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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Foreword by Mark Payne -- Imitator's Note -- 1 -- So reactionaries and radicals complain (Aetia, book 1, frag. 1: proem) -- This is a story with a happy ending (Aetia, book 3, frag. 67-75) -- That island feast (Galatea, frag. 378) -- Apollo has come to our house party, and Aphrodite (Lyric, frag. 227) -- Caro, you didn't seem to experience more (Epigram 62) -- Sleep, Conopion, sleep (Epigram 64) -- Zeus (I read here) once made love for three hundred years (Aetia, book 2, frag. 48) -- It's easier to explain if we use Mr. Spock (Epigram 43) -- The lord of the gods gets crushes on people too (Epigram 53) -- Honestly I don't know (Hecale, frag. 274) -- I hate to say it, Lee, but you look awful (Epigram 32) -- You were already in pain (Epigram 44) -- Warm ashes may flare up when stirred (Epigram 45) -- Don't worry, you (Hecale, frag. 256) -- There are so many versions of Aphrodite (Iamb 10, frag. 200a) -- Once they decided to make a home together (Epigram 27) -- The shepherds I know tell stories for one another (Epigram 24) -- When you can't be with somebody you want to be with-(Epigram 33) -- It's hard work making people fall in love (Epigram 39) -- Snakes stand for danger, but also for things intertwining (Aetia, book 4, frag. 101a) -- Snakes stand for danger, but also for things intertwining (Aetia, book 4, frag. 101b) -- Fun fact: long ago, in the age of myth (Epigram 47) -- 2 -- The fuckers renamed an airport for a tyrant (Epigram 8) -- It hurts to be poor. It hurts more (Hecale, frag. 275) -- Choose me, Athena, defender (frag. 556, 638, 644) -- Berenice, rightful governor (frag. 388) -- All the Greek cities have seen their refugees (Aetia, book 2, frag. 44-51) -- The way a word like sanction, or inflammable (Aetia, book 4, frag. 90). Dear Thracians-no, dear citizens (Aetia, book 4, frag. 104) -- You're the kind of rich dude who drains wetlands (Aetia, book 3, frag. 64) -- People are going to hate you once you've won (Aetia, book 3, frag. 84-85) -- Now we pour out wine (Hymn 1: To Zeus) -- 3 -- What the-(Aetia, book 1, frag. 31g, and frag. 620 and 731) -- There are so many-too many (Aetia, book 3, frag. 79) -- Nobody wants to talk about lochia. Or about menstruation (Aetia, book 3, frag. 65) -- Pour one out for women who date men (Lyric, frag. 226) -- Remember when we didn't get along? (Aetia, book 3, frag. 80-82) -- Goddess of parturition, listen when Cleo (Epigram 54) -- Asclepius, god of medicine, we've paid (Epigram 55) -- Artemis! Phileratis has placed (Epigram 35) -- Horses don't get periods. They used to (Iambs, frag. 223) -- Child-careworkers deserve to retire with pensions (Epigram 51) -- As in Hamlet, but harmless (Iambs, frag. 223) -- You were always a lamb (Aetia, book 1, frag. 27) -- Why is the stork called an avenger? (Hecale, frag. 271) -- In my poems about the origins of things (Iambs, frag. 221) -- This morning Patricia drew her own picture (Epigram 35) -- "My daughter won't leave her room, even though" (Epigram 41) -- I wish you wouldn't yell at me for trying (Hecale, frag. 248) -- Sometimes you just hit a wall (Aetia, book 4, frag. 97) -- What does Artemis want with attention? Of all the gods (Hymn 3: To Artemis) -- 4 -- Half of me-an intangible half-is alive (Epigram 42) -- The poets who win a contest (Epigram 10) -- One of the Muses took this singer (frag. 471) -- Sometimes you don't want it (Aetia, book 1, frag. 2) -- You shouldn't make children work all the time (Iambs, frag. 222) -- Apollo, lord of my only art, mouse god (Iamb 3, frag. 193) -- Everything I set down has a source (frag. 612) -- Henry's new poems sound a lot like Hesiod's (Epigram 29). Attribution is weird, and scholars get it wrong (Epigram 7) -- Lucky Orestes (Epigram 60) -- The bitter god called Envy tried to get under (from Hymn 2: To Apollo) -- He was in one of those bands that use so much reverb (Iambs, frag. 215) -- When I began writing, I felt like a constellation (Epigram 56) -- Cover me quietly, stone (Epigram 28) -- Bunting I like, but not Olson, or Bernstein, or Pound (Epigram 30) -- Once on the hill of Tmolus (Iamb 4, frag. 194) -- 5 -- My Muses, my Graces, I'm tired (Aetia, book 4, frag. 112: epilogue) -- Cheer up, goats! (Epigram 63a) -- Cheer up, malefactors! (Epigram 63b) -- I already know how your friends with the school-spirit hoodies (Epigram 4) -- Everybody wants to be the talent (Aetia, book 4, frag. 100) -- This bow (Epigram 38) -- What or who are you, whose nameplate reads Opportunity? (Epigram 59) -- Those who have known a god must know (frag. 557, 586) -- I'm an old nautilus egg case. I make a good toy (Epigram 6) -- Timon, you were part of an institution (Epigram 5) -- My first teacher prayed (Epigram 49) -- You've been my friend for a while. You know you can trust me (Iamb 5, frag. 195) -- For the sake of Laura Jane Grace and all the graces (Epigram 34) -- We all made fun of Celia when we learned that her name meant "hair" (Hecale, frag. 288 and 304) -- Eyes take what's seen and rarely ask for more (Hecale, frag. 282) -- Gentle wind from the south that meant we were coming home (Iamb 8, frag. 198) -- Our people have our own holidays (Aetia, frag. 178) -- 6 -- I lost my friend's laptop. I thought about skipping town (Epigram 46) -- Hermes, you've definitely been around for a while (Iamb 9, frag. 199) -- I am a superhero with mask, gloves, and boots on (Epigram 26) -- I'm an enamel pin with a black-and-yellow(Epigram 57) -- By using no spice but salt (Epigram 48). I am the deity of the periphery (Iamb 7, frag. 197) -- There are more than two, and they work in secret (Aetia, frag. 115) -- There were four Graces. There are not (Epigram 52) -- Of course Athena does not date men (Hecale, frag. 261) -- The goddess we call our foe (Hecale, frag. 299, 301) -- The soft hats I brought back from my travels (Aetia, book 2, frag. 43) -- Some inventions are simple (Aetia, frag. 177) -- Lift up the basket for the harvest festival (Hymn 6: To Demeter) -- 7 -- The pillar at the dock must sing his song (Aetia, book 4, frag. 103) -- Why do I write? Experience (frag. 714) -- Don't let yourself or your friends or your children leave (Hecale, frag. 278) -- I'm not exactly from poverty, or from obscurity (Iamb 13, frag. 203) -- From welcoming the stranger (Hecale, frag. 231) -- Don't hold yourself superior to others (Epigram 4) -- The gods (to put it calmly) aren't big fans (Aetia, book 4, frag. 96) -- Justice will give you your due (Hecale, frag. 358) -- We build cities and towns, we mortals. The deathless gods (frag. 467, 480, 491) -- "Goodbye to the sunlit world," said Klia, who took (Epigram 25) -- The singer who wrote the songs for the band Game Theory (Epigram 9) -- Whatever happens happens for all time (Epigram 11) -- Nothing new will vex you or make you heartsick (Hecale, frag. 263) -- Visual depictions of suicide kill (Epigram 22) -- Nobody knows what the gods will bring tomorrow (Epigram 16) -- When I am in cemeteries I consider (Epigram17) -- Cress was the best kind of chatterbox. Her classmates (Epigram 18) -- Here lies Nicholas, the son (Epigram 21) -- I named my son after his grandfather (Epigram 23) -- The god who made us made us such (Hecale, frag. 298) -- The same, single, visible, daily phenomenon (Hecale, frag. 291) -- Sometimes people won't listen. Sometimes they can't (Aetia, book 1, frag. 23). At one time all the animals-(Iamb 2, frag. 192) -- It is not for me-gods forbid it-to watch (Hymn 5: To Athena) -- Acknowledgments -- Epilogue to Callimachus -- Index of Greek first lines.
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