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A collection of poems focusing on the dispossession of people afflicted by madness, homelessness, or other forms of "wildness."

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments Strabo Reading Megasthenes Dives The Guest Ellen at the Supper for Street People Committee Civilization and Its Discontents The Blind People The Proselyte A Young Woman Goodnight Nocturnal Abyss Name Of Rhyme Epigram Autumn Garden Dog Horses Unos Caballos Roof At the Hospital A Morning Song Of Violets Levis Exsurgit Zephirus Herbsttag The Lesson In the Garden Roman Elegy VIII When We Were Children Mnemosyne Harvesters Resting Mary in Old Age Prayer to the Gods of the Night Envoi Notes

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      Publisher: University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: 4/1/1993 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780226244785, 978-0226244785
      ISBN10: 0226244784

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      A collection of poems focusing on the dispossession of people afflicted by madness, homelessness, or other forms of "wildness."

      Table of Contents
      Acknowledgments Strabo Reading Megasthenes Dives The Guest Ellen at the Supper for Street People Committee Civilization and Its Discontents The Blind People The Proselyte A Young Woman Goodnight Nocturnal Abyss Name Of Rhyme Epigram Autumn Garden Dog Horses Unos Caballos Roof At the Hospital A Morning Song Of Violets Levis Exsurgit Zephirus Herbsttag The Lesson In the Garden Roman Elegy VIII When We Were Children Mnemosyne Harvesters Resting Mary in Old Age Prayer to the Gods of the Night Envoi Notes

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