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Tables of Contents for Elegies in Blue
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Learning To Do Philosophy
Oracion: A Man at Prayer
3
2
The Boy Learns to Ask Important Questions
5
3
The Rags of Time on Rio Vista Farm
8
6
The Boy Wants to Know About Names
14
3
Philosophy: The Woman at the Bar
17
3
Why Men Quit: An Intellectual Inquiry
20
4
The Man Meditates on Being Middle Aged
24
7
Now, No One Knows Why You Fought
The Word ``Transvestite'' Will Not Appear in this Poem
31
6
Work
37
3
After Spain: For Edwin Rolfe
40
3
What Was It All For, Anyway Cesar, Cesar Chavez?
43
3
Angel
46
2
Elegy for Burciaga
48
3
Photograph: Fidel and Che, 1964
51
2
The Stranger Goes Home
53
4
American Camps
57
6
Elegies in Blue
The Blue I Loved
63
2
The Boy Falls in Love With Beginnings
65
2
``Denise Levertov, Poet and Political Activist, Dies at 74''
67
4
The Poet, Having Dreamed that He Died, Writes a Long-Winded Epitaph for Himself in the Third Person
71
2
At the Graves of the Twentieth Century
73
1
At the Grave of Karl Marx
73
2
At the Grave of J.E.K.
75
1
At the Grave of Pancho Villa
76
3
At the Grave of David Macias
79
1
At the Grave of Juan Lucero Saenz
80
2
At the Grave of the Twentieth Century
82
4
Elegy Written on a Blue Gravestone
86
2
Ashes in the Wind (the Voices Rise)
88
7
Notes from the City in Which I Live: Poetry and the Political Imagination
95
22
Notes to the Poems
117