TABLE OF CONTENTS

EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION

POEMS

Thomas Lux A Man Gets Off Work Early
Cucumber Fields Crossed by High Tension Wires

Susan Musgrave Things That Keep and Do Not Change
Arctic Poppies

Robert Bly Pausing Near the Lac Qui Parle River
In Praise of the Mind

Khaled Mattawa In Praise of Air
Two Love Poems

Leslie Ullman Eros

Marisela Norte Big Red

Yusef Komunyakaa Monkey Wrench
November's Nocturne

Jacqueline Marcus Wood-Carved Horse in Autumn

Philip St. Clair Time

Joseph Bathanti Night and Fog

Taylor Graham Backlit

Dennis Saleh June Cameo

Paul Dresman Cleaning Woman

Anca Vlasopolos Stray

Joshua McKinney Primer
He Would Lose Himself

John Latta A Notebook of First Permission

Caron Andregg Begin with everything you can remember

Linda Pastan The Haunting

Patricia Gray The Scalding

Diane Wakoski Robert's Spaghetti Sauce
Eating a Plum on the Terrace

Mario Susko Reconstruction
Gary Young Two Poems

Maxine Kumin Calling Out of Grays Point
Afoot in Grays Point

Philip Dacey Four Hands

Joseph Millar Heart Attack

Ben Passikoff Hit or Myth

Kim Addonizio Fine

Charles Harper Webb 'Did That Really Happen'?

Gary Soto Bienvenido, My Friend

Janet Holmes Lauds

Hayden Carruth The Afterlife: Time and the Cherry Tree
After Ronsard

Jill McDonough Museum Piece

Sarah Maclay His Head is a Parted Curtain
And Flagstones Shine in the Night

TRANSLATIONS

Dante Alighieri
W.S. Merwin, trans. Purgatory XXVII

Katarzyna Borun-
Jagodzinska
Kathleen Snodgrass,
trans. Aida
Mimi's Aria
Fidelio I
Fidelio II

Richard Exner
Martha Collins, trans. Presence and Absence: Thirty-Seven Transcriptions

Ghalib
Robert Bly and Sunil
Dutta, trans. When My Letter Writer Gets Frightened
Waiting for God

Juan Gelman
Joan Lindgren, trans. With the Dough
An Idea
Desolate Light
You Who Looked Out
Quiet at Last

Miklós Radnóti
Brett Foster, trans. Yesterday and Today
A Simpleton's Song for My Wife
The Hunted

Marin Sorescu
Adam Sorkin, trans. Don Juan (After He'd Consumed Tons of Lipstick)
Revalations

Machi Tawara
Jill McDonough, trans. Two Tanka

Miguel Angel Zapata
Anthony Seidman, trans. The Hour of the Poem
Lilac Rain
 

FEATURE

Steve Kowit     The Mystique of the Difficult Poem
 

PROSE

David Shaddock Denise Levertov: A Remembrance and an Appreciation
 
 

BOOK REVIEWS

Meter in English: A Critical Engagement. Edited by David Baker
The Poem's Heartbeat: A Manual of Prosody. Edited by Alfred Corn
Rethinking Meter: A New Approach to the Verse Line by Alan Holder
Rules for the Dance: A Handbook for Writing and Reading Metrical Verse by Mary Oliver
The Sounds of Poetry: A Brief Guide by Robert Pinsky
reviewed by Michael Heffernan

Writing Between the Lines. Edited by Kevin Bowen and Bruce Weigl
reviewed by Joseph Duemer

100 Great Poems by Women. Edited by Carolyn Kizer
reviewed by Annie Finch

An Anthology of New (American) Poets. Edited by Lisa Jarnot, Leonard Schwartz, and Chris Stroffolino
reviewed by Michael Magee

All of Us by Raymond Carver
reviewed by Fred Moramarco

Sweet Machine by Mark Doty
An Island Sheaf by Mark Doty
reviewed by Sharon Dolin

Questions, Short Poems, Water & Air by Ira Beryl Brukner
reviewed by Fred Muratori

At My Ease: Uncollected Poems of the Fifties and Sixties by David Ignatow
The Old Liberators: New and Selected Poems and Translations by Robert Hedin
reviewed by David Kellogg

The Gatekeeper's Wife by Fay Zwicky
reviewed by Brian Henry

Fuel by Naomi Shihab Nye
Cell Count by Christopher Bursk
reviewed by Gerry LaFemina

Smokes by Susan Wheeler
reviewed by H.L. Hix

Just Let Me Say This About That by John Bricuth
reviewed by H.L. Hix

Short Reviews by Joseph Duemer
 

CONTRIBUTORS' NOTES & COMMENTARY
 

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