Lovers of the Lost

New & Selected Poems With Manuscript Samples and Audio Recordings

Half of the titles below are Teaching Clusters. Each cluster contains various manifestations of the poem: manuscript samples with  transcript overlays, the published version and an audio recording. Clusters are indicated by asterisks. The remaining titles have audio recordings, only.Helpful aids for using the Teaching Clusters:

BEFORE YOU START: A guide for viewing the manuscript samples

AS YOU EXPLORE: Ten questions to help students explore the manuscripts

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Contents

Small Towns Are Passing Mina Bell’s Cows * The Bald Spot * Hair on Television * The Thugs of Old Comics The Faces of Americans in 1853 Where I Live *	The Faces of Americans in 1853 (University of Missouri Press, 1983)
The Town of No (David R Godine, 1989)	The Last Time Shorty Towers Fetched the Cows * Mute* Killing the Animals Ghosts The Man With the Radios The Faith Healer The Before People * A Traveler’s Advisory * What It Is * Hearing That My Father Died in a Supermarket (pending) After My Stepfather’s Death * The Abandonment * When Paul Flew Away Happiness
Young Man Going Uphill With a Bird * The Secret * The Life Seeing Mercer, Maine Making Things Clean * The One Who Will Save You * Reading Poems at the Grange Meeting in What Must Be Heaven	My Brother Running: Poems (David R Godine, 1993)
Talking in the Dark: Poems (David R Godine, 1998)	This Love Song Old Guys * Old Cadillacs The Puppy Trying to Find Her Teeth The Book of A * Weeds Waving Goodbye * Glass Night * The Characters of Dirty Jokes Poem for My Feet * The Retarded Children Play Baseball * Why We Need Poetry * Love Handles
How I Became a Poet * The Good-Boy Suit Shovels * The One I Think of Now Sleep Voiceless * Speech An Executive’s Afterlife Smoking * History of Talking on the Phone What Became The Rules of the New Car * Goodbye to the Old Life Charles by Accident * Driving North in Winter *	Fire: Poems (David R Godine, 2002)
The Ghosts of You & Me: Poems (David R Godine, 2006)	My Father Going Away The Boy Carrying the Flag Kuhre’s Farm It * Hymn to the Comb-Over * The Gangsters of Old Movies (pending) The 1950s * The Last Black and White TV * If You Had Come * As Long As We Remember Him He Will Never Die Mistakes About Heaven My Mother Enters Heaven The Man He Turned Into That Nothing As I Am * My Town * Love Poem *
For My Wife November 22, 1963 * What She Means Losing My Hair * Shame * Morning in America The Lover Her Secret (pending) First Snowfall * Love Story *	The Lover: New Poems (David R Godine, 2009)