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The Kenyon Review

Read the winning piece of our 2025 Nonfiction Contest “Through the Mirror” by Jessie Cato selected by Lucy Ives.

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Winter 2001

Vol. XXIII, No. 1

Editor’s Note

Editor’s Notes

By David H. Lynn

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Fiction

Crazy

By Laura Swenson

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Two Long Lost Stories from the Soviet 1920s

By Leonid Dobychin, translated by Natalia Belova and Richard C. Borden

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Joyce’s Pupil

By Drago Janc̆ar, translated by Andrew Wachtel

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Nonfiction

Poetry

A Dream of Solstice

By Seamus Heaney

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John Luke: “The Fox”

By Paul Muldoon

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Friends on the Rocks of the Shore of the Night

By Rod Mengham

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One Thousand Blossoms

By Frank X. Gaspar

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I Go Out to Share a Smoke with the Archangel

By Frank X. Gaspar

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The Palace at 4:00 A.M.

By Debora Greger

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Amy in the Afterworld

By Debora Greger

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Carried Across

By Forrest Gander

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The Map Is of Another World

By Renée Ashley

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Mothers

By Colette Inez

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Aus Einem April

By John Koethe

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Dellius’s Boat

By John Koethe

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Life under Conditions of Uncertainty

By John Koethe

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Philosopher’s Stone

By Jorie Graham

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The Satyr’s Heart

By Brigit Kelly

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Rose of Sharon

By Brigit Kelly

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Two Boys

By Brigit Kelly

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Windfall

By Brigit Kelly

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Binocular Diplopia

By Greg Williamson

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Ballad in Fall

By Robin Behn

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Elegy for Lessons

By Robin Behn

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Birthday

By Michael Ryan

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Rooting

By Michael Ryan

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Tribute

By Michael Ryan

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Flimsy

By Michael Ryan

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Wings of the Morning

By Michael Ryan

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Wilderness & the American Mind

By Peter Sacks

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What We See Under the Stars

By Peter Sacks

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Under the Sun

By Peter Sacks

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Archaic Notions

By Phillis Levin

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Meditation on A and The

By Phillis Levin

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Reading Bashō to My Daughter

By James McCorkle

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What Is Wanted

By James McCorkle

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Epitaph

By Eric Pankey

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The Lesson of Snakes

By Eric Pankey

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Small Corpus

By Eric Pankey

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Venetian Afterthought

By Eric Pankey

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Striking the Copper Bowl to Imitate the Singing Dragon

By Eric Pankey

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In Absentia

By Eric Pankey

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Dream of Lust

By Louise Glück

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Unpainted Door

By Louise Glück

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Cranes on the Seashore

By Linda Gregerson

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Cord

By Linda Gregerson

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Magic for Houdini

By Daniel Mark Epstein

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The Cataract

By Daniel Mark Epstein

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Sleep

By Jane Hirshfield

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Poem with Two Endings

By Jane Hirshfield

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Inflection Finally Ungraspable by Grammar

By Jane Hirshfield

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Figures in Darkness

By Robley Wilson

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