American Ghost Roses.

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- One -- Wishful Rhetoric -- Two -- To the Reader Awakened by a Noisy Furnace -- An American Tale of Sex and Death -- Reintroductions -- Adolescent Hemlock -- In the House of Being -- The Cost -- Revelation in Pinks and Red -- Superstitious Manna -- Kandinsky's Concerning the Spiritual in Art -- Windfall -- Upon Witnessing My Mother Impossibly Blossom above My Father's Deathbed -- Three -- Love Poem with Knife and Last Cut Zinnia -- Sappho's Fragment 63 -- Instructor's Comments on the Poem "Eden Sleeping," Circa 1975 -- How He Answered the Glossy Magazine's Mate-Poaching Survey -- Upon Blowing Our Chance to Meet the Poet Laureate, Who's Probably a Nice Guy -- Etiquette and Epiphany in the Post-Workshop Men's Room -- The Other One -- To Bob Marley's Toe -- Ghosts -- To Bananas -- Reliquary -- Four -- Thinking of Kandinsky while Shaving My Father -- Theory &amp -- Practice -- Valentine's Day Boxing at the Madison County Jail -- Found in a Shoe Box Labeled "Keep -- In the Nuclear Age -- Upon Freeing the Ruby-Throated Hummingbird Beak-Stuck in a Screen Door -- To Wheelbarrows -- While Writing This Poem, My Horse Jumped the Pasture Fence -- These Gifts -- Won't You Stand Next to My Fire -- Tract.

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