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SOLITON

This is Roald's fourth poetry collection, published by Truman State University Press in 2002.  The book is out-of-print, but available on the usual used book sites. The full text is reproduced in a PDF file "SOLITON complete text" below. Also provided is a file with Table of Contents of book.

       The book contained a number of poems published in journals before, but roughly half of the poems in the book were not yet published at the time. These (the ones published only in book) are listed below, and separate downloadable files attached:

SHALL YOU DANCE?

IMITATION OF THE MOTHERS

FOR EVERY THING THERE IS A TIME

RAISINS FOR BEING

OAK LAND IN WINTER

BLACK BUT COMELY

PROOFS OF THE EXISTENCE OF GOD. I. THE WATCHMAKER ARGUMENT

MAYA-SPECTRA

LE CHATELIER’S PRINCIPLE

OF  THE  LAND

PLANCK WAS A GOOD MAN

FALL FOLLIES

THE ZOHAR OF AGING

POLHEIM, DEC. 17, 1911                                                     

THIS-AND-NO-OTHER-NESS

HOMECOMING

COMMUNICATION PROBLEMS