Poetry
Autumn 2006
Sublimated
Fog rising from fallen snowoverleaps the liquid state.That’s how I would like to die,raptured from gross solidity,a subject saved from predicatethe way a single contrail splitsin seven in the barely […]
Book Reviews
Winter 2001
A Local Habitation and a Name
New York City Ballet at 50 Dance for a City: Fifty Years of the New York City Ballet curated by Lynn Garafola and Eric Foner. The New York Historical Society, […]
Book Reviews
Summer 2000
Credentials
Review Halfway Down the Hall: New and Selected Poems by Rachel Hadas. Hanover and London: Wesleyan University Press/University Press of New England, 1998. xvi, 234 pages. $35; $17.95, paper. Relations: […]
Book Reviews
Spring 1998
Heard and Unheard Melodies
In Their Own Voices: A Century of Recorded Poetry. Produced by Rebekah Presson and David McLees. With essays by Erica Jong, Al Young, and Rebekah Presson. Los Angeles: Rhino/Word Beat, […]
Poetry
Spring 1996
Museum
Quick sidelong glances clodhoppers in fourth position and you know this young woman you're trying to conceal you're studying studying with you this Degas dancer dances so it's difficult not […]
Poetry
Spring 1996
Dance of the Snowflakes
I have never paid the weather enough mind, never taken the year's turnings as intimations or longings of any but my own and not some human, global or cosmic condition […]
Poetry
Spring 1996
The Rehearsal Room
In the dark rehearsal room lit only by dancers we can see her dark hair and bare back not her face. Bent fully over she adjusts her slipper. […]
Orpheus. Descending.
Winter 1996
Dazzle
For such blue this dazzle what sacrifice? None too great, none. Let liars in public trust go free? All day! Saints tear singer and soothsayer? Wives and husbands strop knives in the jealous […]
Orpheus. Descending.
Winter 1996
The Outer Banks
We walked out to watch the sun set into the sound, sinking sullen feet into the sand. The sun gleamed with a cooling flame like memory, like an apparition […]
Book Reviews
Spring 1995
Books of Revelation
Like Most Revelations: New Poems by Richard Howard. New York: Pantheon Books, 1994. A Cornelia and Michael Bessie Book. 112 pages. $20.00. The Glass Hammer: A Southern Childhood by Andrew […]
Poetry
Summer 1994
Laughter
They resolved to invite to Florence the best craftsmen in Italy to make in competition, as a trial specimen of their work, a scene in bronze. . . . For […]
Poetry
Summer 1993
The Table
The angel is in love with her. He wants to break his contract as the messenger. He wants to speak for himself. But what terror in choosing the dreck of […]
Poetry
Summer 1993
The Mirror
If marriage as a mirror of our world gives us the ardent pair, blood-red bedclothes funkily fragrant, garden-lit windows, wood clogs, a little terrier, what world does she reflect? What […]
Poetry
Summer 1993
The Light
The gold light’s created in the east trees, abrupt against trunks, lovely in the limbs looming like X-ray bones. In these rooms new light makes everything antique—the brass bed, oak […]
Poetry
Summer 1992
In the Box
A baseball knows its calculus, knows its trajectory, each inch from the pitcher’s hand, when it’s scheduled to curve, or tail away from your downtown lunge and leave you on […]
Poetry
Summer 1992
Hitting the Cutoff
Into the corner after an extra-base hit—may have lost a step but I’ll nail the guy going home from first— so I wing it and watch it sail in a gorgeous […]
Poetry
Summer 1992
Aesthetics
Invisible in her dark lectures I’d see my prof’s eyes shine like the blues in saintly Venetian pictures, but it wasn’t Survey where I fell— she wore a Yankees cap, halter […]