The Wild Braid
by Stanley Kunitz | 
Good Woman
by Lucille Clifton |
Shame Is an Ocean I Swim Across
by Mary Lambert |
Our Dead Behind Us
by Audre Lorde | 
The Man with Night Sweats
by Thom Gunn | 
Ceremonies
by Essex Hemphill |
The Marvelous Arithmetics of Distance
by Audre Lorde |
The collected poems of Frank O'Hara
by Frank O'Hara |
The Black Unicorn
by Audre Lorde | 
Long Life
by Mary Oliver | 
Ambition and Survival
by Christian Wiman | 
The Dream of a Common Language
by Adrienne Rich | 
Bough Down
by Karen Green | 
Carver
by Marilyn Nelson |
Blood, Bread, and Poetry
by Adrienne Rich |
The princess saves herself in this one
by Amanda Lovelace | 
Dream Work
by Mary Oliver |
Red Bird
by Mary Oliver |
The Way It Is
by William Stafford |
The Book of Images
by Rainer Maria Rilke |
In a book which uniquely captures 1950's America, Brainard constructs the story of his life through a series of brief entries, each beginning with the words "I remember", and continues with observations about family, film stars, lust, and the astonishing New York culture into which he moved to from Tulsa at the age of 18.