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POETRY FOUNDED IN 1912 BY HARRIET MONROE VOLUME CLXXVII * OCTOBER 2000 THROUGH MARCH 2001 POETRY EDITED by JOSEPH PARISI Senior Editor STEPHEN YOUNG Business and Projects Manager HELEN LOTHROP KLAVITER Assistant Editors AARON FAGAN DREW SWINGER 60 West Walton Street * Chicago, Illinois 60610 CONTENTS OF VOLUME 177 CONTRIBUTORS OF VERSE Gabrielle Althen / 102 Peter Bethanis / 380 Confiteor / Confiteor Li Hua’s Messenger The Weight of the Sky Without Slavery Randy Blasing / 367 The Suspended House Retriever (Tr. by Danielle Cohn) Byzantine Bird John Ashbery (Tr.) / 16 Yves Bonnefoy / 20 Two poems by Pierre Martory From La Pluie d’été / From Summer Rain Renée Ashley / 256 (Tr. by Hoyt Rogers) Not What She Had in Mind Geoffrey Brock (Tr.) / 6 David Ball (Tr.) / 110 One poem by Michel de Smet One poem by James Sacré ey Ae Marie-Claire Bancquart / 64 One poem by Gil Jouanard [Le vent secoue le souvenir] / [Wind shakes memory] [It’s been two thousand years now] ne Two Moon to a Journalist After [Every morning we set out again] Rehearsal: 1898 [As for me, I love an older man] (Tr. by Maxianne Berger) Joseph Campana / 185 False Etymology John Bargowski / 376 Water Social Studies Class, St. Nicholas School, 1962 Henry Carlile / 311 Silvia Baron Supervielle / 72 Helium [Il se tient encore debout] / Mary [He still remains standing] Forgiveness [Plus j’égare la mémoire] / [The more I lose memory] Ioanna Carlsen / 365 (Tr. Jason Weiss) Over and Over Tune Rick Barot / 382 Mary Ann Caws (Tr.) / 68 Montale Four poems by Jacques Roubaud Tahar Ben Jelloun / 117 Andrée Chedid / 24 [L’eau n’aime ce pays que de temps Remous / Eddies en temps] / [Water only loves In this Street this land once in a while] Face to Face [The man who knows the secret of (Tr. by Annie Finch) the desert ] [Sounds from the distant world] William Cliff / 106 (Tr. by Margaret Furniss) From Autobiographie / From Autobiography Maxianne Berger (Tr.) / 64 (Tr. by Alfred Corn) Four poems by Marie-Claire Bancquart Danielle Cohn (Tr.) / 102 Four poems by Gabrielle Althen Wendell Berry / 269 Why Billy Collins / 181 They The Movies Dust No Time How To Be a Poet The Genius POETRY | André du Bouchet / 26 Threesome Lettre / Letter Stone or Water Alfred Corn (Tr.) / 106 Swiftness One poem by William Cliff (Tr. by Hoyt Rogers) Dawn M. Cornelio (Tr.) / 136 K. E. Duffin / 255 One poem by Jean-Michel Bronze Age Helmet Maulpoix Stuart Dybek / 385 Elizabeth R. Curry / 329 Chord Presence A Brief Look at Art Brent Hayes Edwards (Tr.) / 52 One poem by Edouard Glissant Francois de Comiére / 126 A Quoi tu penses? / What Are Claude Esteban / 78 You Thinking About? From Sur la demiére lande / Did You See the Starlings? From On the Last Heath (Tr. by John Montague) (Tr. by Andrew Shields) Paul de Roux / 91 Paul Fattaruso (Tr. with Alex La rue profonde / The Deep Street Phillips) / 16 The Rain One poem by Pierre Martory The Day’s Labor Winter Sky (Tr. with Alex The Cold Again Phillips) / 314 The Invisible Layer One poem by Pierre Martory (Tr. by Stephen Romer) (Tr. with Alex Michel de Smet / 6 Phillips) / 383 Le Point du jour / Break of Day One poem by Pierre Martory (Tr. by Geoffrey Brock) Julie Fay (Tr.) / 125 Michel Deguy / 62 One poem by Guy Goffette [Tout Polyphonix] / [All Polyphonix] Annie Finch (Tr.) / 24 (Tr. by John Montague) Three poems by Andrée Chedid Philippe Delaveau / 129 Robert Fink / 317 Matin d’hiver / Winter Morning Miss Emily Night Blessings Summertime Chris Forhan / 381 The Voice ofS ummer Late Winter Rain (Tr. by Ellen Hinsey) Dominique Fourcade / 98 Louis-René des Foréts / 12 Braille manque de mains / From Ostinato / From Ostinato Braille Misses Hands (Tr. by Ela Kotkowska- (Tr. by Cole Swensen) Atkinson) Michael Dobberstein / 191 Margaret Furniss (Tr.) / 117 Disappearing Act Three poems by Tahar Ben Jelloun Heather Dohollau / 30 3 Poémes du Purgatoire / 3 Poems Lorand Gaspar / 34 of Purgatory La Maison prés de la mer (2) / [Matter of Light] House by the Sea (2) (Tr. by Hoyt Rogers) (Tr. by Peter Riley) Susan Donnelly / 316 Sandra M. Gilbert / 309 Pictures from the Floating World February and the Oak Moths CONTENTS OF VOLUME 177 Elton Glaser / 201 Philippe Jaccottet / 40 Postpartum Blues From Lerons / From Leaming . . . (Tr. by Marc Treharne) Edouard Glissant / 52 Pour Mycéa / For Mycea Alan Jenkins (Tr.) / 2 (Tr. by Brent Hayes Edwards) One poem by Julien Gracq Guy Goffette / 125 Gil Jouanard / 94 Les Corbeaux / Crows Coda de l’itinérant figé / Coda of (Tr. by Julie Fay) the Fixed Itinerant (Tr. by Geoffrey Brock) Albert Goldbarth / 258 Stationed Charles Juliet / 74 [Quand tu ne savais rien] / [When you knew nothing] Julien Gracq / 2 [The one who has not gone] From Prose de |’étrangére / [When the eye has finally made From Prose for the Foreign One itself clear] (Tr. by Alan Jenkins) [Often when he was advancing] (Tr. by Louis Simpson) Jeffrey Greene / 254 Beginnings Hédi Kaddour / 122 Verlaine / Verlaine Marilyn Hacker (Tr.) / 84 The Nightmare Three poems by Claire Malroux Six-Thirty (Tr. by Marilyn Hacker) (Tr.) / 88 Three poems by Vénus Khoury- Richard Katrovas / 326 Ghata Love Poem for an Enemy Elegy for Robert L. Jones (Tr.) / 120 Two poems by André Velter Vénus Khoury-Ghata / 88 [Inutile de ressemeler nos livres] / (Tr.) / 122 [No use re-soling our books] Three poems by Hédi Kaddour [She used to throw her old crockery at the moon] Susan Hahn / 190 [We made fires which licked the Her Purse, At the Winter Solstice clouds’ chasubles] (Tr. by Marilyn Hacker) Ellen Hinsey (Tr.) / 129 Four poems by Philippe Ela Kotkowska-Atkinson (Tr.) / 12 Delaveau One poem by Louis-René des Foréts Christian Hubin / 114 [Couloir dans le crépuscule] / Jacqueline Lapidus (Tr.) / 48 [Corridor in the dusk] Three poems by Geneviéve Pastre [Networks under the forests] [Corroded substances] (Tr.) / 132 One poem by Geneviéve Huttin (Tr. Jason Weiss) Mercedes Lawry / 192 Geneviéve Huttin / 132 Like Symbols, the Lines From Paris, Litanie des cafés / Vigil From Paris, Litany of the Cafés (Tr. by Jacqueline Lapidus) David Liveweil / 336 Vernal Song Luisa Igloria / 246 Note to Her Translator John Lundberg / 203 Cuauhtemoc Venetian Tenebrae Fireworks, Harborfest Goldwasser Daniel Lusk / 265 Pigalle Sketches Benjamin Ivry (Tr.) / 60 Crowd of Angels One poem by Jude Stéfan Only Flowers POETRY Claire Malroux / 84 (Tr.) / 62 Aubade / Alba One poem by Michel Deguy Pedestrian Prehistoric (Tr.) / 78 (Tr. by Marilyn Hacker) One poem by Claude Esteban Robert Marteau / 44 Jean Nordhaus / 187 [Je consens que tout s’efface] / Earth Music [I consent that everything vanishes] [Qui froisse a Delphes le laurier] / D. Nurkse / 379 [Who crumples the laurel at War on the Ants Delphi] [Les plantes et les planétes] / Robert Pack / 259 [Plants and planets] Remains (Tr. by John Montague) Distance Eagle Pierre Martory / 16 Arowhead Mairie du quinziéme / Town Hall, Fifteenth Arrondissement Elise Partridge / 194 Bastille / Bastille Pauper, Boston, 1988 (Tr. by John Ashbery) Burkettville, Maine / 16 Linda Pastan / 184 Fragment Muse (Tr. by Alex Phillips and Paul Fattaruso) Geneviéve Pastre / 48 [Je suis le navigateur maladroit] / / 314 [I am the awkward navigator] Apres Tout [Yesterday morning] (Tr. by Alex Phillips and Paul [I plunged] Fattaruso) (Tr. by Jacqueline Lapidus) / 383 Alex Phillips (Tr. with Paul The Rats Fattaruso) / 16 (Tr. by Alex Phillips and Paul One Poem by Pierre Martory Fattaruso) (Tr. with Paul Cleopatra Mathis / 199 Fattaruso) / 314 Living Here One poem by Pierre Martory Demeter the Pilgrim (Tr. with Paul Jean-Michel Maulpoix / 136 Fattaruso) / 383 From Une Histoire de bleu / One poem by Pierre Martory From A Story of Blue (Tr. by Dawn M. Cornelio) Patrick Phillips / 378 The Doe W.S. Merwin / 243 January Jacquelyn Pope / 252 To Echo Alice After The Night Plums Carol Potter / 196 / 306 It’s a Free World To the Consolations of Philosophy The Big Fork To Absence To Lingering Regrets Christopher Presfield / 384 How It Is Pascale Monnier / 142 L’Eté / Summer Jacques Réda / 56 (Tr. by Cole Swensen) Un Citadin / A City Dweller A Drama in Luxembourg Gardens John Montague (Tr.) / 44 The Errand Three poems by Robert Marteau (Tr. by Andrew Shields) CONTENTS OF VOLUME 177 Peter Riley (Tr.) / 34 A. E. Stallings / 318 One poem by Lorand Gaspar Implements from the “Tomb of the Poet” Hoyt Rogers (Tr.) / 20 The Doll House One poem by Yves Bonnefoy (Tr.) / 26 Timothy Steele / 204 Three poems by André du Toward the Winter Solstice Bouchet / 370 (Tr.) / 30 Faustina Two poems by Heather Dohollau Jude Stéfan / 60 Stephen Romer (Tr.) / 91 Omnes Scribebant Six poems by Paul de Roux (Tr. by Benjamin Ivry) J. Allyn Rosser / 210 Heidy Steidlmayer / 323 Lullaby for the Second Millennium Talking with the Dead Knife-Sharpener’s Song w<tguaancigionam + 989 Sugar Dada Jack Stewart / 263 Jacques Roubaud / 68 Mirror Parmi beaucoup de poémes / In the Luxembourg Gardens Among Many Poems Amsterdam Street Myrna Stone / 320 Dream of February 11, 19— Wild Onion Dream of August 17, 19— Epistle to the Dear Departed (Tr. by Mary Ann Caws) Vern Rutsala / 373 Joyce Sutphen / 251 W II This Body James Sacré / 110 Cole Swensen (Tr.) / 98 Le Renard est un mot qui ruse / One poem by Dominique The Fox Is a Cunning Word Fourcade (Tr. by David Ball) Hugh Seidman / 308 (Tr.)/ 142 I Do Not Know Myself One poem by Pascalle Monnier Andrew Shields (Tr.) / 56 Paula Tatarunis / 371 Three poems by Jacques Réda Domesticated To a Sniper (Tr.) / 126 Two poems by Frangois de Corniére Marc Treharne (Tr.) / 40 One poem by Philippe Jaccottet Louis Simpson (Tr.) / 74 Four poems by Charles Juliet André Velter / 120 Bastille / Bastille Floyd Skloot / 257 Sand and Ashes Private Room (Tr. by Marilyn Hacker) Charlie Smith / 331 Modem Ant Connie Wanek / 253 On Not Buying a Cell Phone After Us Refuge Address to the Ex Jason Weiss (Tr.) / 72 In Praise of Regret Two poems by Silvia Baron Supervielle ee YY Military Mind (Tr.) / 114 R. T. Smith / 206 Three poems by Christian Hubin Cross Garden Brightwood Jane Yeh / 325 Scavenging the Wall Revenger’s Tragedy POETRY CONTRIBUTORS OF PROSE Bill Christophersen / 217 John Taylor / 147 Classical Virtues—and Vices From Intimism to the Poetics of Vita Nova, by Louise Gliick “Presence”: Reading The Dreamhouse, by Tom Sleigh Contemporary French Poetry The Surface of Last Scattering, by Gray Jacobik / 271 Reign of Snakes, by Robert Short Reviews Wrigley An Honest Answer, by Ginger Actual Air, by David Berman Andrews Night Battle, by William Logan Lifelines: Selected Poems 1950-1999, by Philip Booth Bruce F. Murphy / 211 Pallbearers Envy the One Who Seamus Heaney’s Beowulf Rides, by Stephen Dobyns Beowulf, tr. by Seamus Heaney On the Bus with Rosa Parks, by Rita Dove ee The Art of the Lathe, by B. H. Verse Versus Poetry Fairchild The Father of the Predicaments, by The Devil’s Child, by Fleda Heather McHugh Brown Jackson Weather Permitting, by Dennis O'Driscoll / 386 Unarmed and Dangerous, by Wyatt Seeking the Self, Seeking Prunty Beyond the Self Happy Family, by Jane Shore With All Five Senses, by Hans W. Learning Human, by Les Murray Cohn. Tr. by Frederick G. Cohn David Orr / 391 Short Reviews David Yezzi / 337 Boss Cupid, by Thom Gunn “A Passion Joined to Courtesy What Was Lost, by Herbert Morris and Art” Last Blue, by Gerald Stern Mayflies: New Poems and Zoo, by Alice Friman Translations, by Richard Wilbur Robert B. Shaw / 345 Responses: Prose Pieces, 1953-1976, The Muse at Loose Ends by Richard Wilbur BOOKS REVIEWED Ginger Andrews / 271 Rita Dove / 271 An Honest Answer On the Bus with Rosa Parks (v. John Taylor) (v. John Taylor) David Berman / 217 B. H. Fairchild / 271 The Art of the Lathe Actual Air (v. John Taylor) (v. Bill Christophersen) Alice Friman / 391 Philip Booth / 271 Zoo Lifelines: Selected Poems 1950-1999 (v. David Orr) (v. John Taylor) Louise Gliick / 217 Hans W. Cohn / 386 Vita Nova With All Five Senses. Tr. by (v. Bill Christophersen) Frederick G. Cohn (v. John Taylor) Thom Gunn / 391 Boss Cupid (v. David Orr) Stephen Dobyns / 271 Pallbearers Envy the One Who Seamus Heaney (Tr.) / 211 Rides Beowulf (v. John Taylor) (v. Bruce Murphy) CONTENTS OF VOLUME 177 Fleda Brown Jackson / 271 Wyatt Prunty / 279 The Devil’s Child Unarmed and Dangerous (v. John Taylor) (v. Bruce F. Murphy) Gray Jacobik / 217 Jane Shore / 279 The Surface of Last Scattering Happy Family (v. Bill Christophersen) (v. Bruce F. Murphy) William Logan / 217 Night Battle Tom Sleigh / 217 (v. Bill Christophersen) The Dreamhouse (v. Bill Christophersen) Heather McHugh / 279 The Father of the Predicaments Gerald Stern / 391 (v. Bruce F. Murphy) Last Blue (v. David Orr) Herbert Morris / 391 What Was Lost Richard Wilbur / 337 (v. David Orr) Mayflies: New Poems and Translations Les Murray / 279 Responses: Prose Pieces, 1953-1976 Learning Human (v. Bruce F. Murphy) (v. David Yezzi) Dennis O'Driscoll / 279 Robert Wrigley / 217 Weather Permitting Reign of Snakes (v. Bruce F. Murphy) (v. Bill Christophersen)