Legitimate Dangers by Marvin, Cate -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Copyright Dedication Contents Preface Introduction Rick Barot

Many Are Called Eight Elegies Reading Plato

Dan Beachy-Quick

Prologue Unworn Psalm (Traherne) Afterword

Joshua Beckman

[“Final poem for the gently sifting public begins on the streets…”] [“I like your handsome drugs. Your pleasant…”] [“The thirst of the crowd. We laid the surfer down…”] [“The canals. The liquor coming through…”] Ode to the Air Traffic Controller

Josh Bell

Poem to Line My Casket with, Ramona Zombie Sunday (Had We but World Enough and Time) Meditation on The Consolation of Philosophy Sleeping with Artemis

David Berman

Democratic Vistas April 13, 1865 Community College in the Rain From His Bed in the Capital City

Erica Bernheim

I Love How Your Eyes Close Every Time You Kiss Me Like a Face Anne Boleyn Pavese Said Death Will Come Bearing Your Eyes

Mark Bibbins

Just Yesterday All but Lost Groupie Slutty

Sherwin Bitsui

The Northern Sun Apparition Chrysalis

Richard Blanco

Elegant Endings We’re Not Going to Malta... Perfect City Code How It Begins | How It Ends

Joel Brouwer

Aesthetics Divorce Hamartia Symbolized by the Stray “Kelly, Ringling Bros. Oldest Elephant, Goes On Rampage” The Spots

Oni Buchanan

The Only Yak in Batesville, Virginia The Girls The Term Room 40 Transporter

Julianne Buchsbaum

Thrillsville The Power Plant In Squire Park with M., Esquire Phantoms of Utopia Slowly, Slowly, Horses

Stephen Burt

Ocean State Persephone (Unplugged) Paysage Moralisé Morningside Park

Dan Chiasson

My Ravine Vermont Song for a Play Stealing from Your Mother The Elephant

Carrie St. George Comer

Long Goodbye Shelburne Falls Arbor

Olena Kalytiak Davis

Sweet Reader, Flanneled and Tulled Thirty Years Rising All the Natural Movements of the Soul The Unbosoming If You Are Asked

Mónica de la Torre

How to Look at Mexican Highways Driven by a Strange Desire Golfers in the Family

Timothy Donnelly

Twenty-seven Props for a Production of Eine Lebenszeit Three Panels Depending on the Heart The New Intelligence Birdsong from Inside the Egg

Ben Doyle

The War Is Over Our Man Forensics

Thomas Sayers Ellis

Sticks Atomic Bride Slow Fade to Black Zapruder

Andrew Feld

On Fire The Boxers Intermission

Monica Ferrell

Myths of the Disappearance Geburt des Monicakinds Stories from the Tower

Miranda Field

Childhood’s House Miraculous Image Scold’s Mask Subway Housefire

Nick Flynn

Swarm Hive Emptying Town Cartoon Physics, part 1 Cartoon Physics, part 2

Katie Ford

Flesh Nocturne The Hands of the Body Without the Body, and Nothing to Hold Colosseum

Arielle Greenberg

Afterward, There Will Be a Hallway Berlin Series Nostalgia, Cheryl, Is the Best Heroin Saints Analogies

Jennifer Grotz

The Last Living Castrato Not Body The Wolf Kiss of Judas

Matthea Harvey

Abandoned Conversation with the Senses Our Square of Lawn Ideas Go Only So Far Definition of Weather Pity the Bathtub Its Forced Embrace of the Human Form

Terrance Hayes

Wind in a Box The Blue Terrance The Elegant Tongue A Postcard from Okemah Talk

Steve Healey

As Western Culture Declined Without Its Knowing Where Spring Is My Wrist Split Open

Thomas Heise

Corrections My Pietà Zombie

Brian Henry

The Pyramid Skin Rooms Submarine

Christine Hume

Explanation: Sampler City Hume’s Suicide of the External World Comprehension Questions

Major Jackson

Blunts Euphoria Pest Don Pullen at the Zanzibar Blue Jazz Café

Lisa Jarnot

Poem Beginning with a Line by Frank Lima The New Life Song of the Chinchilla The United States of America The Girl Who Couldn’t Be Loved

A. Van Jordan

Beggar’s Song Kind of Blue Public Radio Plays Eddie Harris

Ilya Kaminsky

Author’s Prayer Dancing in Odessa Maestro

Sally Keith

Orphean Song Mechanics The Gallery Subtraction Song

Suji Kwock Kim

Occupation Monologue for an Onion On Sparrows

James Kimbrell

Empty House Letters to a Vanishing Fiancée Salvation My Psychic

Joanna Klink

And Having Lost Track Porch in Snow Mariana Trench Orpheus. Eurydice. Hermes

Noelle Kocot

Bad Aliens An Ordinary Evening Gypsy Summer Civilization Day I Am Like a Desert Owl, an Owl Among the Ruins

Katy Lederer

Sympathy and Envy A Dream of Mimesis In Las Vegas

Dana Levin

Ars Poetica (the idea) Chill Core Glass Heart Cinema Verité

Maurice Manning

First A Condensed History of Beauty On Death On God “[O boss of ashes boss of dust...]”

Sabrina Orah Mark

Hello The Babies The Mustache Transylvania, 1919 The Experiments Lasted Through the Winter

Corey Marks

Portrait of a Child Three Bridges After the Shipwreck

Khaled Mattawa

I Was Buried in Janzoor Growing Up with a Sears Catalog in Benghazi, Libya Echo & Elixir 1 Echo & Elixir 2

Jeffrey McDaniel

Logic in the House of Sawed-Off Telescopes Lineage Opposites Attack The Archipelago of Kisses Dear America

Joyelle McSweeney

Still Life w/Influences The Wind Domes Persuasion

Sarah Messer

Look, With this change to indoor lighting, Rendered Dog Marriage Proposal

Ethan Paquin

Hearing Music Through Dark Trees Capstone Where Were You

Alan Michael Parker

Driving Past My Exit The Vandals The Vandals Dying Practicing Their Diffidence, the Vandals

D.A. Powell

[when you touch down upon this earth.little reindeers] [sleek mechanical dart: the syringe noses into the blue vein marking the target of me] [tall and thin and young and lovely the michael with kaposi’s sarcoma goes walking] [writing for a young man on the redline train: “to his boy mistress”] [coda & discography]

Kevin Prufer

For the Unfortunates The End of the City A Car Has Fallen from a Bridge The Rise of Rome On Finding a Swastika Carved on a Tree in the Hills above Heidelberg

Srikanth Reddy

Corruption Scarecrow Eclogue Second Circle Evening with Stars Burial Practice

Spencer Reece

Portofino Autumn Song The Clerk’s Tale

Paisley Rekdal

Strawberry Stupid What Was There to Bring Me to Delight But to Love and Be Loved? A crash of rhinos

Matthew Rohrer

Childhood Stories from The World at Night My Government We Never Should Have Stopped at Pussy Island

Tessa Rumsey

More Important Than the Design of Cities Will Be the Design of Their Decay Man-Torpedo-Boat Assembling My Shepherd Never Morocco Big Rig the Baroque Sky

Robyn Schiff

At Shedd Aquarium Chanel No. 5 Vampire Finch Woodpecker Finch House of Dior

Patty Seyburn

The Alphabetizer Speaks First Bookshelf What I Disliked About the Pleistocene Era

Brenda Shaughnessy

Your Name on It Epithalament Postfeminism You Love, You Wonder Panopticon

Richard Siken

Boot Theory A Primer for the Small Weird Loves Saying Your Names

Tracy K. Smith

Self-Portrait as the Letter Y History Duende

Juliana Spahr

localism or t/here December 1, 2002 December 4, 2002 January 28, 2003

Larissa Szporluk

One Thousand Bullfrogs Rejoice Meteor Holy Ghost Eohippus Elsewhere

Brian Teare

First person plural is a house Set for a Southern Gothic Detail From “Set for a Southern Gothic” Dead House Sonnet Trick Noir

Ann Townsend

They Call You Moody Touch Me Not Modern Love

Natasha Trethewey

Miscegenation Genus Narcissus Countess P—’s Advice for New Girls Native Guard

Pimone Triplett

Story for the Mother Tongue Next to Last Prayer Portraits at the Epicenter

Karen Volkman

[Now I promise…] [If it be event…] The Case May Kiss Me Deadly

G.C. Waldrep

The Miracles of St. Sebastian What Begins Bitterly Becomes Another Love Poem Hotel d’Avignon O Canada!

Joe Wenderoth

As Hour and Year Collapsed Send New Beasts Narrative Poem Where I Stand with Regard to the Game

Greg Williamson

Italics, Mine Nervous Systems Junkyard

Emily Wilson

[Wind in bare vines…] Relict Coal Age The Fossil Garden

Suzanne Wise

Testimony Confession 50 Years in the Career of an Aspiring Thug Advice

Rebecca Wolff

Press Play Sybil Lamb, Willow: An Arch Dolefulness Has Taken Me This Far

Mark Wunderlich

Amaryllis Voluntary Servitude Fourteen Things We’re Allowed to Bring to the Underworld Predictions About a Black Car

Monica Youn

Naglfar Night Ferry to Naxos 1 Night Ferry to Naxos 2 Flatlanders

C. Dale Young

Proximity Torn Infidelity

Kevin Young

Soundtrack The Rushes Negative Song of Smoke Errata

Matthew Zapruder

Canada School Street Whoever You Are

Andrew Zawacki

Credo Velocity Among the Ruins of Angel Republic Vertigo [from] Viatica

Rachel Zucker

Diary (Underworld) Not Knowing Nijinsky or Diaghilev In Your Version of Heaven I Am Younger

Photo Credits Further Reading Acknowledgments Editors’ Acknowledgments The Editors

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