Poetry
Spring 2003
A Pair of Tanagers
The scarlet male, his green mate, their black wings Beside the AC unit in the dull dirt: They look at first like a child’s abandoned toys. But ants and iridescent […]
Book Reviews
Summer 2001
The Body on Fire, the Soul in Flight
The Complete Poems of Michelangelo translated by John Frederick Nims. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. 185 pp. $25 hardcover. The Poems of St. John of the Cross translated by […]
Poetry
Summer/Fall 1999
Unholy Sonnets
Someone is always praying as the plane Breaks up, and smoke and cold and darkness blow Into the cabin. Praying as it happens, Praying before it happens that it won’t. […]