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CONTENTS OF VOLUME 171 CONTRIBUTORS OF VERSE A. R. Ammons / | Billy Collins / 12 Clabberbabble I Go Back to the House for a Book John Ashbery / 2 i Taking Off Emily Dickinson's Proximity Clothes Laughing Gravy Robert Cording / 337 Marvin Bell / 3 Gift Sounds of the Resurrected Dead Man’s Footsteps #26 Alfred Corn / 13 Audubon’s Green-Shank George Bilgere / 217 Timed Exposure W. Morri Creech / 143 A Madeleine Prayer to My Living Father Testament Chana Bloch / 254 Though You Haven’t Asked carl Dennis / 14 sceiapatnicaniomeae: *, 329 A Priest of Hermes Visiting Hours Are Over i ieO e Bibles and Driveways Eavan Boland / 4 At the Dock A Dream of Colony / 323 Philip Booth / 5 St. Francis and the Nun Writing It Down William Dickey / 15 David Bottoms / 7 Caliban’s Second Song Occurrence in the Big Sky Tom Disch / 16 Neal Bowers / 9 To an Unrepentant Plagiarist The Passed Rita Dove / 16 ees. fF BSS Duration Evening Primrose / 187 John Brehm / 10 Testimonial Songbird For Sophie Who’ll Be in First Grade in the Year 2000 Christopher Buckley / 130 Soprano Concerning Paradise Stephen Dunn / 17 Roger Caldwell / 268 Music Gas Noise Maria Luisa A. Carino / 147 Stuart Dybek / 18 The Other Annunciation Swan Turner Cassity / 11 / 259 Walking on Water Vigil Kelly Cherry / 150 Irving Feldman / 19 Study for an Annunciation They Say and They Repeat POETRY Caroline Finkelstein / 252 Edward Hirsch / 33 A Persuasion Oscar Ginsburg Statement / 270 Guillaume Apollinaire Grant Flint / 145 Marina Tsvetaeva Making God John Hollander / 35 Richard Foerster / 20 Fire! A Tetradrachm ofA lexander the Great / 156 Alice Fulton / 21 An Afterward Omamental / 204 Faye George / 216 Digital At This Point in Time Richard Howard / 36 Robert Gibb / 135 Family Values Quatrainfso r a Christmas Bear Rodney Jones / 39 Sandra M. Gilbert / 22 The Poetry Reading Basil / 276 The Obsolescence of Thou /. 232 November Afternoon Donald Justice / 41 / 261 The Voice of Col. von Stauffenberg Enormous Wind Rising from Purgatory Albert Goldbarth / 23 Paul Kane / 133 True Variations on a Stanza by Longfellow Eamon Grennan / 26 World Mary Karr / 325 The Century’s Worst Blizzard Se ree ens | The Patient Winter Bees Aubade Kathleen Keenan / 328 Vigil Rachel Hadas / 26 Four Short Stories X. J. Kennedy / 42 Harriet Susan Hahn / 28 Frigid 1996 ny Te “The Purpose of Time Is To Prevent Se ee | S75 Everything from Happening at Frigid 1994 Once” / 320 Richard Kenney / 42 Perennial Between The Baobab Tree 1995 The Baobab Tree 1996 / 146 0,1 Dennis Haskell / 29 The Talk James Kimbrell / 43 Orpheus in Yong Island Seamus Heaney / 30 Three-Piece Galway Kinnell / 44 Middle Path Daryl Hine / 33 The World Is Everything That Is the John Kinsella / 45 Case Death of a Farm Boy CONTENTS OF VOLUME 171 Yusef Komunyakaa / 46 John Montague / 56 The Song Thief Robert, Old Stager Maxine Kumin / 47 Robin Morgan / 255 Lying in Bed Away from Home Add-Water Instant Blues Brad Leithauser / 48 Stanley Moss / 57 Blessinfgo rM alcolm Lowry Judas Philip Levine / 48 Lisel Mueller / 58 Black Stone on Top of Nothing Ex Machina Jon Loomis / 160 Paul Muldoon / 59 Last Days Apple Slump Gigi Marks / 260 Delisa Mulkey / 267 The Swim First Crush: Sixth-Period Greek Mythology William Matthews / 50 Job Interview Jack Myers / $9 Sticks and Stones: Another Story / 249 About the Buddha Misgivings / 333 John Frederick Nims / 60 Grandmother, Dead at 99 Years and Two Madrigals by Michelangelfoo r 10 Months Vittoria Colonna / 274 J. D. McClatchy / $1 A Madrigal by Michelangelo for Lines on My Face Vittoria Colonna ssnistiomastisiaccipionin: * 897 Under Hydra D. Nurkse / 311 Leaving Mary Magdalene / 256 The Dialogue of Desire and Guilt Sharon Olds / 61 Mother Michael McFee / 336 Bruises Mary Oliver / 62 The Storm Joe-Anne McLaughlin / 52 The Owl Fort Western Linda Pastan / 63 Ted McNulty / 332 Self-Portrait The Last Suit / 1§1 Sandra McPherson / 52 The Islands To a Book of Needles, 1918 Night Falls on Nantucket Sound Peter Meinke / 54 Paulann Petersen / 262 M, Haven Resolution W. S. Merwin / 55 Wanting To See Reynolds Price / 64 Late Glimpse A Final Stand Accompaniment David Ricks / 161 / 208 Landscape, After Ruisdael Left Hand This Time Pattiann Rogers / 65 Jeanne Duval Self-Recognition of the Observer As Travelling West at Night Momentary Cessation of Process POETRY / 198 Timothy Steele / 81 On the Way to Early Moming Mass Going Reiteration Gerald Stern / 82 Kay Ryan / 67 Pamet Harbor Grazing Horses Ruth Stone / 83 David St. John / 67 So Be It Rhapsody Lucien Stryk / 84 MaryJo Salter / 68 One Liam Wistawa Szymborska / 85 / 202 A Great Man’s House Institutfeo r the Hand (Tr. by Joanna Trzeciak) George Scarbrough / 69 Alexander Theroux / 264 The New Biology Shiloh Italian Girl Nancy Schoenberger / 213 January Joanna Trzeciak (Tr.) / 85 One poem by Wistawa Grace Schulman / 69 Szymborska Prayer Leslie Ullman / 87 Philip Schultz / 71 Calypso, Twilight Epithalamion 258 Lloyd Schwartz / 72 Hotwire Song John Updike / 89 Robin Seyfried / 73 Bridge Bulk Poetry Miriam Vermilya / 329 Alan Shapiro / 74 Consider Socrates Bedtime Story, 1979 David Wagoner / 89 Alan Shapiro / 335 For a Row of Laurel Shrubs Nordic Track ea ee yy Robert B. Shaw / 76 The Silence of the Stars Remainders / 190 Recital Charles Simic / 76 The House of Song The Wooden Toy The Return of Orpheus At the Summit / 127 Going Back to the Sea The Mystic Life / 250 Charlie Smith / 79 In a Garden Mute Jeanne Murray Walker / 266 Elizabeth Spires / 80 Song of the Girl Who Stepped Out Bruise of Language A. E. Stallings / 81 / 333 Homecoming Light CONTENTS OF VOLUME 171 Ronald Wallace / 134 C. K. Williams / 93 Pleasure Ice Chris Wallace-Crabbe / 91 David Wojahn / 94 Angeltime Arion / 159 Now the Good Minute Goes Charles Wright / 96 The Appalachian Book of the Dead Renée & Theodore Weiss / 91 III That Song Opus Posthumous II CONTRIBUTORS OF PROSE Bill Christophersen / 339 John Taylor / 219 Short Reviews Short Reviews Dialogufeo r the Left and Right Alive Together: New and Selected Hand, by Steven Cramer Poems, by Lisel Mueller The Millennium Hotel, by Mark What Are Big Girls Made Of?, by Rudman Marge Piercy Broken Symmetry, by David Citino Present, by Alfred Corn Earth Elegy: New and Selected The Collected Poems, by Reynolds Poems, by Margaret Gibson Price Junior College, by Gary Soto Walt Whitman Bathing, by David Millennium Fever, by Jack Marshall Wagoner The Broken World, by Marcus Swimming Lessons: New and Cafagna Selected Poems, by Nancy Willard Ben Howard / 279 Irish Voices Christian Wiman / 289 Collected Poems, by John Short Reviews Montague Angel, Interrupted, by Reginald An Origin Like Water: Collected Shepherd Poems 1967-1987, by Eavan Boland Sky and Island Light, by Brendan Time and the Island, by Sean Dunne Galvin Scars, by Peter Meinke Robert B. Shaw / 162 Opera Et Cetera, by Ciaran Carson Prufrock Redivivus The World at Large, by James Inventions of the March Hare: Poems McMichael 1909-1917, by T. S. Eliot M and Other Poems, by John Peck FOLTRY BOOKS REVIEWED Eavan Boland / 279 James McMichael / 289 An Origin Like Water: Collected The World at Large Poems 1967-1987 (v. Christian Wiman) (v. Ben Howard) Peter Meinke / 289 Marcus Cafagiia / 339 Scars The Broken World (v. Christian Wiman) (v. Bill Christophersen) John Montague / 279 Ciaran Carson / 289 Collected Poems Opera Et Cetera (v. Ben Howard) (v. Christian Wiman) Lisel Mueller / 219 David Citino / 339 Alive Together: New and Selected Broken Symmetry Poems (v. Bill Christophersen) (v. John Taylor) John Peck / 289 Alfred Corn / 219 M and Other Poems Present (v. Christian Wiman) (v. John Taylor) Marge Piercy / 219 Steven Cramer / 339 What Are Big Girls Made Of? Dialogufeo r the Left and Right (v. John Taylor) Hand (v. Bill Christophersen) Reynolds Price / 219 The Collected Poems Sean Dunne / 279 (v. John Taylor) Time and the Island (v. Ben Howard) Mark Rudman / 339 The Millennium Hotel T. S. Eliot / 162 (v. Bill Christophersen) Inventions of the March Hare: Poems 1909-1917 Reginald Shepherd / 289 (v. Robert B. Shaw) Angel, Interrupted (v. Christian Wiman) Brendan Galvin / 289 Gary Soto / 339 Sky and Island Light Junior College (v. Christian Wiman) (v. Bill Christophersen) Margaret Gibson / 339 David Wagoner / 219 Earth Elegy: New and Selected Walt Whitman Bathing Poems (v. John Taylor) (v. Bill Christophersen) Nancy Willard / 219 Jack Marshall / 339 Swimming Lessons: New and Millennium Fever Selected Poems (v. Bill Christophersen) (v. John Taylor)