Sample Writings
by David Graham
Scroll down for a selection of my work available online.
Samples from my books, plus essays, reviews, & uncollected poems.
SPECIAL: feature on Kate Sontag's and my book,
After Confession,
in
Valparaiso Poetry Review
--includes new poems, a review of the book, and my essay on self-portraits--
Click here for sample poems from my books:
Magic Shows, Common Waters, Doggedness, Second Wind,
and
Stutter Monk.
Other poems online:
Anthology of poems
, with brief bio, at Fiera Lingue: Poets’ Corner
Acting on the Fly
Against Close Reading
Against God
Against Summary
Air Supremacy
Angels from the Realms of Glory
Air Is Not Nothing
All-Employee Christmas Party
Alternate Take
Annabelle's Story
Black Walnut
Briefly at Midnight
Canada Lake
Cold Comfort
Controlled Skid
Crow Songs
David Graham, Or Current Resident
The Dead Alive & Busy
The Dogs in Dutch Paintings
Elegy for Roger Case
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End of Summer
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Exposure
First Day of Open Windows
Homage to Sadie Bosheers
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The Honey of Earth
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Honeymoon Island
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How Straight Up Is Curved
How the Text Smells
I Call to Remembrance My Song in the Night
In Distrust of Spring
Letter to Manhattan
Letters from the Dead
Live Band
The Look of a Bay Mare
Man and Dog, Trespassing
Migrations
A Mind of Winter
Ode to Baraboo, WI
Old Poet Enduring Praise
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On the Eve of My Mother's Surgery
Paradise or Its Outskirts
The Percussive Empire
Planxty Beethoven
Poetics
Problems of Community Theater
Rough Air
Scotch Movies
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Self-Portrait Against Dream
Self-Portrait as Runner Up
Shadowing the Train
Slush
Snow is General
Springtime for Suckers
Statewide Razing
Strange Glitter
Sundowning at the Dementia Unit
Survival Diptych
The Tape in My Head
Thanksgiving Snow
These Are the Days of the Summer Novels
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These Are the Days of Tardy Fireworks
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They Feed They Face
(parody of Philip Levine)
Thou May’st In Me Behold
The Turning
Valentines in the Waste Basket
Warning to the Bartenders of Manhattan
Wedding Reception
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A Wineglass Full of Nails
The Writing Life
Essays:
Cheer Up! Spim Cures! Notes on Naming a Dog
Dwelling in Possibility: Reflections of a Homebody on the Open Road
Hendrix after Thirty Years
The Love of Country Music
Loyal Toward Reality
Man With Gun: Photographing Violence
"Millimeters and Not Miles": The Excellence of Robert Francis
A Norman Dubie Symposium
Rain
A Student's Memories of Richard Eberhart
The Table Within: Notes on Emily Dickinson
The Ultra-Talk Poem & Mark Halliday
Voluminous Underwear; Or, Why I Write Self-Portraits
Why Emily Dickinson Would Not Smile for the Camera
Reviews:
Molly McQuade’s
By Herself: Women Reclaim Poetry
Terrance Hayes:
Wind in a Box
Donald Justice, New & Selected Poems
Marianne Boruch,
Moss Burning
Sky & Island Light
by Brendan Galvin and
O Paradise
by William Trowbridge
Then, and Now by Theodore Enslin
Mary Fell,
The Persistence of Memory
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