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

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
• The Future in a Changing World
• Note to D. on Namdeo Dhasal
• Indian Spirituality and the Mythic Gandhi

Home

• Note on War and Italian Director Antonioni
• Snap Your Fingers to the Beat (essay excerpt)
• Nightmare Free (poem)
• Invisible Madness (essay excerpt)

Poetry Manuscripts

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

Publications

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