TABLE OF CONTENTS
Selected Online SamplesPOEMS
James Tate "Hotel of the Golden Dawn"
Alison Stone "I'll Start You with an Image"
TRANSLATIONS
FEATURE
Cynthia Hogue The Tao of Disease
Complete Table of Contents
Poems
Eamon Grennan
One Saturday 2
Brother Mole 3
Geraldine Connolly
Weddings 4
Ecstasy 5
James Tate
Wondrous Object 6
Our Lady of the Shivers 6
Hotel of the Golden Dawn 7
Susan Wheeler
Airport 8
W.S. Di Piero
Aisle Seat Soliloquy 9
Malocchio 10
At Mission San Javier 11
Jan Lee Ande
The Black Arts 12
What Are You Doing Here, GarcÕa Lorca? 13
Philip Dacey
Susan Eakins: Posing With Billy 14
Painting Eakins 15
Marge Piercy
Ways through 18
In second growth woods 19
Michael Teig
Abstract with Memories 20
Commencement 21
In This Kingdom 22
Maria Terrone
Saving Doge Foscari 23
Alison Stone
The Night Parade 24
Prom Night 26
I'll Start You with an Image 27
Greg Glazner
>from Zeno's Cure 28
Maurya Simon
Sex 30
Daughters 30
James Doyle
The Dead Love Everything 31
Sarah Maclay
Winter 32
Still Life 32
David Mura
The Prosecution 33
Otis Rubottom
My Favorite Hopper Woman 34
David Hernandez
Museum Guard 35
Lisa 36
Reading Anne Sexton while Eating Watermelon 37
Holly Prado
Barnsdall Park / Chamber Music Twenty Years Ago 38
John Allman
Omisalj 39
Gerald Locklin
green corn tamales 40
Suzanne Lummis
Pink 41
Ken Waldman
Parsonage 43
The Gluepot 44
Bonnie Minick
Sometimes 45
Raspberries 47
Conversations Started at a Rest Stop 48
Jeffrey Levine
My Mother's Spine 50
Morton Marcus
Heart Attack 52
Errol Miller
About Writing 53
Tom Speer
At the Poetry Workshop 55
Paul Batista
Great Ambitions and Extravagant Dreams 56
Mark Farrell
"he got me out of the rain" 57
Jean Janzen
Another World 59
Tasting the Dust 60
Albert Goldbarth
The Alliance 61
Smears and Shimmers 63
D_L_'s 64
Children / Expediencies 66
Robert Arroyo, Jr.
Closure 68
Translations
Günter Kunert 70 Gerald Chapple, translator
Late Show 71
Allegory 71
Beauty's Consequences 72
Forgetfulness 73
Encounter 74
Sandor Csori 75 Len Roberts and Maria Szende, translators
Flying Above Thirty Thousand Feet 76
Hsia Yu 77 Steve Bradbury, translator
Written for Others 78
Alberto Blanco 79 Gus Segade, translator
Theories: Theory of gravity 80
Theory of relativity 81
Theory of light 82
Theory of heat 83
Jorge Luis Borges 84 Gilbert Wesley Purdy, translator
Browning resolves to be a poet 85
Olav H. Hauge 86 Robert Hedin, translator
Slowly the Truth Dawns 87
Anxiety 87
Miguel Angel Bustos 88 Joan Lindgren, translator
The Patios of the Tiger 89
My Angel Will Bring You 90
I am immortal 90
Feature
Lisa Katz Ten Israeli Poets 92
Admiel Kosman
Lisa Katz, translator
Note in the Western Wall 98
Song For Jerusalem 100
Poets 101
Sharon Hass
Lisa Katz, translator
The Third Person 102
Mongoose 103
Rami Saari
Lisa Katz, translator
Dynasty 104
Moderna 104
Poem for the End of the Millenium 105
The Tree 106
Icon 106
Nurit Zarchi
Lisa Katz, translator
A Winter's Tale 107
Israel Eliraz
Gabriel Levin, translator
The Room 109
The Window 110
Love Poem 111
Amir Or
Lisa Katz, translator
Drowning, he breathes live water 112
Evening Prayer #2 113
Gali Dana Singer
Lisa Katz, translator
First Letter to Ona 114
Agi Mishol
Lisa Katz, translator
Papua New Guinea 116
The Swimmers 118
Galit Hasan-Rokem
Lisa Katz, translator
Danse Macabre 119
Midrash, Song of Songs 8:6-7 120
Hava Pinchas-Cohen
Rachel Tzvia Back, translator
A Woman at the Gate 121
Prose
Cynthia Hogue The Tao of Disease 124
Book Reviews
Light Verse from the Floating World: An Anthology of Pre-Modern Japanese Senryu
Edited by Makoto Ueda, Reviewed by William Rogers 136
Verse and Universe
Edited by Kurt Brown, Reviewed by Mark Underwood 138
Best American Poetry 1999
Edited by Robert Bly, Reviewed by Daniel Tessitore 140
Anthology of Modern American Poetry
Edited by Cary Nelson, Reviewed by Andrew John Miller 142
The Benefaction: Vicissitudes on Interior by John Kinsella
Fenland Pastorals by John Kinsella
Visitants by John Kinsella
Reviewed by Candice Ward 144
Selected Shorter Poems by Armand Schwerner
The Tablets by Armand Schwerner
Reviewed by David Kellogg 146
Making Your Own Days: The Pleasures of Reading and Writing Poetry by
Kenneth Koch
Reviewed by Catherine Daly 150
The Sky Behind the Forest: Selected Poems by Liliana Ursu
Reviewed by Robert Miltner 151
Walt Whitman in Hell by T.R. Hummer
Plus Shipping by Bob Hicok
Reviewed by Kevin Clark 153
New and Selected Poems 1961-1996 by Rochelle Owens
Reviewed by Jonathan Alexander 157
Hotel Imperium by Rachael Loden
The Last Campaign by Rachael Loden
Reviewed by Janet McCann 161
Squares and Courtyards by Marilyn Hacker
Reviewed by Benjamin Ivry 163
Appalachia by Charles Wright
Reviewed by John Canaday 165
Esperanza: Poems for Orpheus by Holly Prado
Reviewed by Catherine Daly 168
The Vandals by Alan Michael Parker
Reviewed by Stuart Greenhouse 169
Then, and Now: Selected Poems 1943-1993 by Theodore Enslin
Reviewed by Fred Muratori 172
Short Reviews by Joseph Duemer 174
Contributors' Notes & Commentary 178