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UA Poetry Center
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Center for Creative Photography
Hayden Carruth
Hayden Carruth reads a generous selection of work written from the 1960s to the early 1990s, from his Collected Shorter Poems, 1946-1991 (1992) published the same year as this reading. Many of the poems embody the people, places, and rural culture of Vermont. By request, he closes his reading with a poem about James Wright.
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"Regarding Chainsaws"
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Carruth, Hayden. If You Call This Cry a Song. Woodstock: Countryman Press, 1983.
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"John Dryden"
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Carruth, Hayden. Brothers, I Loved You All: Poems 1969-1977. New York: The Sheep Meadow Press, 1978.
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"The Cows at Night"
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Carruth, Hayden. From Snow and Rock, From Chaos. New York: New Directions, 1973.
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"Emergency Haying"
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Carruth, Hayden. From Snow and Rock, From Chaos. New York: New Directions, 1973.
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"Rimrock, Where It Is"
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Carruth, Hayden. From Snow and Rock, From Chaos. New York: New Directions, 1973.
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"The Joy and the Agony of Improvisation"
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Carruth, Hayden. Brothers, I Loved You All: Poems 1969-1977. New York: The Sheep Meadow Press, 1978.
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"In Memoriam"
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Carruth, Hayden. Brothers, I Loved You All: Poems 1969-1977. New York: The Sheep Meadow Press, 1978.
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"Lady"
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Carruth, Hayden. Brothers, I Loved You All: Poems 1969-1977. New York: The Sheep Meadow Press, 1978.
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"Listen"
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Carruth, Hayden. Collected Shorter Poems: 1946-1991. Port Townsend: Copper Canyon, 1993.
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"Gods"
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Carruth, Hayden. Collected Shorter Poems: 1946-1991. Port Townsend: Copper Canyon, 1993.
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"Opusthirteen"
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Carruth, Hayden. Collected Shorter Poems: 1946-1991. Port Townsend: Copper Canyon, 1993.
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"Crucifixion"
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Carruth, Hayden. Collected Shorter Poems: 1946-1991. Port Townsend: Copper Canyon, 1993.
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"Not Transhistorical Death, or at Least Not Quite"
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Carruth, Hayden. Tell Me Again How the White Heron Rises and Flies Across the Nacreous River at Twilight Toward the Distant Islands. New York: New Directions, 1989.
