Poetry
Summer 1988
In Irishtown
He is taking her to task On the front porch, their quarrel Traveling the sidewalk. Embarrassed by his reddened Cheeks, his trembling jowls, His whining accusations, I make myself their […]
Poetry
Summer 1988
No Parking
For Paul Strong When I watched his daughter Turn from her father, Taking his tight smile With her as she went, I heard, among the slams Of car doors, something […]
Nonfiction
Winter 1987
The Pressed Melodeon
Ten years ago Seamus Heaney read his poems at a poetry festival in Cambridge, England. His audience was largely British, but it also included Robert Duncan, Robert Creeley, Fielding Dawson, […]
Poetry
Winter 1986
Clearing
Where the road turned, we found a placeto rest. No one made demandsor called our names. We heard ourselvesspeaking and answering; we listenedtwice to every sound we heard. It was […]
Poetry
Winter 1986
Near
They keep their distance on the sidewalk,those strangers no one sees againand no one calls. Their eyes awaken messengers in the spine. Their turns,quick steps—their momentary frowns—call up a stranger […]
Poetry
Winter 1986
Remembering the Names
Davenport. Dubuque. Sabula.Their long syllables might be boxcarsrumbling at night along the river,their doors half-open, headed elsewhere. The elder names have lost their voices.In dreams, they drift through open windows,cheerless […]
Poetry
Winter 1986
A Thing Forgotten
What we had known about has goneinto hiding—or maybe into a fieldbeyond us. We find its tracks in snow,its litter and scats. It never belongedto us, though we gave it […]
Book Reviews
Winter 1985
Erotic, Ghostly Atmospheres
The Apple-Broadcast and Other Poems by Peter Redgrove. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1984. 133 pages. $9.50, paper. To the grim historicity of post-War British verse, Peter Redgrove brings a […]