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July/Aug 2017 • Vol. XXXIX No. 4 • Poetry |

In This Language, in War’s Revolutions

In this language, in war’s revolutions, voice
in the U-2 spy plane, in the stratosphere;

and, here, pilotless Predators firing Hellfire
missiles, secret surveillance installation, Langley

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Lawrence Joseph is the author of five books of poetry, most recently Into It and Codes, Precepts, Biases, and Taboos: Poems 1973–1993, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. His sixth book of poems, So Where Are We?, is forthcoming from FSG in August 2017. He is also the author of two books of prose, Lawyerland (FSG) and The Game Changed: Essays and Other Prose, published by the University of Michigan Press in its Poets on Poetry Series. He is Tinnelly Professor of Law at St. John’s University School of Law and lives in New York City.

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Of What We Know Now

By Lawrence Joseph

And that February cloudless night, deep, now, in itsown reflection, golden full moons dark blue penumbra;and ice sheets collapsing causing earthquakes, rattling seismographs thousands of miles away, mountain-fire smoke, wind-driven […]

History for Another Time

By Lawrence Joseph

It was, of course,impossible to have predicted the economiccycle had peaked, perhaps the most . . .what’s the word? remarkable?—perhaps the most remarkable periodin the history of capitalism. A little […]

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