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Summer 2002
Vol. XXIV No. 3/4
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Editor's Notes
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David H. Lynn
Editor’s Notes
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David H. Lynn
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Fiction
- Now That I’m Back
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Elizabeth Poliner
Unfinished Symphony -
Nyi Pu Lcay
Country Boy -
Joe Ashby Porter
Scrupulous Amédée
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Nonfiction
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Amitava Kumar
Paper -
David Wright
Writing the Real World -
Sacvan Bercovitch
Deadpan Huck, Or, What’s Funny about Interpretation -
Bia Lowe
Falling -
Jennifer Levasseur
Public Dreaming: An Interview with David Malouf -
Nicholas Howe
Fast-Food America
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Amitava Kumar
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Poetry
-
Yehuda Amichai
The Jewish Time Bomb -
Albert Goldbarth
The Splinter Groups of Breakfast -
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
Hagar to Sarai -
William Logan
Eve -
William Logan
Lake -
David Bottoms
Little Drop of Wickedness -
Deborah Digges
Telling the Bees -
Deborah Digges
Fence of Sticks -
Deborah Digges
Greeter of Souls -
Diane Ackerman
The Savant of Sunflowers, the Apprentice of Roses -
Carol Frost
Driftwood -
Carol Frost
Gull -
Lisa Russ Spaar
The Insomnia of Murasaki Shikibu -
Elizabeth Smither
Pieces of Eight -
Elizabeth Smither
Variation on Bashō’s Snow Party -
Elizabeth Smither
Late Summer Dew -
Eva Salzman
Professor -
Mông-Lan
why is the edge always windy? -
Hédi Kaddour
The Music Room -
Hédi Kaddour
The Waterfall -
Hédi Kaddour
Truth -
Hédi Kaddour
The Doctor -
Kathleen Ossip
The Pleasure of Your Company -
Kathleen Ossip
The Flat Tire -
D. Nurkse
Spring at Black River -
D. Nurkse
Home -
D. Nurkse
Cat’s-Eye -
C. Dale Young
Infidelity -
Dean Young
My People -
Dean Young
Republican Victory -
V. Penelope Pelizzon
Where the Arrows Fell -
Carl Phillips
As a Blow, from the West -
Stanley Plumly
Cold Pastoral -
Stanley Plumly
Bill’s Hangover -
Alison Stine
When I Taught Mary to Eat Avocado -
Alison Stine
Otto Bar -
Sandra Meek
Reentering Atmosphere -
Sarah Lindsay
Morning on Despina -
Sarah Lindsay
Neoteny -
Brooks Haxton
As Far as I Could Tell -
Brian Henry
Across the River
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Yehuda Amichai
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Review
-
Michael Thurston
A Way to Frame the Truth
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Michael Thurston
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Spring 2002
Vol. XXIV No. 2
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Editor's Notes
-
David H. Lynn
Editor’s Notes
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David H. Lynn
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Fiction
-
Edwin Steckevicz
Making the Weight -
Nancy Ludmerer
The Ham Theory -
Kellie Wells
Secession, XX -
Arnošt Lustig
From “Tanga, a Girl from Hamburg” -
Nic Kelman
From “Girls” -
Scott Kenemore
The Lizard Boy -
Joe Ashby Porter
A Man Wanted to Buy a Cat -
David Czuchlewski
The Theory of Everything
-
Edwin Steckevicz
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Nonfiction
-
Theodore B. Leinwand
On Sitting down to Read Shakespeare Once Again
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Theodore B. Leinwand
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Poetry
-
John Hollander
A Rainbow for Lunch -
Diane di Prima
Three Poems in the Chinese Manner -
Nick Flynn
Twinned -
Nick Flynn
Workers (foragers) -
Nick Flynn
Queen -
Quan Barry
Porte des Morts as Neutrino -
Quan Barry
Crossing the South China Sea as Analgesia -
Quan Barry
Butterfly -
Robert Wrigley
Clemency -
Rebecca W. Warren
Blue Lotus -
James Hoch
Riding Backwards on a Train -
Kimiko Hahn
Like Lavrinia -
Kimiko Hahn
Figures -
Les Murray
The Annals of Sheer -
Les Murray
The Tin Clothes -
Les Murray
Pop Music -
Roger Fanning
The Cat with Rabies at the Grave of Keats -
Roger Fanning
Beside Himself
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John Hollander
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Review
-
David Baker
Story’s Stories
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David Baker
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Winter 2002
Vol. XXIV No. 1
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Editor's Notes
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David H. Lynn
Editor’s Notes
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David H. Lynn
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New Voices
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Shelley Jackson
Fat -
Robert Coover
Body Games
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Shelley Jackson
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Fiction
-
Robert Arellano
One out of Many -
John Kinsella
The Well -
John Kinsella
The Diviners -
Joyce Carol Oates
Madison at Guignol -
Brenda Walker
Mrs. Holland -
George Steiner
At Five in the Afternoon -
Gary Gildner
Come Sta? Come Va? -
Mathew Chacko
Broadcasts from the Flood
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Robert Arellano
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Drama
-
Anne Carson
The Mirror of Simple Souls
-
Anne Carson
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Poetry
-
W. S. Merwin
Before Morning -
W. S. Merwin
Under the Day -
Campbell McGrath
The Zebra Longwing -
Wesley McNair
Town Limits -
Linda Gregg
Who Wants It or Not -
Linda Gregg
Surviving Love -
Linda Gregg
Silence and Glare -
Linda Gregg
The Creature -
Charles Wright
Miss December -
Betsy Sholl
Late Psalm -
William Heyen
The Annunciation -
William Heyen
Roof -
William Heyen
Auschwitz Reich Disfigured Haiku Sequence -
Harriet Levin
Andromeda -
Harriet Levin
The Rape Garden -
Lynne McMahon
Depression Vacation -
Lynne McMahon
Smoketree -
Ellen Bryant Voigt
Apple Tree -
Ted Kooser
Sixty-First Birthday -
Ted Kooser
Praying Hands -
Ted Kooser
Walking on Tiptoe -
Gary Gildner
A New Song -
Gary Gildner
In Pioneer Park (Later) -
Timothy Liu
A Sunday Drive -
Timothy Liu
Nor’easter Forty Miles Offshore -
Ira Sadoff
What Kind of Man -
Ira Sadoff
Jazz -
Leon Stokesbury
Listening to My Mother’s Comic Banter with Sackboys and Servers
-
W. S. Merwin
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Reviews
-
Howell Chickering
Beowulf and ‘Heaneywulf’ -
Regenia Gagnier
Oxford Occidentalism, or the Idea of America -
Joanna Klink
To Feel an Idea
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Howell Chickering
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Summer 2001
Vol. XXIII No. 3/4
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Editor's Note
-
David H. Lynn
Editor’s Notes
-
David H. Lynn
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New Voices
-
Beth Ann Fennelly
From “L’Hôtel Terminus Notebooks” -
Robert Hass
Losing Mr. Daylater: A Note on Beth Ann Fennelly
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Beth Ann Fennelly
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Fiction
-
Claudia MonPere
What the Sky Delivers -
Steven Boyd Saum
Good Night, Mr. Khrushchev -
Maxim D. Shrayer
The Afterlove
-
Claudia MonPere
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Nonfiction
-
Poetry
-
Bruce Beasley
The Vanishing Point -
Chard de Niord
Crow -
D. Nurkse
Northbound -
Medbh McGuckian
Ramoan Parish Bulletin -
Medbh McGuckian
The Flower of Tullahogue -
Medbh McGuckian
Scotch Argus on Jerusalem Sage -
Medbh McGuckian
Mourning Engagement Ring -
Andrew Hudgins
A Flag of Honeysuckle -
Andrew Hudgins
They Must Be Poetry -
Agha Shahid Ali
Summers of Translation -
Dorothy Barresi
Glass Dress -
Dorothy Barresi
Body Says -
David Bottoms
Homage to Buck Cline -
Lu Xixi
Four Women Poets From Contemporary China: Aerobics -
Liu Zhen
Four Women Poets From Contemporary China: Abortion -
Jia Wei
Four Women Poets From Contemporary China: Husk an Ear of Corn -
Lu Ye
Four Women Poets From Contemporary China: Two Women Talking about French Perfume -
Zbigniew Herbert
In a City -
Zbigniew Herbert
The High Castle -
Zbigniew Herbert
Tenderness -
Margaret Gibson
Deep Water -
Sherod Santos
The Monument -
Sherod Santos
The Book of Blessings -
Sherod Santos
A Valley in the Shadow of North Hollywood -
Rabindra K. Swain
They Fall -
Clare Rossini
Brief History of a Sentence
-
Bruce Beasley
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Reviews
-
Andrew Frisardi
Essays at Midnight -
Mark Jarman
The Body on Fire, the Soul in Flight -
Carol Muske-Dukes
Out of the Cradle, Violently Rocking: The New Young Poets
-
Andrew Frisardi
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Spring 2001
Vol. XXIII No. 2
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Editors' Note
-
Michael Hulse
Editors’ Notes
-
Michael Hulse
-
Cultures of Creativity: The Centennial Celebration of the Nobel Prizes
-
Rabindranath Tagore
Sickbed 5 -
Rabindranath Tagore
Sickbed 7 -
Rabindranath Tagore
Birthday 8 -
Rabindranath Tagore
Recovery 30 -
Rabindranath Tagore
Last Poems 2 -
Rabindranath Tagore
Last Poems 4 -
Wendy Singer
‘Endless Dawns’ of Imagination -
Michael S. Harper
Tagore (Nobel, 1913) -
Robert Friedel
Serendipity Is No Accident -
Seamus Heaney
Castalian Spring -
Seamus Heaney
Desfina: An Chailleach Feasa -
Patrick White
The Age of a Wart* -
Charles Lock
Patrick White: Writing Towards Silence -
Wislawa Szymborska
Reality Requires -
Wislawa Szymborska
Atlantis -
Wislawa Szymborska
Cat in an Empty Apartment -
Wislawa Szymborska
Three Words Most Strange -
Wislawa Szymborska
The Silence of Plants -
Wislawa Szymborska
Conversation with a Stone -
Wendy Singer
Pure Science: Marie Curie and the American Gift -
François Jacob
Imagination in Art and in Science -
Naguib Mahfouz
A Voice from the Other World* -
Raymond Stock
Naguib Mahfouz: A Translator’s View -
Pablo Neruda
Dead Gallop -
Pablo Neruda
The Widower’s Tango -
Antony Hewish
Prelude to Discovery -
Amitav Ghosh
54 University Avenue, Yangon -
William Butler Yeats
Acceptance Speech* -
Dennis Haskell
W. B. Yeats -
T. J. Cribb
Walcott, Poet and Painter -
Joseph Brodsky
Form in Poetry: Joseph Brodsky and Derek Walcott in a conversation with Bengt Jangfeldt -
Michael S. Harper
On Brodsky’s Collected -
Herbert A. Simon
Creativity in the Arts and the Sciences -
Roald Hoffmann
From Oxygen: A Play in Two Acts -
Robert Hass
To Robert Lowell -
Robert Hass
Prescription -
Mary Beard
Down among the Women (Nobel Laureates) -
Samuel Beckett
Antipepsis* -
Robert Coover
Dying Fathers: ‘Stirrings Still’ -
Marika Hedin
Transmitting the Intangible: Thoughts on a Future Nobel Museum -
Editors
Nobel Prize Awards
-
Rabindranath Tagore
-
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Winter 2001
Vol. XXIII No. 1
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Editor's Note
-
David H. Lynn
Editor’s Notes
-
David H. Lynn
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Fiction
-
Laura Swenson
Crazy -
Leonid Dobychin
Two Long Lost Stories from the Soviet 1920s -
Drago Janc̆ar
Joyce’s Pupil
-
Laura Swenson
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Nonfiction
-
Jennifer Levasseur
From Experience to Innocence: An Interview with William H. Gass -
Linda Gregerson
The Sower Against Gardens
-
Jennifer Levasseur
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Poetry
-
Seamus Heaney
A Dream of Solstice -
Paul Muldoon
John Luke: “The Fox” -
Rod Mengham
Friends on the Rocks of the Shore of the Night -
Frank X. Gaspar
One Thousand Blossoms -
Frank X. Gaspar
I Go Out to Share a Smoke with the Archangel -
Debora Greger
The Palace at 4:00 A.M. -
Debora Greger
Amy in the Afterworld -
Forrest Gander
Carried Across -
Renée Ashley
The Map Is of Another World -
Colette Inez
Mothers -
John Koethe
Aus Einem April -
John Koethe
Dellius’s Boat -
John Koethe
Life under Conditions of Uncertainty -
Jorie Graham
Philosopher’s Stone -
Brigit Kelly
The Satyr’s Heart -
Brigit Kelly
Rose of Sharon -
Brigit Kelly
Two Boys -
Brigit Kelly
Windfall -
Greg Williamson
Binocular Diplopia -
Robin Behn
Ballad in Fall -
Robin Behn
Elegy for Lessons -
Michael Ryan
Birthday -
Michael Ryan
Rooting -
Michael Ryan
Tribute -
Michael Ryan
Flimsy -
Michael Ryan
Wings of the Morning -
Peter Sacks
Wilderness & the American Mind -
Peter Sacks
What We See Under the Stars -
Peter Sacks
Under the Sun -
Phillis Levin
Archaic Notions -
Phillis Levin
Meditation on A and The -
James McCorkle
Reading Bashō to My Daughter -
James McCorkle
What Is Wanted -
Eric Pankey
Epitaph -
Eric Pankey
The Lesson of Snakes -
Eric Pankey
Small Corpus -
Eric Pankey
Venetian Afterthought -
Eric Pankey
Striking the Copper Bowl to Imitate the Singing Dragon -
Eric Pankey
In Absentia -
Louise Glück
Dream of Lust -
Louise Glück
Unpainted Door -
Linda Gregerson
Cranes on the Seashore -
Linda Gregerson
Cord -
Daniel Mark Epstein
Magic for Houdini -
Daniel Mark Epstein
The Cataract -
Jane Hirshfield
Sleep -
Jane Hirshfield
Poem with Two Endings -
Jane Hirshfield
Inflection Finally Ungraspable by Grammar -
Robley Wilson
Figures in Darkness
-
Seamus Heaney
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Reviews
-
Jay Rogoff
A Local Habitation and a Name -
Brian Henry
To Speak of Woe -
Michelle Boisseau
The Industry of Emily Dickinson -
Myles Weber
Seeking a Post-Ibsenian Playwright
-
Jay Rogoff
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Summer 2000
Vol. XXII No. 3/4
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Editor's Notes
-
David H. Lynn
Editor’s Notes
-
David H. Lynn
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Fiction
-
Anesa Miller
These Things Happen -
Michael Dahlie
The Begging Chair -
Yvonne A. Jackson
Style -
Elizabeth Denton
To Die For -
Corinne Demas
In Memory of a Lovely Afternoon
-
Anesa Miller
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Nonfiction
-
Michael Wood
Broken Dates: Fiction and the Century
-
Michael Wood
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Poetry
-
Carl Phillips
The Pinnacle -
Carl Phillips
Recumbent -
Carl Phillips
Regalia Figure -
Carl Phillips
Caravan -
Natasha Sajé
Reading Henry Fowler’s “Modern English Usage” in Salt Lake City in November -
Natasha Sajé
Bend -
Boyer Rickel
Nude Beach -
Donald Platt
Contact Points -
Claire Malroux
Saint-Lieux: The Stream near the Village -
Claire Malroux
Summers before the War -
John Ashbery
Befuddled -
John Ashbery
Variations on ‘La Folia’ -
John Engels
Adam Imagines Moving -
Robert Bly
The Wagon and the Cliff -
Stanley Plumly
Comment on Thom Gunn’s ‘In Santa Maria Del Popolo’ concerning Caravaggio’s “The Conversion of St. Paul” -
Stanley Plumly
In the Old Jewish Cemetery in Prague -
Maudelle Driskell
The Propaganda of Memory -
Thomas Lux
The Magma Chamber -
Thomas Lux
A Library of Skulls -
Len Roberts
Flicking the Switch -
Linda Pastan
The Crossing -
Charlie Smith
Heroin -
Charlie Smith
Kicking -
László Király
Anabasis -
Árpád Farkas
Our Reserves -
Judith Moffett
Decade-Birthday Verses for James Merrill -
Mary Jo Bang
Travel Is Easy by Train -
Mary Jo Bang
Kiss, Kiss, Said Louise by Way of a Pay Phone -
Mary Jo Bang
Does Mrs. Hunt Tear Linen Straight as Ever? -
Nuar Alsadir
Bats -
Nuar Alsadir
Deposit -
Nuar Alsadir
The Garden -
Nuar Alsadir
Aperture -
Wesley McNair
Driving North in Winter -
Khaled Mattawa
from Echoes & Elixirs -
Mordechai Geldman
Abused Neighbor -
Mark Scott
Every Drift -
Robert Gibb
Pictures at an Exhibition: Pittsburgh Revealed/Photographs since 1850 -
Robert Gibb
Pittsburghesque, CA. 1949 -
William Logan
Ca d’Oro -
William Logan
Open Day at the Natural History Museum -
R. T. Smith
Downy -
K.E. Allen
Cicadas -
K.E. Allen
O’Dowd’s Fields -
Roberta Swann
Windfall -
Kevin Stein
Confessional -
Michael Van Walleghen
The Ex -
Jeffrey Skinner
Prodigal
-
Carl Phillips
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Reviews
-
Michael Thurston
The Substance of the Island: W. S. Merwin’s Lyrical Epic -
Jay Rogoff
Credentials -
Andrew Zawacki
The Mirror Has No Depth -
David Bergman
Marketing Poetry -
Theodore O. Mason
The Powers and Pleasures of This Language
-
Michael Thurston
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Spring 2000
Vol. XXII No. 2
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Editor's Notes
-
D. H. L.
Editor’s Notes
-
D. H. L.
-
New Voices
-
Larissa Szporluk
Faire Faire -
Larissa Szporluk
Amusia -
Larissa Szporluk
Eidola -
Larissa Szporluk
Leaving the Eccentric -
Larissa Szporluk
Trapeze -
Larissa Szporluk
Homogeny
-
Larissa Szporluk
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Commentary
-
Alice Fulton
Incarnational Verse
-
Alice Fulton
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Fiction
-
Rick Bass
The Fireman -
Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin
Caucasus -
Leah Stewart
Monopoly -
Joseph M. Schuster
Limousine
-
Rick Bass
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Nonfiction
-
Poetry
-
Grace Schulman
Black and White -
Grace Schulman
Carnegie Hill Birdlore -
Andrew Frisardi
Phenomena -
George Looney
The Sleep of Wood in the Houses of Wrens -
Cathy Song
The Girl Can Run -
Ralph Sneeden
Two Weasels -
Saadi Youssef
The Collapse of the Two-Rivers Hotel -
Saadi Youssef
Noontime -
Adrian C. Louis
High Plains Weather Report: Elements of Madness in the Air -
Margaret Rabb
To Autumn -
Nance Van Winckel
These Days -
Nance Van Winckel
Celsius -
Carol Frost
After Grave Illness -
Carol Frost
Red Pond -
Carol Frost
Marsyas’ Art -
Carol Frost
Procedure -
Kimiko Hahn
Vivisection -
Ann Fisher-Wirth
Open like a Rose -
Amudha Rajendran
Parturition -
Robert Cording
Against Consolation -
Robert Cording
In My Study -
Marianne Boruch
Piano Tuning -
Jayanta Mahapatra
Traveler -
Stuart Lishan
April and the New Physics -
Timothy Liu
For a New Century -
Arthur Sze
Before Sunrise -
Arthur Sze
Lobed Bowl with Black Glaze and White Scalloped Rim -
Mark Smith-Soto
Tomorrow, Yesterday -
David Kirby
Dear Derrida -
Mark Halliday
Bob Evans Mood -
Mark Halliday
Downstairs -
Ross Martin
Reading Bibles in Tennessee -
Ross Martin
It Is Late but Not Too -
Laura Kasischke
Clown -
Michael Collier
My Crucifixion -
Michael Collier
The Choice -
Rachel Hadas
Déjà Vu
-
Grace Schulman
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Reviews
-
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Winter 2000
Vol. XXII No. 1
-
Editor's Notes
-
D. H. L.
Editor’s Notes
-
D. H. L.
-
Celebration of Robert Lowell
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David H. Lynn
Welcome: Celebration of Robert Lowell -
Frank Bidart
You Didn’t Write, You Rewrote -
Helen Vendler
Lowell’s Persistence: The Forms Depression Makes -
Frank Bidart
Panel: Lowell on the Page -
Robert Dana
Writing like a House on Fire: The Evolution of Robert Lowell’s Language -
Robert Giroux
Panel: Lowell off the Page -
Richard Tillinghast
Quincy House and the White House
-
David H. Lynn
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Fiction
-
Bill Broun
Why Are You Still Here? -
Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin
Raven -
Christine Schutt
The Human Season -
Sharon Dilworth
The Empty Beach -
Edith Pearlman
Fitting -
Brenda Williams
Mercy
-
Bill Broun
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Nonfiction
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Poetry
-
T. R. Hummer
Encoded Dithyramb -
T. R. Hummer
Antimetrical Lyric of the San Joachin -
T. R. Hummer
Soft Money: 10/31/97 -
T. R. Hummer
Mimesis -
Beth Gylys
No News Here -
Egito Gonçalves
News from the Blockade -
W. S. Merwin
Overtone -
W. S. Merwin
Transit -
W. S. Merwin
South of Names -
Steve Orlen
Cruelty -
Sándor Csoóri
Morning Awakening -
Ha Jin
On Issuing a Residential Certificate -
Ha Jin
A Mission -
Bruce Weigl
The Nothing Redemption -
Debora Greger
On the Oregon Trail -
Debora Greger
Venice Despoiled by Time -
Edward Nobles
Through a Drop of Rain -
Edward Nobles
Fissure -
David Wojahn
Kill Born, Weed Smoke, Chk Mark, Onchola Senn -
David Wojahn
Cartouche -
Albert Goldbarth
January 31, 1998 -
John Kinsella
The Road to Brookton: On the Nature of Memory -
Peter Schmitt
The Bench -
Laurence Lieberman
Flight from the Mother Stone -
Li-Young Lee
The Hammock -
Li-Young Lee
Hurry toward Beginning -
Li-Young Lee
One Heart -
Li-Young Lee
The Moon from Any Window -
Barbara Jordan
Question and Answer -
Barbara Jordan
Zen Painting -
Barbara Jordan
Crystal Blue Persuasion -
Barbara Jordan
Forbidden Poem -
Gray Jacobik
Etymology -
Daniel Halpern
The Eternal Light of Talk -
Daniel Halpern
Carnival Food -
Daniel Halpern
Carnival Mood -
Stuart Dischell
The Lost City -
Stuart Dischell
Children of the City
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T. R. Hummer
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Reviews
-
Brian Henry
The Pastoral down Under
-
Brian Henry
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Summer/Fall 1999
Vol. XXI No. 3/4
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Editor's Notes
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D. H. L.
Editor’s Notes
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D. H. L.
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New Voices
-
David Baker
Audition: On Alison Stine -
Alison Stine
Lot of My Sister -
Alison Stine
The Wig -
Alison Stine
Blood Music -
Alison Stine
Vincent’s Ear
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David Baker
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Fiction
-
Maija Rhee Devine
Crane’s Grace -
Keith Banner
The One I Remember -
Emil A. Draitser
Zugzwang -
Beth Bosworth
The Year the World Turned -
Daniel Kharms
Five Short Prose Pieces -
Nancy Reisman
Dreaming of the Snail Life
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Maija Rhee Devine
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Nonfiction
-
Hubert H. McAlexander
Peter Taylor: The Undergraduate Years at Kenyon -
Robert Protherough
Is Culture an Industry? -
Ellen Bryant Voigt
The Flexible Lyric
-
Hubert H. McAlexander
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Drama
-
James Hatch
Up’s down and All: A Dirge in One Act
-
James Hatch
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Poetry
-
Derick Burleson
Good Customs -
Derick Burleson
Umugabo Mukaga -
Stephen Dunn
The Sexual Revolution -
Stephen Dunn
Before the Sky Darkens -
Nicholas Samaras
No Countries but the Distance of the World -
Robert Dana
Summer -
Antler
Prove to Me -
Karl Kirchwey
The Brazen Hand -
Karl Kirchwey
The Quincunx -
Lee Upton
Rehearsals -
Mông-Lan
Ravine -
Mông-Lan
Grotto -
Mông-Lan
Field -
Erin Belieu
At St. Sulpice -
Erin Belieu
Chest for Arrows -
Katharine Whitcomb
The Grievous Angel -
Katharine Whitcomb
Who Do You Love? -
Sydney Lea
Conspiracy Theory -
Marvin Bell
Sounds of the Resurrected Dead Man’s Footsteps #19 -
Marvin Bell
Sounds of the Resurrected Dead Man’s Footsteps #24 -
Mark Jarman
Unholy Sonnets -
V. Penelope Pelizzon
The Feast of San Silvestro -
C. Cavafy
Awaiting the Barbarians -
David Wagoner
Telling What Happened -
David Wagoner
The Teal’s Wing -
Ruth Stone
The Word Though as a Coupler -
Ruth Stone
This Space
-
Derick Burleson
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Reviews
-
Willard Spiegelman
How Poetry Works -
Thomas S. Turgeon
The Need to Know
-
Willard Spiegelman
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Spring 1999
Vol. XXI No. 2
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Editor's Notes
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D. H. L.
Editor’s Notes
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D. H. L.
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Fiction
-
Nancy Zafris
Stealing the Llama Farm -
Kai Maristed
The Mercenary’s Song -
Mario Benedetti
From La Muerte Y Otras Sorpresas: Cuentos -
Arnošt Lustig
Kůstka
-
Nancy Zafris
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Nonfiction
-
Poetry
-
Philip Levine
And That Night Clifford Died -
Philip Levine
The Three Crows -
Philip Levine
If You Are Here -
Philip Levine
They Feed They Lion -
Philip Levine
What Work Is -
David St. John
Accomplishment -
David St. John
Portrait -
David St. John
The Bowl -
David St. John
What He Said -
David St. John
Adam -
Dante Alighieri
Purgatory X -
Jaufre Rudel
Vers -
Bob Hicok
How Origami Was Invented -
Bob Hicok
What Fine Kindling the Homeless Make -
Mary Ann Samyn
Moving Away from an Event -
Mary Ann Samyn
A Short History of Anxiety -
Conrad Hilberry
The Good Grief -
Erin Grace Brooks
Badlands -
Jo McDougall
What We Need -
Marilyn Horton-Barrios
In the Madhouse -
Daniel Anderson
The Wasp That’s Lately Died -
Eamon Grennan
To Grasp the Nettle -
Eamon Grennan
Shock Waves -
Reetika Vazirani
Dream of the Evil Servant -
Miller Williams
The Geography of Time -
Miller Williams
Waking from a Dream
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Philip Levine
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Reviews
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Kim McMullen
Imagining Ireland: R. F. Foster’s “W. B. Yeats: A Life” and the ‘New’ Irish Renaissance -
Patricia Vigderman
Almost No Center
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Kim McMullen
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Kenyon Review Classic
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Kevin Young
Responsible Delight: Revaluation: John Berryman -
John Berryman
Letter to His Brother -
John Berryman
Nineteen Thirty-Eight -
John Berryman
Rock-Study with Wanderer
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Kevin Young
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Winter 1999
Vol. XXI No. 1
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Editor's Notes
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D. H. L.
Editor’s Notes
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D. H. L.
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Fiction
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Thomas Glave
The Pit -
Edie Meidav
Into the House of Desire: A Ceylonese Riddle in Fourteen Parts
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Thomas Glave
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Essays
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Geeta Kothari
If You Are What You Eat, Then What Am I? -
Alison Booth
The Mother of All Cultures: Camille Paglia and Feminist Mythologies -
Ronald A. Sharp
Keats and Friendship
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Geeta Kothari
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Translations
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George Seferis
“Quid Πλατανὼν Opacissimus?” -
Zbigniew Herbert
Home -
Zbigniew Herbert
The Wolf and the Sheep -
Zbigniew Herbert
Clock -
Zbigniew Herbert
A Suicide -
Ruby Rahman
To You, Rabindranath -
Ruby Rahman
Left Behind
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George Seferis
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Poetry
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Lucia Perillo
Short Course in Semiotics -
Lucia Perillo
The Odds -
Virgil Suárez
Arroz -
Rabindra K. Swain
Sons and Fathers -
Kelly Cherry
The Model Looks at Her Portrait: A Retrospective -
Kelly Cherry
Rising Venus -
Kelly Cherry
Learning to Live with Stone -
Sharon Dolin
Life Is Not What You -
D. Nurkse
The Swiftness with Which Those Cities Fell -
D. Nurkse
Rooms by the Night or Hour -
Robin Behn
Still Life -
Robin Behn
Whether or Not There Are Apples -
Frank X. Gaspar
Field Guide to the Heavens -
Frank X. Gaspar
The Tree -
Susan Hahn
Guardian -
Anthony Walton
Celestial Mechanics -
Anthony Walton
Soren Kierkegaard Writes to Regine Olsen on the Day of Her Marriage to Fritz Schlegel -
Anthony Walton
Hackensack -
Anthony Walton
Snowblind: Threnody for Glenn Gould and Thelonious Monk -
Anthony Walton
A Sonnet for the Working Class -
Anthony Walton
Gothic -
Susan Wood
Leafing -
Stephen Sandy
Late Cretaceous Reverie -
Liz Rosenberg
Sunburn -
Liz Rosenberg
The Unmentionable -
Liz Rosenberg
Desire -
Jim Daniels
Shedding the Vestments -
Jeffrey Harrison
Horseshoe Contest -
Jeffrey Harrison
Renewing My Passport -
Marc J. Straus
Horseshoes -
Marc J. Straus
A Half Billion: More or Less -
Sandra McPherson
The Life Concise -
Sandra McPherson
Jeffrey Dahmer’s Boots -
Sandra McPherson
My Daughter Visits Me at High Camp, Placer County, on My Fifty-Second Birthday -
Reginald Shepherd
Another Unclassical Eclogue -
Reginald Shepherd
Solstice as Demon Lover -
Meg Tyler
The Good-Bye -
Meg Tyler
Emissary -
Meg Tyler
Impiety -
Steven Sherrill
Manifesto -
Steven Sherrill
What They Know about Love -
Irene McKinney
Fame -
Irene McKinney
The Surgery -
Wayne Koestenbaum
Metamorphoses (Excerpts) -
Mary Jo Salter
Distance -
Mary Jo Salter
Up and Down
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Lucia Perillo
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Review
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Willard Spiegelman
What to Make of an Augmented Thing
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Willard Spiegelman
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Kenyon Review New Voices
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David Bergman
Introduction: Banner Year -
Keith Banner
The Smallest People Alive
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David Bergman
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