Poetry
Summer 1995
Work Song
—Ireland, they say, has the honour of being the only country which never persecuted the Jews. And do you know why? … —Why, sir? Stephen asked, beginning to smile. —Because […]
Poetry
Autumn 1992
Story
I can still see us stopped for a smoke on a September stoop on Jane Street. You’d left your husband of ten years for me. There. I’ve said it. One […]
Poetry
Autumn 1992
New Language This Meaning
Day: an open palm. Morning: a nut cupped in a fist. Overgrown grass throws shadows, like days in a row, across the square lawn. Days are numbered here in this […]
Book Reviews
Spring 1992
Everything Has Its Place
Not Me by Eileen Myles. New York: Semiotext(e), 1991. 202 pages. $6.00. Fear of Subways by Maureen Seaton. Portland, Ore.: Eighth Mountain Press, 1991. 94 pages. $9.95. Ode to Anna […]
Poetry
Autumn 1994
For the Field
From the seven small windows of my room: the last of the maple’s stars have fallen. There are new browns to see, ochers and grays. The rain on the leaves, […]
Book Reviews
Spring 1994
The New Shape-Changers
Cultivating Excess by Lori Anderson. Portland: Eighth Mountain Press, 1992. 110 pages. $9.95, paper. The Rapture of Matter by Frankie Paino. Cleveland: Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 1991. 61 pages. […]