Plain Song

To Be Written in No Other Country

Revival

In Defense of Nothing

Beginning with a Phrase from Simone Weil

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from the outernationale (2008) A Panic That Can Still Come Upon Me 77 The Outernationale 84 Stung 86 Untitled Amherst Specter 89 A Telescope Protects Its View 90 Human Memory Is Organic 92 Saturday and Its Festooned Potential 94 Vincent, Homesick for the Land of Pictures 96 Wintry Mix 101 Bolshevescent 102 The Outernationale 103

from threshold songs (2011) The Growing Edge

Hypostasis & New Year

Eye of the Poem

Analemma

Basement Song

Fragment

Pinocchio’s Gnosis

Tiny Blast

Tradition & the Indivisible Talent

Lullaby

Apocrypha

True Discourse on Power

A Note on the Text

Oversong

Bardo

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