Poetry InternationalIssue II
Table of Contents
Editor’s Introduction
Poems
Robert Arroyo Letter to Catalina 2
Jean Monahan Lonely in Eden 4
Wind in November4Charles H. Webb Love Poetry 6
Sharon Dolin Krupp’s Walk 8
James Baker Hall Names9
Wanda Coleman Unseated Cube Woman Weeping 10
Unseated Cube Woman Weeping (2) 11Mark Defoe The Green Chair 12
The Wanderer13
Finding the Box That I Built 14
Barbara Henning The Truly Puzzled One 14
They Must Be Able to Do Something 16
Send the Puzzled One on Her Way 17
John Grey The Past, a Remake 18
Heather Dubrow Ring Cycle (I): Engagement Ring 19
Allison Stone Trains20
Fred Muratori Eclipse 4 22
Eclipse 523
Nan Cohen Rope Bridge24
Mary Winter What I Did on My Summer Vacation 26
Stephen Dunn Details 28
Al Zolynas My Life Is Over 31
David Oliveira Eating Chinese Food in Spain 33
David Graham The Dogs in Dutch Paintings 35
Camille Dungy On Returning from England 36
Robert Wynne 1EVB55937
I Looked Up God. No Listing 38
Wesley McNair The Book of A 39
Brett Foster The Snowday 40
Judy Kronenfeld Names of My Mother’s Friends 42
Mark Lewis My Uncle and the Jazz Musician 43
Ai The Antihero45
Ron Koertge Against Untitled 49
The Huntington Library50
Gerald Locklin edward hopper: hotel by a railroad 51
Phillis Levin Table Manners 52
Antler Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is 53
Melisa Cehajic Life in Bad Translation (Odakle Ti Pravo) 54
Rodeo55
Ray Gonzalez The Angels of Juárez, Mexico 56
Thylias Moss Thrift Store 58
Claire Bateman I Admit I Am Powerless over the
Compulsion to Read, & My Life
Has Become Unmanageable60
From The Book of Tunnels 61
Translations
Heinz Czechowski
Ken Fontenot, Translator
Traveling67
Bogomil Gjuzel
P.H. Liotta, Translator
Homage to Vasko Popa69
Troy70
Yannis Ritsos
Minas Savvas, Translator
Autumn73
After the End76
Vicenç Llorca
Nathaniel Smith, Translator
Extremity of Continents79
Feature
Poetry of the New Russia
J. Kates
INTRODUCTION
Poetry of the New Russia 83
Mikhail Aizenberg
Inside the Whale88
My Kind of Day 89
Olga Popova
Fatal Blizzard 90
The Curve of Your Lips 91
Andrey Gritsman
The Chronicle of a Sigh 94
Jerusalem95
Tatiana Shcherbina
Black Orchid97
Point98Aleksey Shelvakh
Veterans99
Sergey Stratanovsky
The Obvodny Canal100
Evgeny Saburov
Monks Understand101
Where There Is No Freedom 102Marina Eskina
One More Time103
Rosehip104Irina Ratushinskaya
A Poem for Elena 105
Passerby106Dmitry Bykov
The Muse 107
Aleksandr Kushner
I Spit on Life 111
Prose
Denis Donoghue The Practice of Reading 114
Russ MacKechnie Prufrock at Century’s End 129
Book Reviews
Recent Anthologies
Out of Everywhere: Liguistically Innovative Poetry by Women in
North America & the UK. Edited by Maggie O’Sullivan 136
reviewed by David Kellogg
Twentieth-Century Latin American Poetry: A Bilingual Anthology.
Edited by Stephen Tapscott
reviewed by Elzbieta Szoka 139
Nothing the Sun Could Not Explain: 20 Contemporary
Brazilian Poets. Edited by Michael Palmer, Règis Bonvicino,
and Nelson Ascher, Foreword by João Almino
reviewed by Elzbieta Szoka 140
Books by or about Individual Poets
Second Best Moments in Chinese History by Frank Kuppner
Reviewed by Brian Henry 142
School of Fish by Eileen Myles
Reviewed by Eden Osucha 143
Rock Farm by Catherine Bowman
Reviewed by Marcia Southwick 145
Landscape over Zero by Bei Dao
Reviewed by Dean Brink 146
Sky and Island Light by Brendan Galvin
O Paradise by William Trowbridge
Reviewed by David Graham 149
Questions of Ecclesiastes by Mark Jarman
Reviewed by H.L. Hix 152
Eating Bread and Honey by Patiann Rogers
Reviewed by Ruth Stone 153
Desire by Frank Bidart
Green Ash, Red Maple, Black Gum by Michael Waters
Reviewed by H.L. Hix 155
Jimmy & Rita by Kim Addonizio
Monsters and Other Lovers by Lisa Glatt
Reviewed by Dan Tessitore 157
The Night Path by Laurie Kutchins
Reviewed by Jacqueline Marcus 159
Bodily Course by Deborah Gorlin
Reviewed by Jacqueline Marcus 161
Sweet Lorain by Bruce Weigl
Blessing This House by Jim Daniels
Reviewed by Joe Bratcher 162
Pretty Happy by Peter Johnson
Days by Gary Young
Reviewed by Mark Vinz 166
The Women Carry River Water by Nguyen Quang Thieu
Locusts at the Edge of Summer: New &
Selected Poems by John Balaban
Reviewed by Joseph Duemer 167
Brief Notes on Books Received 171
Contributor’s Notes & Commentary