© 2014, Text by Michael Bazzett
© 2014, Cover photograph by Alec Soth (Magnum Photos)
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Published 2014 by Milkweed Editions
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Cover photograph by Alec Soth (Magnum Photos)
Author photo by Leslie Bazzett
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Bazzett, Michael.
[Poems. Selections]
You must remember this / Michael Bazzett. -- First edition.
pages cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-57131-930-2 (ebook) I. Title.
PS3602.A999A6 2014
811›.6--dc23
2014019175
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For Leslie
When They Meet, They Can’t Help It
The Difficulty of Holding Time
The Same Bones
Some Party
The Building
The Sinclair Gift Emporium
Rather Than Read Another Word
The Last Expedition
Holder Strand
II
Oil and Ash
Look, he said, and pointed
Aria
from A Natural History of Silence
Unspoken
From Chaos
What Might
September Picnic
Interrogation
Lions
A Woman Stands in a Field
The Crisis
Elpenor
Look, Overlook
III
The Dark Thing
The Book of _______________
Nuns
The Shop Across the Street
The People Who Came Afterward
The Professional
Imperfection
The Horse
Now Here, Nowhere
In the Pasture Corner
How It Survived for a While
The School
The Orangutan
Manhood
