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POETRY FOUNDED IN 1912 BY HARRIET MONROE VOLUME CLXVII * OCTOBER 1995 THROUGH MARCH 1996 POETRY EDITED by JOSEPH PARISI Managing Editor HELEN LOTHROP KLAVITER Associate Editor STEPHEN YOUNG Editorial Assistants WILLIAM D. FALLOON DAVIS MC COMBS 60 West Walton Street * Chicago, Illinois 60610 CONTENTS OF VOLUME 167 CONTRIBUTORS OF VERSE A. R. Ammons / 206 Moya Cannon / 26 Prey Viol Viola d’ Amore Daniel Anderson / 130 Executive Geochrone Ciaran Carson / 18 Eesti Wendy Battin / 278 Jacta Est Alea Seven Vox et Praeterea Nihil Six of One Donald Caswell / 332 / 342 How It Works Frond Harry Clifton / 35 Cynthia Belmont / 211 A Spider Dance on the Fields of Asphodel Bahnhofstrasse MacNeice’s London Randy Blasing / 216 Rock Country Michael Coady / 80 The Public Record Robert Bly / 154 Watching “The Dead” in the Waking on the Farm Living Room Sister Imelda Rising on the Last Eavan Boland / 93 Day Mother Ireland Peter Cole (Tr.) / 194 Philip Booth / 152 Three poems by Shmuel Ages HaNagid Pat Boran / 74 Billy Collins / 249 [The dead man’s clothes] Marginalia The Listener David Bottoms / 277 Splitting Wood Horseshoes Michael Davitt / 50 Neal Bowers / 212 3AG/3AG Say It With Flowers John F. Deane / 89 /f Zit Father Results of the Questionnaire Currency Marisa de los Santos / 267 Because I Love You John Brehm / 284 Postcard from the Heartbreak Peter Denman (Tr.) / 22 Hotel One poem by Biddy Jenkinson T. Alan Broughton / 270 Carl Dennis / 329 A Compliment Rescue Andrea Hollander Budy / 197 William Dickey / 140 Reading Aloud to My Mother The Arrival of the Titanic Dan Campion / 143 i ie i a Admonitions The Death ofJ ohn Berryman FOLi h y John Dickson / 281 Albert Goldbarth / 198 After The Rubaiyat Prepositions Circa 1861 Fred Dings / 217 Because It Happened The Man and the Cemetery Effigy Lorrie Goldensohn / 141 ee Timor Mortis Chains of Change Letter to Genetically Engineered Laurie Greer / 132 Super Humans Dark Matters Tom Disch / 324 / 208 A Sestina for Susan Sontag Blessing of the Hands Snowdrops/Candlemas Bells Gregory Djanikian / 263 The Physics of Traveling Away Eamon Grennan / 6 Leaving the Garden Theo Dorgan / 70 Alli Dying Seven Versions of Loss Eternal Streak of Light Nick Drake / 257 Susan Hahn / 269 Static February Day Stephen Dunn / 187 Donald Hall / 144 Loosestrife Without err ey eS”! Shmuel HaNagid / 194 After Making Love I Quartered the Troops for the Night The Critique feo al oe th 3885 The Heart Holds Hidden Meaninglessness Knowledge Nocturne (Tr. by Peter Cole) Sean Dunne / 31 Michael Hartnett / 60 One Sunday in the Gearagh IX Russians in Paris XVIII XXVI John Ennis / 27 Parables for Clane Hydroturbines Francis Harvey / 12 Rhina P. Espaillat / 155 The Wheelwright and the Boy Last Day Fishermen Peter Fallon / 84 The Space Between Love Letters Easter Again Sheepmen Padraic Fiacc / 72 Seamus Heaney / 1 Initial Deception A Dog Was Crying To-Night in Wicklow Also Caroline Finkelstein / 255 Remembered Colu-uns Mycenae Nightwatch Brief Richard Foerster / 139 John Hollander / 322 Icebound Two Predators Sandra M. Gilbert / 275 Mary Gray Hughes / 220 The Mountains Query CONTENTS OF VOLUME 167 Biddy Jenkinson / 22 Aidan Carl Mathews / 52 Cumann na bPiobairi/At the Way Out Pipers’ Club When (Tr. by Peter Denman) Handicap Alice Jones / 204 Williams Matthews / 314 Solo From Horace’s Satires: I, i; I, iii Light Thomas McCarthy / 5 Jane Kenyon / 146 The Garden of Sempervirons Man Sleeping The Call Peter Meinke / 280 Afternoon at MacDowell J Dutch Interiors Mosaic of the Nativity: Serbia, W. S. Merwin / 221 Winter, 1993 Portrait Completion Thomas Kinsella / 90 [I put my hand in my bosom] Maire Mhac an tSaoi / 38 Dream Shoa/Shoa Natura! Life John Montague / 56 Karl Kirchwey / 205 Remission Barium Psychic Surgery Lost Worlds Carolyn Kizer / 326 Between Poem for Your Birthday Stanley Moss / 203 Lynne Knight / 271 Swimmer O, Penelope! Now There Were More of Them Paul Muldoon / 75 The Throwback David Lanier / 134 This Far, in Snow (Tr.) / 76 One poem by Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill Fatima Lim-Wilson / 330 Upon Overhearing Tagalog Richard Murphy / 88 Mangoes Judy Longley / 219 Doppelganger Joan Newmann / 86 Rounders Michael Longley / 64 Rice The Quilt The Design Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill / 76 Mo Mhaistir Dorcha/My Dark Derek Mahon / 10 Master Chinatown (Tr. by Paul Muldoon) Roberta Marggraff / 213 Bernard O’Donoghue / 15 Vanishing Reassurance Child Language Acquisition Paul Mariani / 151 Kilmacow Then Desmond O’Grady (Tr.) / 46 David Mason / 150 One poem by Gabriel Questions at Christmas Rosenstock FORTRY Michael O’Loughlin / 40 Frankie Sewell (Tr.) / 66 Birth Certificate: Amsterdam, One poem by Cathal O Searcaigh 22 June 1988 At the Grave of Father Hopkins Ann Shaffer / 262 Displacements From Here Mary Oliver / 328 Robert B. Shaw / 282 Forty Years Another Orpheus Liam O Muirthile / 68 —- tg gs us An Luascan/The Swing nside the Concor useum (Tr. by Ciaran Carson) a ; . Anrvals Cathal O Searcaigh / 66 Oiche/Night A. E. Stallings / 215 (Tr. by Frankie Sewell) A Lament for the Dead Pets of Our Childhood Reynolds Price / 273 On the Road Richard Stern / 331 Napalm, L. B. The Hole After an AIDS Benefit With L. B. Barry Sternlieb / 340 William Little Ramsey / 268 Water Route He Catches Hell Tkebana Gabriel Rosenstock / 46 gt -_ Mustanbih/ Mustanbih 8 (Tr. by Desmond O’Grady) pon “cs Condition Clare Rossini / 286 Valediction David Wagoner / 276 At the Mouth of a Creek Anne Rouse / 207 Testament Charles Wright / 125 Lives of the Saints Richard Ryan / 29 Helix Mark Wunderlich / 136 Deafness In the Winter of This Climate ‘ To Sleep in a New City Philip Schultz / 258 On Opening A Woman’s Touch / 261 Change Aubade CONTENTS OF VOLUME 167 CONTRIBUTORS OF PROSE Ben Downing / 223 Meditations on the Insatiable Soul, Brief Reviews by Robert Bly After the Reunion, by David Baker Mother Love, by Rita Dove The Post Office Murals Restored, by The Darker Face of the Earth, by Robert B. Shaw Rita Dove The Parts of Light, by Vicki Hearne Bruce Murphy / 156 The Only World, by Lynda Hull The State of the World The Simple Truth, by Philip Linda Gregerson / 287 Levine Short Reviews New and Selected Poems, by Gary Like Most Revelations, by Richard Soto Howard The Book of the Dead Man, by The Vigil: A Poem in Four Voices, Marvin Bell by Margaret Gibson Odd Mercy, by Gerald Stern A Muriel Rukeyser Reader. Ed. by 5° and Other Poems, by Nicholas Jan Heller Levi Christopher The Knot, by Alice Jones Afterworld, by Christine Garren Ben Howard / 343 Forms and Discoveries Dennis O’Driscoll / 94 Collected Longer Poems, by A Map of Contemporary Irish Hayden Carruth Poetry BOOKS REVIEWED David Baker / 223 Margaret Gibson / 287 After the Reunion The Vigil: A Poem in Four Voices (v. Ben Downing) (v. Linda Gregerson) Marvin Bell / 156 Vicki Hearne / 223 The Book of the Dead Man The Parts of Light (v. Bruce Murphy) (v. Ben Downing) Robert Bly / 343 Richard Howard / 287 Meditations on the Insatiable Soul Like Most Revelations (v. Ben Howard) (v. Linda Gregerson) Hayden Carruth / 343 Lynda Hull / 223 Collected Longer Poems The Only World (v. Ben Howard) (v. Ben Downing) Nicholas Christopher / 156 Alice Jones / 287 5° and Other Poems The Knot (v. Bruce Murphy) (v. Linda Gregerson) Rita Dove / 343 Mother Love Jan Heller Levi (Ed.) / 287 The Darker Face of the Earth A Muriel Rukeyser Reader (v. Ben Howard) (v. Linda Gregerson) Christine Garren / 156 Philip Levine / 156 Afterworld The Simple Truth (v. Bruce Murphy) (v. Bruce Murphy) POETRY Muriel Rukeyser / 287 Gary Soto / 156 A Muriel Rukeyser Reader. Ed. by New and Selected Poems Jan Heller Levi (v. Bruce Murphy) (v. Linda Gregerson) Robert B. Shaw / 223 Gerald Stern / 156 The Post Office Murals Restored Odd Mercy (v. Ben Downing) (v. Bruce Murphy) e