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James Sallis has published numerous poems throughout his career. Several have been collected in three volumes, Sorrow's Kitchen (2000), Black Night's Gonna Catch Me Here: Selected Poems, 1968-1998, and Leaning into the Electric Day.

Please note that this alphabetical listing is far from complete.

 

Admission
Adrift
After a Poem by Wat
Alone
Americans
Among Moons
Among the Missing
Animist
Apostrophe
Artaud
Art of Biography
Asking for Help
Attack of Literature
Beauty
Being
Beside You
Book of Hours
Borders
Boston
Breakfast at the Surrealist's
Burned-Out House
Carol
City at the Country's Still Heart
Chemin
Christmas 1969
Clearing
Coalgate
A Complete History
Country Music
Dawn
Dawn in the Country's Still Heart
The Death of Poetry
The Death of Virgil
Dedications
Departures
Desires of Memory
Eft
Elements of Style
Erotics of Early Morning
Esenin
Event
Evolutions of the Day
Excuses for Rain
Fair Weather
Family
Father
February
Finding Home
Five Deaths
For Blaise Cendrars
Forbidden Planets (for Bruce Sogolow)
For David
(Also known as 'And My Poor Fool Is Hanged?') For Guillevic
For Mandelstam
Foreign Policy
Four Jazz Choruses
The Girl the Surrealist Left Behind
Gauge
Grammars
Halfway House
Happy Endings
Harbor
Heidegger's Body Parts
Here
History of Philosophy
Home Movies
Homilies
How All Stories End
How It Started
How to Save Them
How We Keep Track of Days
Hunter
Imagining Marx
In May
In Memory
In My Solitude
In Potato's Bed
In the Realm
In the Schoolroom
Installments
Intelligent Life in Duncanville
Jazz
June 6th
Landscape
Last Best Friend
Late Dinner
Late News
Learning Russian
Letters
A Life
Lineman
Little Sister
Living with You
Love

Love, Again, at Forty
Love Poem
Manumissions
A Marriage
Marxist at 50
Meeting Myself
Memory
Memory at 3 AM
Memory's Empire
Mensuration
Miracle of Coffee
Morning
My Job
Negotiation
New Regime
New World
New Year
New York at 3 A.M.
New York Poems
News of the Absolute
Newspapers
9 Below 0
Old Poems
Ordinary Mornings
Ordinary Nights
Other Conclusions
Our Drive into the Country's Still Heart
P.S.
Pasternak
Pastoral
Peredelkino
Piano Poem
The Plan Behind Improvisation
Poems
Prayer
Preparing for the Hurricane
Principles of Aesthetics
Programme
Quickly
Rain
Reading the World
Recovery
Return
Revisions
Salvador
Santa Fe
Saturdays
The Science of Poetry
Second Generation
Sentences
Sheridan Square
Shore
Solution
Some Propositions
Some Years into It
Sorrow
Speaking to the Night
Special Effects
The Suicide
Sunday 23rd March
Sunday Afternoon
Surfaces
Surrealist Bird
The Surrealist Comes to Black Rock
Surrealist On the Move
Surrealist Poems
The Surrealist Relocates
The Surrealist Travels by Train
The Surrealist's Vacation
Susan at the Airport
Temptation of Silence
Tenderness
Tenements
Theater
They Who Have No King
Three Women
To a Friend with Good Counsel
To a Russian Friend
Traveling Light
Trotsky
Trying to Surface
Tucson
Twilight
Two Scenes from the Revolution
A vid
What Pavese Said
What It Was Like in Boston
What to Do Tomorrow
What You Must Take With You
When I Had My Own Place
Winter Afternoons
Writing at Night
Yellow

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