Selected Poems
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Dark and Light Fantastic
These extracts were published in the Belgian literary magazine Écritures no. 13 (2001).
Cold
Survivors
Clap Hands Beat Time
A Homage to Henry
Written in 1992, on the twentieth anniversary of the John Berryman's death.
Mona Lisa and Demons at Penn Station, New York
Afflicted and Unafflicted on Fifth Avenue, New York
Abraham Lincoln and the Suicide March of Lemmings
From Sonnet to Syllable
From Syllable to Sonnet
The True Survivors
Night Train from Chicago
Another Kind of Optimism (1974)
Twice upon a time
Kavanagh a la Carte
No One to Wave At
Lines in Memory of My Father
Carters
The Book
A Hard Night's Daze
Last of the Magi, Maybe
Sunlight on a Square