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POETRY FOUNDED IN 1912 BY HARRIET MONROE VOLUME CLIX * OCTOBER 1991 THROUGH MARCH 1992 POETRY EDITED by JOSEPH PARISI Managing Editor HELEN LOTHROP KLAVITER Associate Editor STEPHEN YOUNG Editorial Assistants REX WILDER WILLIAM D. FALLOON 60 West Walton Street « Chicago, Illinois 60610 CONTENTS OF VOLUME 159 CONTRIBUTORS OF VERSE A. R. Ammons / 1 Lucille Broderson / 142 An Improvisation for the Pieties of September Sunday Modernism This Is Your Old Age, Lucy An Improvisation for Angular Requiem Momentum An Improvisation for Soot and Suet T. Alan Broughton / 24 Lyric Renée A. Ashley / 253 Missing You Thomas Brush/ 145 Stars ene O Lr} Pressing the Body On Christopher Buckley / 83 Reincarnation David Baker / 323 Isotropic Charming The Extinction of the Dinosaurs Joanna Carlsen / 135 Tivo Songs from a Car David Barber / 255 The Favor Turner Cassity / 209 Monumental Is More Than a Question Wendy Barker / 264 of Scale Reason of Lace At the Palace of Fine Arts Meaner Than a Junkyard Dog; or, Georgi Belev / 20 Turner’s Evil Twin Train Tale Sergiu Celac (Tr. with Adam J. (Tr. by Lisa Sapinkopf) Sorkin) / 18 Two poems by Daniela Crasnaru Randy Blasing / 200 Mother Tongue David Citino / 125 Winter Chana Bloch / 275 The Secret Life Billy Collins / 19 The Ghost Worm Monster The Art of Drowning Inside Tuesday ey Fiftieth Birthday Eve Michael Blumenthal / 95 Dancing Toward Bethlehem And the Wages of Goodness Are Not Assured / 189 Ordinary Heartbreaks Paperwork Neal Bowers / 221 Luciana Costea (Tr. with W. D. Art Thief Snodgrass & Dona Rosu) / 191 Four poems by Marin Sorescu ey The Half Life Steven Cramer / 22 Repairs The Game POETRY Daniela Crasnaru / 18 Marcia L. Hurlow / 274 Lethal Dose Nuclear Romance Breath (Tr. by Adam J. Sorkin & Sergiu Jean Janzen / 148 Celac) St. Basil’s Cathedral W. S. Di Piero / 218 On a Picture by Cézanne Sam F. Johnson / 205 Eye Rising Tom Disch / 195 Three People and Their Feelings Alice Jones / 279 Red Tulips in 1947 Brother and Sister Remarks Concerning the Fitness of All Things Mary Karr / 258 Villanelle for Charles Olson Don Giovanni’s Confessor Mark Doty / 155 Susan Kelly-DeWitt / 91 To Bessie Drennan Francis in Ecstasy Elliot Figman / 273 Night and Day Richard Kenney / 63 Lucifer Gary Fincke / 219 The Elephant Paintings Ann B. Knox / 254 Circles Richard Foerster / 313 The Hours Larry Kramer / 149 Wild Onions Alice Friman / 31 Invitation to a Minor Poet <ncieciegeiecan | BOF The Public Monuments Max Garland / 92 Revisiting the Sistine Chapel Daniel J. Langton / 30 Stephen Gibson / 217 Everything Is Clear Except Events Woman with Crysanthemums Robert J. Levy/ 15 Sandra M. Gilbert / 97 On Looking at a Photo of Myself, Age The Magi in Florida 10, After a Tonsillectomy In the Garage of the Retirement Complex / 127 Indoor Camellia The Parents Beyond Recipes William Greenway / 14 Hypochondria Robert Long / 320 Return to Nowheresville Susan Hahn / 206 Tie City Calendar Rick Madigan / 146 Jeffrey Harrison / 12 Sacraments Mycology Martha Hollander / 272 Jayanta Mahapatra / 17 Giorgione’s Tempest: Another Story Farewell Richard Howard / 201 Stephen Matanle / 213 To a Librettist at Liberty Errand CONTENTS OF VOLUME 159 William Matthews / 25 W. D. Snodgrass (Tr. with Dona Rosu Reticence & Luciana Costea) / 191 The Buddy Bolden Cylinder Four poems by Marin Sorescu Mingus at The Showplace Three Translations from Martial’s Marvin Solomon / 136 Epigrams Emily’s Room Victoria McCabe / 331 a Outline for a Life of Balzac The Headache That Wasn’t There, Isn’t There Sandra McPherson / 5 Genius of Fog at Ecola Creek Mouth Cathy Song/ 132 Eat W. S. Merwin / 251 Christmas Eve Search Party Marin Sorescu / 191 Stanley Moss / 151 Creation Stations Solemnly Thieves Mary Oliver / 7 I Bound Up the Trees’ Eyes Rain (Tr. by W. D. Snodgrass with Dona Rosu & Luciana Costea) Alicia Ostriker / 203 What I Want Adam J. Sorkin (Tr. with Sergiu Celac) / 18 Two poems by Daniela Crasnaru Sonia Raiziss / 214 Cocktail Aquarium Gabriel Spera / 260 My Ex-Husband James Richardson / 337 Post-Romantic Stephen Stepanchev / 87 November Robert Richman / 257 Possession Julie Suk / 266 Remembering the Plot Dona Rosu (Tr. with W. D. Snodgrass Playing Against Sleep & Luciana Costea) / 191 Beyond the Hill Four poems by Marin Sorescu Quicksilver La Tempesta Ernest Sandeen / 141 Soon After Nightfall Daniel Tobin / 88 Passages Lisa Sapinkopf (Tr.) / 20 Two poems by Georgi Belev Ronald Wallace / 281 February 14 Terry Savoie / 153 Hairbrush William Collins Watterson / 139 School for Missionaries Eine Kleine Nachtmusik Robert B. Shaw/ 325 / 222 Last Days in Camden To a Young Museum Guard Enid Shomer / 340 William Wenthe / 338 Pope Joan Trope Floyd Skloot / 131 J. B White / 216 Solstice Degas POETRY CONTRIBUTORS OF PROSE David Baker / 283 Landscape at the End of the Century, Smarts by Stephen Dunn Singularities, by Susan Howe The Never-Ending, by Andrew NY Hudgins Goddesses, Gods, and Devils Bethlehem in Broad Daylight, by The Sacraments of Desire, by Linda Mark Doty Gregg Star Ledger, by Lynda Hull Selected Poems 1963-1983, by Questions About Angels, by Billy Charles Simic Collins The Book of Gods and Devils, by Charles Simic Alfred Corn / 157 Alice Fulton / 32 Short Reviews On the Plains of Fancy Living in Time, by Rachel Hadas The Dogwood Tree, by Jennifer Lenten Anniversaries, Poems 1982- Atkinson 1989, by Ben Howard No Private Life, by Michelle Even a Fist Was Once an Open Palm Boisseau with Fingers, by Yehuda Amichai Bright Moves, by J. Allyn Rosser Collected Poems, by Edwin Morgan Sea Room, by Maria Flook Flow Chart, by John Ashbery The Six-Cornered Snowflake and Other Poems, by John Frederick Steven Cramer / 101 Nims Paying Attention Zany in Denim, by John Frederick The Really Short Poems of A. R. Nims Ammons Blue Autumn, by Christopher Robert B. Shaw / 346 Buckley Something of Great Constancy Fate, by Ai A Howard Nemerov Reader BOOKS REVIEWED Ai/ tor Michelle Boisseau / 32 Fate No Private Life (v. Steven Cramer) (v. Alice Fulton) Yehuda Amichai / 157 Christopher Buckley / 101 Even a Fist Was Once an Open Palm Blue Autumn with Fingers (v. Steven Cramer) (v. Alfred Corn) Billy Collins / 283 A. R. Ammons / to1 Questions About Angels The Really Short Poems of. . . (v. David Baker) (v. Steven Cramer) John Ashbery / 147 Mary Doty / 283 Flow Chart Bethlehem in Broad Daylight (v. Alfred Corn) (v. David Baker) Jennifer Atkinson / 32 Stephen Dunn / 101 The Dogwood Tree Landscape at the End of the Century (v. Alice Fulton) (v. Steven Cramer) CONTENTS OF VOLUME 159 Maria Flook / 32 Lynda Hull / 283 Sea Room Star Ledger (v. Alice Fulton) (v. David Baker) Edwin Morgan / 157 Linda Gregg / 223 Collected Poems The Sacraments of Desire (v. Alfred Corn) (v. Steven Cramer) Howard Nemerov / 346 Rachel Hadas / 157 A Howard Nemerov Reader Living in Time (v. Robert B. Shaw) (v. Alfred Corn) John Frederick Nims / 32 Ben Howard / 157 The Six-Cornered Snowflake and Lenten Anniversaries, Poems Other Poems 1982-1989 Zany in Denim (v. Alfred Corn) (v. Alice Fulton) J. Allyn Rosser/ 32 Susan Howe / 283 Bright Moves Singularities (v. Alice Fulton) (v. David Baker) Charles Simic / 223 Andrew Hudgins / 283 Selected Poems 1963-1983 The Never-Ending The Book of Gods and Devils (v. David Baker) (v. Steven Cramer)