One

process

big-fiddle

avalanche

winter night

crazy hunter

Monday night

my next bride

death of a man

year before last

primer for combat

bridegroom’s body

his human majesty

seagull on the step

Frenchmen must die

underground women

plagued by nightingales

generation without farewell

gentlemen, I address you privately.

. . . . .

Two

a poem —

a glad day —

a statement  —

for February first;

this is not a letter,

dear American citizen

naturalized in Leadville;

these are collected poems,

testaments for my students,

for lost dogs at Phnom Pehn.

. . . . .

Three

short

stories

defeating

first lover’s

wedding day

life being the best

astronomer’s wife —

white horses of Vienna

thirty stories, fifty stories

nothing ever breaks except hearts

smoking mountains: postwar Germany.

. . . .

Four

nonfiction works

breaking the silence

–last rim of the world

four visions of America

being geniuses together

relations and complications

long walk at San Francisco State

words that must somehow be said —

why a mother tells her son about Nazis.

. . . . .

Five

for children —

pinky in Persia,

the cat who liked to sleep

and the youngest camel —

reconsidered and rewritten.

. . . . .

Poet: Susan Powers Bourne
Source: Works of Kay Boyle  
Process: Cento pick and mix