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"Amanda Dreams She has Died and Gone to the Elysian Fields." House, Bridge, Fountain, Gate. New York: Viking, 1975.
"Excrement Poem." The Retrieval System. New York: Viking, 1978.
"Heaven as Anus." House, Bridge, Fountain, Gate. New York: Viking, 1975.
"The Jesus Infection." House, Bridge, Fountain, Gate. New York: Viking, 1975.
"Splitting Wood at Six Above." The Retrieval System. New York: Viking, 1978.
"On Being Asked to Write a Poem in Memory of Anne Sexton." Nurture. New York: Penguin, 1989.
"The Green Well." Looking for Luck. New York: Norton, 1992.
"Birthday Poem." The Retrieval System. New York: Viking, 1978.
"Sunbathing on a Rooftop in Berkeley." The Retrieval System. New York: Viking, 1978.
"We Stood There Singing." Nurture. New York: Penguin, 1989.
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Dove, Rita. Playlist for the Apocalypse. New York: Norton, 2021.
Donika Kelly reads from her first two books, Bestiary (2016) and The Renunciations (2021). She closes by reading several recent, uncollected poems.