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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