Poetry
Autumn 2005
From Quarantine
An attempt at truth when truth is what is most difficult to hold down the three bodies in the grass stable there as they we lose composition and become an […]
Poetry
Summer 2002
Across the River
a bull moose waits (for something) to cross the river. Finally it crosses. You want to link the moose to the pain in your chest but to compare a moose's […]
Book Reviews
Winter 2001
To Speak of Woe
Vita Nova by Louise Glück. New York: Eco Press, 1999. 51 pages. $22. Since her debut collection Firstborn (1968), Louise Glück’s poems have thrummed with tension—linguistic, psychological, emotional—the best of […]
Book Reviews
Winter 2000
The Pastoral down Under
Review Poems 1980-1994. By John Kinsella. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Bloodaxe/Dufour, 1998. 350 pages. $22.95 paper. The Hunt. By John Kinsella. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Bloodaxe/Dufour, 1998. 96 pages. $18.95 paper. In the Australian painter Sidney […]
Poetry
Mar/Apr 2016
Delivering Milk in a Bus
From the Slovenian. Sun in the reflection, I have eyes on the puppies. If you slip into the silver trash can for milk and your head conceals the lid, […]
Poetry
Mar/Apr 2016
Zeus and Hera
From the Slovenian. In antiquity the tendrils of a vine had symbolic meaning. They were the curls in Zeuss beard. Poseidon had to assemble his stool alone. He joked […]
Poetry
Mar/Apr 2016
I Want Verse Taut
From the Slovenian. I want verse taut as bamboo buffalo’s anathema, the hard planks of satan snails’ anathema, the slackness of giving in to wars worms! I want a […]