyond
• Afterwards
• Dancing While Dressed in a Cape of Afterbirth
• Sometimes I Go There
• A Lover's Meditation on the Florida Keys
• Metropolis Notes
• In Your Heart
• Proliferation
• Hearing, east of the fort lake ...
• Poem written in a private corner in somebody else’s house
• Guerrilla camp
• What the bird tattoo guards ... to A. R.
• Belgaum, where the Rattas once ruled
• Evenings
• "That art thou"
• After the battle ... for Savita
• Endless
• Sundera’s dry season
• A phenomenology of the simple
• Daily
• Hours later
• Road to Nilima's house
• Aesthetics
• Fire zone, Kashmiri-Pakistani border
• Foretold Cradles for Rosa’s Uncle Jimmy, and for Marcos
• Prophet Totem
• Eulogist
• Evening
• What Can I Say and Why Should I Say It Even If I Can?
• After Falling Asleep in the Chair
• Saying Goodnight to God from Gander Hill Prison
• Near the Downspout
• Private Emotion
• Staccato Morning
• Cochin Forgotten and Other Things as Well
• From Kosovo To Macedonia
• House of Ice Cream Ations
• You Will Make Me Weep Soon
• A Hint of the Lyrical

Publications

• Eating Late at Night
• Graffiti Painted on the Wall of an Enemy Institution
• Yonkers. In August
• The Awed Ego
• Night Skills
• Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
• Lon Nol the Night before His Departure
• Apology
• After Being Arrested for Trespassing
• Waking in the Middle of the Night
• When Necessary
• Variations: Two Ancient Chinese Poems
• Two A.M., Outside
• Letter to Father Ernesto Cardenal
• Anonymously
• Sleeping
• Late January Cold Wave
• Following the Central Plan
• Note After Midnight
• Dear Anna
• Leaving
• The Krishna Poems
• All Roads Lead to Fallujah
• The Locust's Vocabularies
• Elijah's Mindset after Rudy Slurs a Customer
• Excursion
• Meeting
• Interview with R. Bohm / Abalone Moon
• With You
• Winter Note to Adriana
• To Federico from One of the Disappeared
• Spirit Force
• Hotel La Caravelle, Martinique
• Beyond the Sentimental to the Real
• Night in El Salvador
• One of the Many Ways It Goes Down
• Reception
• Henka
• The Precipice Poems / A Sequence
• Untitled
• Now
• Presence
• History and Language: Two Considerations
• Fort Gordon, Georgia, 1967
• Busted Cherry
• Unignorable Measure
• For C.C. and Mr. Shaman
• Beyond Exegesis
• Osip
• Already
• From Indochina to Iraq and the Destruction of Meaning
• II-3 (What If?)
• IV-3 (Ego)
• II-1 (Signals)
• IV-2 (Memorial Written in Dharwad, April 12, 1974)
• I-2 (Home)
• III-3 (Is)
• III-1 (The Wordless)
• Gandhi
• Notes on Colonial Attitudes
• Settling Down
• Note on Selections
• Thoughts in the Wake of a Suicide