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Index to the contents
2009,
2001,
2000,
1999,
1997,
1993,
1989,
1988,
1987,
Ring Poems,
1986,
1985,
Movements,
1984,
1983,
1982,
1981,
Novels,
1980,
Absences and Presences: Part 2 of Spectacles,
Images: Part 3 of Spectacles,
Narratives: Part 4 of Spectacles,
The The’s: Part 5 of Spectacles,
Fresno: Part 6 of Spectacles,
Poet: Part 7 of Spectacles,
Analytics: Part 8 of Spectacles,
Dedications and collaborations,
1979,
1978,
Alaska Poems,
1977,
1976,
1975,
1974,
1973,
1972,
1971,
1970,
1969,
Undated,
Publications,
Photo credits
Legend
Contents
2009
2001
2000
1999
1997
1993
1989
1988
1987
Ring Poems, for Gretchen
1986
1985
Movements
1984
1983
1982
1981
Novels, for Gil Helmick
1980
Absences and Presences: Part 2 of Spectacles
Images: Part 3 of Spectacles
Narratives: Part 4 of Spectacles
The The’s: Part 5 of Spectacles
Fresno: Part 6 of Spectacles
Poet: Part 7 of Spectacles
Analytics: Part 8 of Spectacles
1979
1978
Alaska Poems, written in the margins of Harold Salisbury’s Poems of Alaska
1977
1976
1975
- At the Impersonal Hilton 27 December 1975
- Reconciled 27 December 1975
- Withdrawn 26 December 1975
- Sitting on a Rock on a Beach 25 December 1975
- Verb Poem 23 December 1975
- Poem for all the Beautiful Dead Potatoes 5 December 1975, 11 February 1976
- In the Woods, a love poem 26 November 1975
- Reluctance 24 November 1975
- A Place 22 November 1975
- Departure: a letter 18 November 1975
- Reflection 16 November 1975
- Like a Love Poem 5, 15 November 1975
- Dear Larry and Cecelia 13 November 1975
- Missing You: a pathetic fallacy 10 November 1975
- Intermediate 8, 17 November 1975
- Up in the Air 1 November, 29 September 1975
- Three, but two would do 8 October 1975
- The El Veranno Inn 4 October 1975
- Four Poems for Four Things in a Coffee Shop 27 September 1975
- The Same Day 21 September 1975
- Not Deliverable as Addressed 16-22 September 1975
- Ascetic 31 August 1975
- Doll 30 August 1975
- “You wouldn’t call me honey would you?” 11 August 1975
- Here 10 August 1975
- Thanks 8 August 1975
- Stanyon on the Carl of Corner and Standing 5 August 1975
- The Steps of 234 Carl Street 5 August 1975
- I Know Better 1 August 1975
- What You’re Missing 28 July 1975
- Sentence 23 July 1975
- Something to Think About 23 July 1975
- A Love Poem by the Board 23 July 1975
- Two Good Words 23 July 1975
- Be It Love 22 July 1975
- To the Heart 20 July 1975
- Crazy About You 15 July 1975
- To an Old Love 12 July 1975
- There’s Nothing Like It 10 July 1975
- Coffee Cup Ode 9 July 1975
- Make It New 9 July 1975
- What About 9 July 1975
- Dreams Can Come True 8 July 1975
- Dreams Can Come True 8 July 1975
- The Same Old Story 8 July 1975
- The Soul Can Reach 5 July 1975
- In the Dream 2 July 1975
- Sonnet of a Sort 2 July 1975
- Unfinished Business 1 July 1975
- Problem 29 June 1975
- Love and Hate 27 June 1975
- Across the Table 27 June 1975
- Without Saying 27 June 1975
- Tom Thinks Under a Full Moon 26 June 1975
- Too Bad 26 June 1975
- At Your Door 26 June 1975
- An Intimate Act 26 June 1975
- To Repeat the Past 24 June 1975
- Maybe You Don’t Love Me 20 June 1975, 20 May 2017
- Note 16 June 1975
- “Look, Ma” 13 June 1975
- Already 12 June 1975
- I wish I could see the blue moon. 12 June 1975
- “I on the hill with the night” 8 June 1975
- “The stars were in the valley” 7 June 1975
- “The shadow on the gravel” 7 June 1975
- A Domestic Haiku 7 June 1975
- Moth has a dialog with Snake 5 June 1975
- If You Kiss a Snake 5 June 1975
- Moths 5 June 1975
- Anymore 1 June 1975
- What 31 May 1975
- All that 29 May 1975
- Jesus loves you 27 April 1975
- Instead 19 April 1975
- Carnations 18 April 1975
- Iris 8 April 1975
- Thinking in the Coffee Shop 30 March 1975
- Forgiving 6 March 1975
- Virtue 5 March 1975
- When These Things Assume 25 February 1975
- “A dusty pale glazed” 23 February 1975
- “Home, the women” 23 February 1975
- Syntaxing 21, 24 February 1975
- Cheap Words 19 February 1975
- There’s Still Time 15 February 1975
- The Storm 31 January 1975
- “Since it doesn’t make any sense” 26 January 1975
- in the first place 19 January 1975
- For 16 January 1975
- While 10 January 1975
- Interviews 1 January 1975
1974
- Found Haiku 28 December 1974
- Clothes to You 22 December 1974
- “No pretending anymore” 19 December 1974
- Pat at the Pit 11 December 1974
- O to be now hand in hand in hand in hand 7 December 1974
- “you ask too much” 2 December 1974
- Maybe with a Scottish Accent, No, Guyana. 29 November 1974
- Down the middle of Husserl, Cartesian Meditations 20 November 1974
- Punctuation in Context 20 November 1974
- First & Last Words of Husserl’s Sentences 20 November 1974
- Corners from Husserl 20 November 1974
- Margins from Husserl 20 November 1974
- In the Literature Class 18 November 1974
- Array 19 November 1974
- Phenomenology 18 November 1974
- Cooperate 17 November 1974
- Reading at Primrose Cafe 15 November 1974
- “you, I” 12 November 1974
- whoever you is 10 November 1974
- The Flu 16 October 1974
- Dear David & Sherril 10 October 1974
- Parting from the Party 9 October 1974
- all most 29 September 1974
- “the fog the gray” 24 September 1974
- After 14 September 1974
- In Response Too: an answer 12 September 1974
- Standing Outside 9 September 1974
- where is she 9 September 1974
- why not 2 September 1974
- “I ride my bike into the country” 2 September 1974
- song: “the rice is old” 2 September 1974
- After One 31 August 1974
- Couples 30 August 1974
- “the muzack at Denny’s” 30 August 1974
- Dark Now 25 August 1974
- having having being being 19 August 1974
- course 13 August 1974
- Over the Sonoma Mountains 6 August 1974
- decadent breakfast 5 August 1974
- Vision 3 August 1974
- Haiku lesson 22 July 1974
- Down the Hall 16 July 1974
- In the Student Union 11 July 1974
- Independence 4 July 1974
- Truth 3 July 1974
- Sweet Repose 2 July 1974
- Home 27 June 1974
- Apple Pie 21 June 1974
- West Grand Avenue, Oakland 21 June 1974
- In the Cold 19 June 1974
- Since 19 June 1974
- Another Fish in the Sea 19 June 1974
- Tale 15 June 1974
- Over Coffee 15 June 1974
- Smoke 14 June 1974
- Stopped by the Side of the Road 11 June 1974
- We Are the Society of Drunks 8 June 1974
- standoff 5 June 1974
- so much fun 4 June 1974
- going down 4 June 1974
- hard to get 2 June 1974
- what 1 June 1974
- the band 29 May, 9 June 1974
- if you 15 May 1974
- Saying What I Wanted to Say 8 May 1974
- Dear Stephen 6 May 1974
- A Reading 5 May 1974
- To Day 5 May 1974
- In the Grass 3 May 1974
- ogle April 1974
- First 14 April 1974
- Painless 13 April 1974
- Anyway 20 March 1974
- Oh Yeh 19 March 1974
- Party 18 March 1974
- Oh 17 March 1974
- The Advocate 15 March 1974
- “go Go? Go, go; go. Go! Go . . .” 13 March 1974
- On the Couch 9 March 1974
- Traces 9 March 1974
- “Put it in the middle” 7 March 1974
- Dreamless 7 March 1974
- A Life Sentence 7 March 1974
- “no, take it back” 6 March 1974
- “the narrative voice & the narrative” 6 March 1974
- The Farmyard 6 March 1974
- (Because the way is dark and there are roads) 13 February 1974
- “The thought is” 14 February 1974
- Girl 21 February 1974
- Shits, a burlesque 21 February 1974
- “Get to the bottom” 20 February 1974
- “yeh you do, and me too” 30 January 1974
- I’m Reading Shakespeare 29 January 1974
- it was calling me 28 January 1974
- The Brown Room 21 January 1974
- Go on 20 January 1974
- Watch Out for the End this Man may Take 21 January 1974
- Left for you 17 January 1974
- getting the final word 16 January 1974
- list 16 January 1974
- Kinder 1 January 1974
1973
1972
1971
1970
1969
Undated
Dedications and collaborations
Publications
Credits for the photos on the cover page
- 1953, one year old
- 1958, kindergarten
- 1960, second grade
- 1961, third grade
- 1970, high school graduation
- 1973, photo by Bailie Kay
- 1975, college graduation, with father, mother, and neice
- 1978, photo by Bailie Kay
- Winter 1979, photo by Cecelia Flynn
- 1980, photo by Katherine Kahrs
- January 1991, in my office at IBM Silicon Valley Lab
- 2010, photo by Liz Douthitt Sharp