Roald Hoffmann

Individual Poems

137.

 sap pitch and resin, Scientific American, Sept. 2021, p. 23


136.

To the Flame, Zephyr (Kendal at Ithaca), Spring 2021, p. 3.


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135.

Crows Over Sobibor, Ithaca Times, Feb. 3-9, 2021, p. 7


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134.

Rat Language, New Letters, 84(3), 157 (2018).


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133.

Shore Rights, Night Lights, Nourish 1 (1), 42 (2018).


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132.

Translation, Epoch 67(2), 178 (2018).


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131.

Adamantine. in #Nodos, ed. Gustavo Ariel Schwartz and Victor E. Bermúdez, Next Door, Pamplona, Spain, p. 293; translated into Spanish by Victor E. Bermúdez as “Adamantino”, #Nodos, ed. Gustavo Ariel Schwartz and Victor E. Bermúdez, Next Door, Pamplona, Spain, p.315, 2017.


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130.

Jerry-Built Forever, translated into Italian by Vincenzo Schettino, in La Decima Musa, V. Schettino. Firenze University Press, 2016, p. 2.229-232.


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129.

Kamchatka (translated into Russian by Victor Fet), Mosty (Frankfurt), 42, 319-321 (2014).


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128.

 Tectonics, Alabama Literary Review, 22(1), 45-48 (2014).

 


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127.

Basket Philosophy, Alabama Literary Review, 22(1), 41-44 (2014).


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126.

 The Exchange, Southwest Review, 99(1), 121 (2014).


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125.

With, or Against, Beloit Poetry Journal, 64(2), 32-33 (2013). 


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124.

Lava, in Russian, transl. V. Fet, Svyaz Vremyon, 3, 361 (2011).


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123.

Sustainable Development, translated into Spanish as Desarollo Sustenable by Mónica Mansour, La Gaceta del Fondo de Cultura Economica, Mexico City, No. 486, June 2011, p. 3.


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122.

Theoretical Chemistry, Southwest Review, 95(1/2), 207 (2010).


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121.

The God's Face, Southern Humanities Review, 44(1), 10-12 (2010).


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120.

Just When We Are Safest, The Yale Review, 98(1), 126-127 (2010).


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119.

Constants of Motion, New Letters, 76(1), 50 (2009).


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118.

When You See a Mountain, Urhalpool, 1(2), 110 (2009).


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117.

The Seeing Is Good, Urhalpool, 1(2), 108-109 (2009).


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116.

Code, Memory, The Sigurd Journal, 1(3), 2008. Also under the title Mnemosyne's Trail, in English and Spanish (translated by Francisco Garcia Olmedo), El Invisible Anillo (Madrid), 10, 68-69 (2009).


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115.

Evolution, L'Actualite Chimique Canadienne (2008).


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114.

The Reflection, translated into Bengali by Sabyasachi Das, Nellohit (2006).


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113.

The Bond, translated into Bengali by Samir Gupta, Steps, Kolkata (2004).


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112.

Lily of the Valley, Chatauqua Literary Journal, 96 (2004).


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111.

The Mind/Body Problem, Chatauqua Literary Journal, 95 (2004).


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110.

Theoretical Chemistry, Foundations of Chemistry 6, 11 (2004).


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109.

Ground Truths (translated into Italian by Renato Miradoli) in Golem, l'Indispensabile 1 (Feb. 2003): n. pag. Online. Internet. Available: golemindispensabile.it.


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108.

To the Flame, to the Flame (translated into Italian by Renato Miradoli) in Golem, l'Indispensabile 1 (Feb. 2003): n. pag. Online. Internet. Available: golemindispensabile.it.


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107.

From Surfeit to Dearth (translated into Italian by Renato Miradoli) in Golem, l'Indispensabile 1 (Feb. 2003): n. pag. Online. Internet. Available: golemindispensabile.it.


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106.

Enough Already, Arts & Sciences Newsletter 24(2), 3 (2003).


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105.

Believing (translated into Polish by Magdalena Stefanska-Steven) in Gazeta Malarsky/Poetów p. 19 (2002).


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104.

Malacology, The Kenyon Review (2002), pp. 42-43.


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103.

Flat Stones Beg to Be Recycled, The Kenyon Review (2002), p. 41.


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102.

Dream Corps, The Massachusetts Review 63(4), 567 (2002).


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101.

Singing in the Rain, Provence, New Letters 67 (1), 34-35 (2000).


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100.

Here's What the Wind Can Do, in M.A. Safir, Ed., Connecting Creations: Science-Technology-Literature-Arts, Santiago de Compostela: Centro Gallego de Arte Contemporáneo (2000). Also translated into Spanish in the Spanish edition by Carlos Quiroga.


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99.

The Philosopher's Stone Found in January, in M.A. Safir, Ed., Connecting Creations: Science-Technology-Literature-Arts, Santiago de Compostela: Centro Gallego de Arte Contemporáneo (2000). Also translated into Spanish in the Spanish edition by Carlos Quiroga.


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98.

Oligopoem, or les 'Mers, in M.A. Safir, Ed., Connecting Creations: Science-Technology-Literature-Arts, Santiago de Compostela: Centro Gallego de Arte Contemporáneo (2000). Also translated into Spanish in the Spanish edition by Carlos Quiroga.


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97.

Why I Didn't Visit the Camp, in M.A. Safir, Ed., Connecting Creations: Science-Technology-Literature-Arts, Santiago de Compostela: Centro Gallego de Arte Contemporáneo (2000). Also translated into Spanish in the Spanish edition by Carlos Quiroga.


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96.

Toledo, in M.A. Safir, Ed., Connecting Creations: Science-Technology-Literature-Arts, Santiago de Compostela: Centro Gallego de Arte Contemporáneo (2000). Also translated into Spanish in the Spanish edition by Carlos Quiroga.


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95.

Black on Black, Hampden-Sydney Review


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94.

At First Sight, Crystal Growth and Design, 1(1), 3 (2000).


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93.

In View of the Promised Land, Midstream


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92.

Tsunami, Notre Dame Review; in M.A. Safir, Ed., Connecting Creations: Science-Technology-Literature-Arts, Santiago de Compostela: Centro Gallego de Arte Contemporáneo (2000). Also translated into Spanish in the Spanish edition by Carlos Quiroga.


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91.

Cupping, Notre Dame Review


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90.

Lessons in Being Alone, The Quad, 5(2), 8-9 (2000).


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89.

Where Shall I Look for Her?, Pembroke Magazine, 32, 421 (2000).


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88.

We Will Not Be Moved, Pembroke Magazine, 32, 420 (2000); Arts & Sciences Newsletter 24(2), 3 (2003).


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87.

Birdland, Pembroke Magazine, 32, 419 (2000).


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86.

Fields of Vision, Michigan Quarterly Review, 39(2), 244 (2000); in M.A. Safir, Ed., Connecting Creations: Science-Technology-Literature-Arts, Santiago de Compostela: Centro Gallego de Arte Contemporáneo (2000). Also translated into Spanish in the Spanish edition by Carlos Quiroga.


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85.

Interface, Southern Humanities Review, 33(2), 183 (1999).


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84.

One Asks, Queen's Quarterly, 106(1), 153 (1999).


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83.

Specula, Weber Studies, 16(1), 17-21 (1998); translated into Catalan and Spanish in Nexus, 28, 15-17 and 75-76 (2002).


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82.

Isaac's Fall, Rendezvous, 31(2), 15-16 (1997).


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81.

Free, Rendezvous, 31(2), 8-9 (1997).


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80.

Like a Gas Flame Going Out with the Sound of Trying for Life (translated into Polish by Magdalena Stefánska), Humanistyka i Plec, II. Kobiety w Poznaniu Naukowym Wczoraj i Dzis, ed. Elzbieta Pakszys and Danuta Sobczynska, Adam Mickiewicz University Press, Poznan, 1997, pp.192-195.


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79.

How It Grows, in The Book of Love, ed. Diane Ackerman and Jeanne Mackin (New York: W.W. Norton, 1998), pp.468-469.


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78.

Chemical Said Song, Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystal, 284, 1-2 (1996).


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77.

Tremors, Yeshiva Review, 2(3), 10 (1996).


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76.

Natural History, Chelsea, 59, 7 (1996).


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75.

Arctic Hegira, Grand Street, 52, 110-11 (1995).


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74.

Fact, Facet, Face, Raritan, XV(I), 35 (1995).


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73.

Cheiron in Woodside, California (translated into Russian by Yu. A.Danilov), Voprosi Istorii Yestestvoznania i Techniki, 2, 171-172 (1994).


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72.

Why Does Disorder in the Universe Increase in the Same Direction of Time as That in Which the Universe Expands, The Madison Review, 16(2), 45 (1994).


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71.

Eva at Skogshem(translated into Croatian by Mate Maras), Velikane nase epohe (Zagreb, 1994), p. 321; (translated into Croatian by Nenad Trinajstic) Ogledi o Znanosti i Znanstvenicima (Zagreb: Matica Hrvatska, 1998).


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70.

Olive Tree Master, Colorado Review, XXI(2), 103 (1994).


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69.

Havana, 1990-1517, Colorado Review, XXI(2), 102 (1994).


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68.

Juan de Prado in Amsterdam, 1656, Colorado Review, XXI(2), 100-101 (1994).


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67.

The Scientific Method, New Letters, 60(3), 103 (1994).


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66.

How Exactly Was This Done, Prairie Schooner, 68(3), 6 (1994).


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65.

Method Acting, Point Judith Light,


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64.

Deceptively Like a Solid, Glass Technology, 34(2), 62 (1993); reprinted in J. Amer. Ceramic Soc., 81(4), 799 (1998).


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63.

Rewrit, in R. Hoffmann and V. Torrence, Chemistry Imagined, Smithsonian Institition Press, Washington 1993, pp. 74-77; in M.A. Safir, ed., Connecting Creations: Science-Technology-Literature-Arts, Santiago de Compostela: Centro Gallego de Arte Contemporáneo (2000). Also translated into Spanish in the Spanish edition by Carlos Quiroga.


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62.

Heat:Hot, as : Cold, in R. Hoffmann and V. Torrence, Chemistry Imagined, Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington 1993, p. 46.


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61.

Purlieu (translated into Swedish by Lars-Håkan Svensson), Lyrikvännen, 1-2, 69-70 (1992).


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60.

The Bering Bridge, New England Review, 14(4), 191 (1992); in Writing on Air, ed. D. Rothenberg & W.J. Pryor, MIT Press, 2003; in M.A. Safir, Ed., Connecting Creations: Science-Technology-Literature-Arts, Santiago de Compostela: Centro Gallego de Arte Contemporáneo (2000). Also translated into Spanish in the Spanish edition by Carlos Quiroga.


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59.

Two Fathers (translated into Russian by Victor Raikin), Khimya i Zhiz'n, 90-91 (1992); translated into Polish by Magdalena Stefanska-Steven in Gazeta Malarsky/Poetów, p.21 (2002).


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58.

Longing (translated into Russian by Victor Raikin), Khimya i Zhiz'n, 90 (1992).


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57.

Bonding, Aldrichimica Acta, 24(2), 56 (1991); in R. Hoffmann and V. Torrence, Chemistry Imagined, Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington 1993, pp. 119-123.


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56.

Ponder Fire, The Paris Review, 33(121), 190 (1991).


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55.

Giving In, The Paris Review, 33(121), 189 (1991); Cornell Alumni News, 94(5), 43 (1991); (translated into Spanish), La Republica (Montevideo, Uruguay), March 3, 1993, p. 37; in R. Hoffmann and V. Torrence, Chemistry Imagined, Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, 1993, pp. 133-134; in M.A. Safir, ed., Connecting Creations: Science-Technology-Literature-Arts, Santiago de Compostela: Centro Gallego de Arte Contemporáneo (2000). Also translated into Spanish in the Spanish edition by Carlos Quiroga.


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54.

A Sunset Clause, Carolina Quarterly, 43(2), 33 (1991).


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53.

Listen, in Life on the Line, ed. S.B. Walker and R.D. Roffman, Negative Capability Press, Mobile, 1992, p. 459.


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52.

Here's What Thistles Can Do, Beloit Poetry Journal, 41(2), 4 (1990); in M.A. Safir, ed., Connecting Creations: Science-Technology-Literature-Arts, Santiago de Compostela: Centro Gallego de Arte Contemporáneo (2000). Also translated into Spanish in the Spanish edition by Carlos Quiroga.


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51.

The Sensual Laboratory Assistant, Beloit Poetry Journal, 41(2), 3 (1990).


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50.

Into the Stadium, Beloit Poetry Journal, 41(2), 2 (1990).


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49.

Looking Into the Cave, Studies in American Jewish Literature, 9(2), 222 (1990); The Bookpress, 4(7), 2 (1994).


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48.

My Haunt, Studies in American Jewish Literature, 9(2), 222 (1990).


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47.

June 1943, Studies in American Jewish Literature, 9(2), 221 (1990); (translated into Swedish by Lars-Håkan Svensson), Lyrikvännen, 1-2, 69 (1992).


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46.

Bora, Bora-Bora, Kentucky Poetry Review, 25, 26 (1989/90).


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45.

Games in the Attic, The Scientist, Dec. 11, 1989, p. 15.


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44.

Speaker for the Dead, Midstream, 35(7), 64 (1989).


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43.

What We Have Learned About the Pineal, The Jacaranda Review, IV(1), 155 (1989).


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42.

The Difference Between Art and Science, II, Webster Review, 14(2), 89 (1990).


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41.

Survival Techniques, Prairie Schooner, 63(2), 27 (1989).


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40.

Hitchhiking, Prairie Schooner, 63(2), 26 (1989).


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38.

In Need of Mending, Nimrod, 32(1), 121 (1988).


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37.

Stretch Marks, Negative Capability, VIII(3), 37 (1988).


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36.

The 1986 Nobel Prize in Physics, Images, 13(3), 4 (1988). In R. Hoffmann and V. Torrence, Chemistry Imagined, Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington 1993, pp. 112-113.


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35.

In an Antique Shop in 's-Gravenhage, Kentucky Poetry Review, 24(1), 25 (1988).


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34.

Intuition, Thirteen, VI(3), 37 (1988); Glass Technology, 34(2), 84 (1993); (translated into Croatian), Velikane na_e epohe (Zagreb: 1994), p. 321; (translated into Croatian by Nenad Trinajstic) Ogledi o Znanosti i Znanstvenicima (Zagreb: Matica Hrvatska, 1998).


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33.

Evolution, Southwest Review, 73, 273 (1988); Current Contents, 31 (51/52), 7 (1991); (translated into Spanish by Carlos Chimal), Avance y Perspectiva, 11, 384 (1992); also in La Jornada, Semanal, May 24, 1998, p. 16; The New Theater Review, 11, 16 (1994); (translated into Polish by Magdalena Stefanska-Steven), in Gazeta Malarsky/Poetów p.19 (2002).


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32.

Grand Unification, Triquarterly, 72, 50 (1988).


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31.

Hydropathic, Thirteen, VI(2), 25 (1988).


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30.

Height, Thirteen, VI(2), 10 (1988); (translated into Korean), Sisa Journal, Oct. 28, 1993, p. 101; (translated into Polish by Magdalena Stefanska-Steven), in Gazeta Malarsky/Poetów (2002), p. 19.


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29.

The Difference Between Art and Science (translated into French by Pierre Laszlo), Nouv. J. Chim., 12, 4 (1988); (translated into Portuguese by Clara Pinto Correia), CTS (Lisbon), No. 7/8, 16 (1989); Chemisch Weekblad, 86(51/52), 564 (1990); (translated into Spanish) La Republica (Montevideo, Uruguay), March 3, 1993, p. 37.


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28.

Corral, South Coast Poetry Journal, 4, 46 (1987), (2nd prize in the 2nd Annual Poetry Contest.); in M.A. Safir, ed., Connecting Creations: Science-Technology-Literature-Arts, Santiago de Compostela: Centro Gallego de Arte Contemporáneo (2000). Also translated into Spanish in the Spanish edition by Carlos Quiroga.


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27.

Breaking (translated into Swedish by Jonas Ellerström), Transit (Lund, Sweden), 16, 28 (1987); Confrontation, 51, 232 (1993).


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26.

Bicycling on Lidingö (translated into Swedish by Jonas Ellerström), Transit (Lund, Sweden) 16, 27 (1987).


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25.

Svoloch, The New York Quarterly, 33, 98 (1987); (translated into Russian by Victor Raikin), Novoe Vremya (Moscow), 22, 48 (1991); Alef (Jerusalem), 386, (15 July 1991); Khimya i Zhiz'n, 92 (1992).


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24.

To What End, ibid., p. 105.


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23.

Searchers and Deciders, in Societal Issues, Scientific Viewpoints, ed. M. A. Strom, American Institute of Physics, New York (1987), p.2; (translated into Russian by Victor Raikin) Literaturnaya Gazeta, Feb. 28, 1990.


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22.

Modes of Representation, The Journal, 11, 45 (1987); Chemisch Weekblad, 86(51/52), 564 (1990).


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21.

Christmas, or Was It a Birthday, Piedmont Literary Review (1987).


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20.

Touching the Surface, New Letters (1987). (Honorable mention in New Letters Literary Awards for 1986.); (translated into French by Pierre Laszlo), Nouv. J. Chim., 12, 5 (1988); (translated into Portuguese by Clara Pinto Correia) CTS (Lisbon), 7/8, 17 (1989).


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19.

Carcinoma, The Laurel Review, Winter/Summer 1987, 60; (translated into Polish by Magdalena Stefanska-Steven), in Gazeta Malarsky/Poetów p. 20 (2002).


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18.

Organic, Inorganic, Kentucky Poetry Review 23(2), 38 (1987).


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17.

Mind Grackles, Gryphon, XII(2), 68 (1987); (translated into French by Pierre Laszlo), Nouv. J. Chim., 12, 5 (1988).


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16.

The Man for Whom Everything Came Easy, ibid., 1, 18 (1987); (translated into Polish by Magdalena Stefanska-Steven), in Gazeta Malarsky/Poetów p. 21 (2002).


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15.

Terrorists, Alabama Literary Review, 1, 17 (1987).


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14.

Of Scatological Interest, Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review, Winter 1987, 59.


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13.

New Traffic Patterns Ahead, Negative Capability VII(I), 123 (1987). (3rd prize winner in the Eve of St. Agnes Competition.)


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12.

Natural History; Speaker for the Dead in Bittersweet Legacy: Creative Responses to the Holocaust; Studies in the Shoah 24, ed. C. Moskowitz Brody, University Press of America, 2001.


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12.

June 1944, Prairie Schooner, 61(1), 78 (1987); in M.A. Safir, ed., Connecting Creations: Science-Technology-Literature-Arts, Santiago de Compostela: Centro Gallego de Arte Contemporáneo (2000). Also translated into Spanish in the Spanish edition by Carlos Quiroga.


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11.

Be Wanting, Folio, 3(2), 21 (1986); (translated into Polish by Magdalena Stefánska), Humanistyka i Plec, II. Kobiety w Poznaniu Naukowym Wczoraj i Dzis, ed. Elzbieta Pakszys and Danuta Sobczynska, Adam Mickiewicz University Press, Poznan, 1997, pp. 82-83.


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11.

Modes of Representation; Giving In in A Quark for Mister Mark, ed. M. Riordan and J. Turney, London: Faber and Faber, 2000.


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10.

Next Slide Please, Aldrichimica Acta, 19(1), 27 (1986); in The Longman Literary Companion to Science, ed. W. Gratzer, Longman, London, 1989, p. 70; (translated into Polish by Magdalena Stefanska-Steven) in Gazeta Malarsky/Poetów p. 20 (2002).


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10.

Into the Stadium; The Sensual Laboratory Assistant. A Fine Excess: Fifty Years of the Beloit Poetry Journal, ed. M.K. Stocking, Beloit Poetry Journal Found Lamoine, 2000.


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9.

The Devil Teaches Thermodynamics, Webster Review, XI(2), 41 (1986); (translated into Portuguese by Clara Pinto Correia) CTS (Lisbon), 7/8, 18 (1989); (translated into German) Kultur & Technik, 3, 43 (1992); in R. Hoffmann and V. Torrence, Chemistry Imagined, Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington 1993, pp. 53-56.


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9.

Giving In in Verse and Universe: Poems about Science and Mathematics, ed. K. Brown, Milkweed Editions, Minneapolis, 1998.


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8.

Napkin Engineering, The Manhattan Review, 4(1), 3 (1986); (translated into French by Pierre Laszlo) Nouv. J. Chim., 12, 4 (1988); in Rhysling Anthology, 1987, p. 13; in M.A. Safir, ed., Connecting Creations: Science-Technology-Literature-Arts, Santiago de Compostela: Centro Gallego de Arte Contemporáneo (2000). Also translated into Spanish in the Spanish edition by Carlos Quiroga.


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8.

How It Grows in The Book of Love, ed. Diane Ackerman and Jeanne Mackin, New York: W.W. Norton, 1998, pp. 468-469.


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7.

An Unusual State of Matter, in Bound, ed. W. Carleton, C. Bond, Cornell University (1986); (translated into Portuguese by Clara Pinto Correia), CTS (Lisbon), No. 7/8, 15 (1989); Current Contents, 31(51/52), 5 (1991).


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6.

Three Japanese Edo Period Pots, Vienna Review (Brandeis University) (1985).


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5.

Cosmetic Company Buys Eisenhower College, Michigan Quarterly Review, 24(2), 217 (1985).


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4.

From a Rise of Land to the Sea, ibid., p. 120; (translated into French by Pierre Laszlo) Nouv. J. Chim., 12, 6 (1988).


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3.

Finnair Fragment, in Songs from Unsung Worlds, ed. B. B. Gordon, Birkhauser, Boston, 1985, p. 80.


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2.

Fluorite, Synthesis, Harvard University, Cambridge, 7(1), 46 (1984); in revised form in The Sciences, 28, Sept. Oct., p. 30 (1988); in John C. Kotz and Keith F. Purcell, Chemistry and Chemical Reactivity, Saunders College Publishing, New York, 1991, p. 241.


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1.

Men and Molecules, Synthesis, Harvard University, Cambridge, 7(1), 43 (1984); (translated into Portuguese by Clara Pinto Correia), CTS (Lisbon), 7/8, 19 (1989); (translated into Croatian by Mate Maras), Velikane nase epohe (Zagreb: 1994), p. 321;(translated into Croatian by Nenad Trinajstic) in Ogledi o Znanosti i Znanstvenicima (Zagreb: Matica Hrvatska, 1998).


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