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From the Book - First Mariner books edition.
How it was: Maxine Kumin on Anne Sexton
To bedlam and part way back(1960): You, Doctor Martin
Kind sir: these woods
Torn down from glory daily
Music swims back to me
Bells
Elizabeth gone
Some foreign letters
Kite
Said the poet to the analyst
Venus and the ark
Her kind
Exorcists
Where I live in this honorable house of the laurel tree
Portrait of an old woman on the college tavern wall
Farmer's wife
Funnel
Expatriates
For Johnny Pole on the forgotten beach
Unknown girl in the maternity ward
What's that
Moss of his skin
Hutch
Noon walk on the asylum lawn
Ringing the bells
Lullaby
Lost ingredient
Road back
Waiting head
Elegy in the classroom
Story for Rose on the midnight flight to Boston
For John, who begs me not to enquire further
Double image
Division of parts
All my pretty ones(1962): Truth the dead know
All my pretty ones
Young
Lament
To a friend whose work has come to triumph
Starry night
Old dwarf heart
I remember
Operation
Curse against elegies
Abortion
With mercy for the greedy
For God while sleeping
In the deep museum
Ghosts
Fortress
Old
Hangman
Woman with girdle
House
Water
Wallflower
Housewife
Doors, doors, doors
Letter written on a ferry while crossing Long Island Sound
From the garden
Love song for K. Owyne
Flight
For Eleanor Boylan talking with God
Black art
Letter written during a January northeaster
Live or die(1966): author's note
And one for my dame
Sun
Flee on your donkey
Three green windows
Somewhere in Africa
Imitations of drowning
Mother and Jack and the rain
Consorting with angels
Legend of the one-eyed man
Love song
Man and wife
Those times
Two sons
To lose the earth
Sylvia's death
Protestant Easter
For the year of the insane
Crossing the Atlantic
Walking in Paris
Menstruation at forty
Christmas Eve
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Wanting to die
Wedding night
Little girl, my string bean, my lovely woman
Little uncomplicated hymn
Your face on the dog's neck
Self in 1958
Suicide note
In the beach house
Cripples and other stories
Pain for a daughter
Addict
Live
Love poems(1969): Touch
Kiss
Breast
Interrogation of the man of many hearts
That day
In celebration of my uterus
Nude swim
Song for a red nightgown
loving the killer
For my lover, returning to his wife
Break
It is a spring afternoon
Just once
Again and again and again
You all know the story of the other woman
Moon song, woman song
Ballad of the lonely masturbator
Barefoot
Papa and mama dance
Now
Us
Mr. Mine
Song for a lady
Knee song
Eighteen days without you
Transformations(1971): Gold key
Snow White and the seven dwarfs
White snake
Rumpelstiltskin
Little peasant
Godfather death
Rapunzel
Iron Hans
Cinderella
One-eye, two-eyes, three-eyes
Wonderful musician
Red Riding Hood
Maiden without hands
Twelve dancing princesses
Frog prince
Hansel and Gretel
Briar Rose(Sleeping Beauty)
Book of folly(1972): Thirty poems: Ambition bird
Doctor of the heart
Oh
Sweeney
Mother and daughter
Wifebeater
Firebombers
One-legged man
Assassin
Going gone
Anna who was mad
Hex
Dreaming the breasts
Red shoes
Other Silence
Hoarder
Killing the spring
Death of the father: Oysters
How we danced
boat
Santa
Friends
Begat
Angels of the love affair: Angel of fire and genitals
Angel of clean sheets
Angel of flight and sleigh bells
Angel of hope and calendars
Angel of blizzards and blackouts
Angel of beach houses and picnics
Jesus papers: Jesus suckles
Jesus awake
Jesus asleep
Jesus raises up the harlot
Jesus cooks
Jesus summons forth
Jesus dies
Jesus unborn
Author of the Jesus papers speaks
Death notebooks(1974): Gods
Making a living
For Mr. Death who stands with his door open
Faustus and I
Death baby: Dreams
Dy-dee doll
Seven times
Madonna
Max
Baby
Rats live on no evil star
Grandfather, your wound
Baby picture
Furies: Fury of beautiful bones
Fury of hating eyes
Fury of guitars and sopranos
Fury of earth
Fury of jewels and coal
Fury of cooks
Fury of cocks
Fury of abandonment
Fury of overshoes
Fury of rain storms
Fury of flowers and worms
Fury of God's good-bye
Fury of Sundays
Fury of sunsets
Fury of sunrises
Praying on a 707
Clothes
Mary's song
God's backside
Jesus walking
Hurry up please it's time
O ye tongues: First psalm
Second psalm
Third psalm
Fourth psalm
Fifth psalm
Sixth psalm
Seventh psalm
Eighth psalm
Ninth psalm
Tenth psalm
Awful rowing toward God(1975): Rowing
Civil war
Children
Two hands
Room of my life
Witch's life
Earth falls down
Courage
Riding the elevator into the sky
When man enters woman
Fish that walked
Fallen angels
Earth
After Auschwitz
Poet of ignorance
Sermon of the twelve acknowledgments
Evil eye
Dead heart
Play
Sickness unto death
Locked doors
Evil seekers
Wall
Is it true?
Welcome morning
Jesus, the actor, plays the holy Ghost
God-monger
What the bird with the human head knew
Fire thief
Big heart
Words
Mothers
Doctors
Frenzy
Snow
Small wire
Saints come marching in
Not so. Not so.
Rowing endeth
Posthumously published work
Editor's note: Beginning the hegira: 45 Mercy Street
Talking to sheep
Falling dolls
Money swing
Food
Child bearers
Taker
Risk
Praying to big Jack
Red roses
Shout
Keeping the city
Bestiary U.S.A.: Bat
Hog
Porcupine
Hornet
Star-nosed mole
Snail
Lobster
Snake
Moose
Sheep
Cockroach
Raccoon
Seal
Earthworm
Whale
Horse
June bug
Gull
Divorce papers: Where it was at back then
Wedlock
Landscape winter
Despair
Divorce
Waking alone
Bayonet
Wedding ring dance
When the glass of my body broke
Break away
Stand-ins
Love plant
Killing the love
Red dance
Inventory of goodbye
Lost lie
End, middle, beginning
Eating the leftovers: Cigarettes and whiskey and wild, wild women
Passion of the mad rabbit
Angel food dogs
Leaves that talk
"Daddy" Warbucks
Divorce, thy name is woman
Fierceness of female
Big boots of pain
Demon Sea corpse
There you were
Consecrating mother
Words for Dr. Y.(1978): Editor's note: Letters to Dr. Y.(1960-1970)
Poems 1971-1973: Buying the whore
To like, to love
Surgeon
Speaking bitterness
Telephone
Yellow
Death king
Errand
Twelve-thousand-day honeymoon
Scorpio, bad spider, die: the horoscope poems: Madame arrives in the mail
January 1st
January 19th
January 24th
February 3rd
February 4th
February 11th
February 17th
February 20th
February 21st
March 4th
March 7th
May 30th
August 8th
August 17th
Last poems: Admonitions to a special person
In excelsis
Uses
As it was written
Lessons in hunger
Love letter written in a burning building
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