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Table of Contents BEN DOWNING In Memoriam (introduction) * 2 WILLIAM MEYERS isaac Meyers (photograph) wg HANNAH ELKA MEYERS Some Memories of Times with My Brother Isaac (t7ibute) * 5 HERBERT LEIBOWITZ AND SUSAN YANKOWITZ Isaac Meyers (tribute) * 9 ISAAC MEYERS Shaofd Preopesrti us (essay) * 12 JOHN RIDLAND Kaddish in Sapphics (poem) * 35 DAVID YEZZI Joycelin Shrager, R.I.P. (introduction) * 36 TOM DISCH (AS JOYCELIN SHRAGER) i'm tired, years ago at a PEN symposium, before he killed himself donald, i am on tender hooks any moment now, my life has always been full of, my poetry doesn't seem like poetry (poems) * 40 TOM DISCH The Elegist, Funeral Games 1, Funeral Games 2, The Bright Side 3, Untitled (poems) * 4 ALBERT GOLDBARTH Che Bivalves Proof (poem) * 52 CHRISTOPHER BAKKEN The Throumobf Tehassso s (essay) * 54 ROBIN GILLANDERS Two Details from Little Sparta (photographs) * 80 DEVIN JOHNSTON Arcadian Notes (dan Hamilton Finlays Little Sparta) * 82 arnassus CHRISTOPHER BAKKEN Some Thing Along Strada C. A. Rosetti (poem) * 93 JOHN MATTHIAS Prince Marko (essay) * 96 ALBERT GOLDBARTH The Asparagus Tongs, Empty Poem, Goth Boy: An Instruction (poems) * 118 ERIC MURPHY SELINGER Men from Galilee (Samih al-Qasim, Mahmoud Darwish, and Taha Muhammad Ali) © 124 PETER MCCAREY Seven Rhymes (essay) * 153 RITA DOVE Polgreen, Sight-Reading, Tail Tucked (poems) * 172 DANIEL ALBRIGHT Heine and the Composers (essay) * 176 JOHN MATTHIAS Hess/Hess (poem) * 202 JOHN FOY My New Guitar (poem) * 208 DIANN BLAKELY Preaching Blues (Up Jumped the Devil): Duet with Robert Johnson #20, Last Fair Deal Gone Down: Duet with Robert Johnson #29 (poems) * 209 MATTHEW GUREWITSCH Sondheim's World (essay) * 212 STEPHEN HAVEN The Last Sacred Place in North America (poem) * 229 DICK DAVIS Reconnoitering, Telling It Like It Is (poems) * 231 Table of Contents ° vil MOLLY MCQUADI Suitor Underwater (poem) * 233 MARGOT LURII Final Exam, The Teaching Assistant (poems) * 235 CATHERINE MADSEN “Go Above Your Nerve” (Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson) * 32237 BECCA The Writer in Pain (poem) * 247 ERIC ORMSBY Ancient Chills (Elizabeth Bishop) * 248 ROGER GILBERT Seidel’s Shtick (Frederick Seidel) ¢ 259 ORIOLE FESHBACH The Auroras of Autumn (painting) © 27 MARI LYONS Courtyard in Summer with Figure of Buddha (painting) * 272 EDITH ISAAC-ROS!] Blind Obedience (embroidery) e 273 MAUREEN MULLARKEY All Metaphors (collage) * 274 WES DAVIS Fear and Loathing at Lagunitas (Robert Hass) * 275 JULIE SHEEHAN Grading Rubric for Children of Divorce (poem) * 307 OTTO-RAUL GONZALEZ Dunia (poem) * 310 CATHY PARK HONG A Little Téte-a-Téte (poem) * 312 JEREMY AXELROD Thanksgiving (poem) * 314 vill * Parnassus JOY LADIN The Velveteen Woman (essay) * 316 LUCIE BROCK-BROIDO Freedom of Speech, Meditation on the Sources of the Catastrophic Imagination (poems) * 345 ANNA JOURNEY Lost Vocabularies: On Contemporary Elegy (Larry Levis, Beckian Fritz Goldberg, Lynda Hull) © 347 MARK SCROGGINS Dark Matters (Peter Gizzi, Rae Armantrout) * 366 IAIN BAMFORTH Lepidoptery (poem) * 387 STAR BLACK Noon, One Sky, Lost Tree of Heaven (poems) * 388 KARL KIRCHWEY Post Holes (poem) * 391 STUART FRIEBERT Anadromous (vpio em) * k 392 ERNEST HILBERT Panthera (poem) * 393 Contributors * 394 Artwork Credits © 399 Index to Volumes 1-30 © 400 Cover: LAUREN REDNISS, “HALFLIFE: MARIE CURIE, 1911” COURTESY OF THE ARTIST.