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CONTENTS OF VOLUME 176 CONTRIBUTORS OF VERSE Philip Asaph / 81 Meredith Cole / 144 The Bad-Ass at Forty The Children Dream of a Whale Set In the Houses of the Rich Free Travels in the Desert Marvin Bell / 261 Sounds of the Resurrected Dead Billy Collins Man’s Footsteps #52 Today DC Berry / 129 Stephen Corey / 87 After Finding a One Hundred Dollar Poems of This Size Bill Mary Cornish / Neal Bowers / 213 Numbers Riverrain Revision Kenyotta Bradley Tom Disch / 342 A Boy’s Prayer Color in American History: An A Dream of the Castle Essay John Brehm / 256 K. Reynolds Dixon At Coney Island The Gauntlet Circle Scavengers Gregory Djanikian / 24 Mind | Body Matthew Brenneman / 324 Marco Polo at Finisterre Stephen Dunn Fragment from Rome Emperors Chokecherry Debra Bruce / 134 Annual Survivors’ Picnic Kevin Durkin This Time Last Year For the Birds Suzanne Buffam / 317 Dear Future, Michael Eilperin / 264 The Extra Brain Derick Burleson / 273 Umuzungu Wambere (First White Rhina P. Espaillat Man) P yé he Revised Ejo Alan Feldman / 136 Esther Cameron / 93 Contempoporraarryy American Poetry) Chopsticks The Back of the Building Turner Cassity / 78 Kristin Fogdall / 197 The Dueling Scar Demas, In Love With This Present World =e ee The Metrist at the Operetta Chris Forhan Exclusions Not of Rhyme Billet-Doux Michael Chitwood / 2 Faye George / 23 Transport in Early Spring The Charioteer roniRY Sandra M. Gilbert / 320 Elizabeth Katz / 143 What Extends Elegy for a Diver Mary Gilliland / 22 Susan Kelly-DeWitt / 10 Air Fifty-One 265 James Kimbrell / 341 Drenched ~ To Keats in October Elton Glaser / 5 Paul Lake / 263 Low and Delicious Martyr of Modernity Douglas Goetsch / 252 Julie Landau (Tr.) / 210 The First Present You Could Never Five Lyrics by Liu Yung Remember Giving Philip Levine / 311 Albert Goldbarth / 18 Call It Music Suitcase Song 1, I, 2000 Storms The Street With No Shop on the [Untitled] Comer Jason Gray / 270 Michael Lind / 200 The Snow Leopard When You Are Someone Else Certain Dark Rob Griffith / 199 The Cartographer Liu Yung / 210 Five Lyrics (Tr. by Julie Landau) Susan Hahn / 202 Anthem Joanie V. Mackowski / 8 Ants Victoria Hallerman / 254 Doll in a Suitcase Peter Makuck / 128 Pennywort, After the Storm John Hazard / 152 A Hopkins Rumble, 1999 Gerard Malanga / 333 The Nassau Loop Is No Longer Dennis Held / 3 Running Point of Disappearance Elise Hempel 276 Patrick Martin / 3333 4 The Stroke Ammistice Day, 1970 Daryl Hine / 215 Kevin McFadden / 146 Dies Nefastus Letters from a Nature Hike Elizabeth Holmes / 191 Joe-Anne McLaughlin-Carruth / 2 After a Yard Sale Night Court at Solomon’s Jacket Photograph Wesley McNair / 277 Jessica Hornik / 11 Massive Sightseeing with the Invisible Woman The Invisible Woman Continued Kevin Meaux / 28 The Garden Holly Hunt / 255 The Third Sister Considers Her Lack Joshua Mehigan / 27 ofA ppreciatiofno r Gritty Detail The Optimist HaJ in / 214 Judy Michaels / 206 Missed Time Lately It’s Been Too Much Trouble CONTENTS OF VOLUME 176 Andrew Mulvania / 88 Hugh Seidman / 141 Visitatiofno r the Neighbor Boy Hudson Far from Home, I Remember the Neighborhood and Joe Wolfe, Angela Shaw / 16 Gone After Sleep the Wild Moming Jack Myers / 20 Barry Silesky Now The Street Art Nahill / 267 David R. Slavitt Deaf Night at O’Donnell’s Repetition Solidarity Charlie Smith / 337 D. Nurkse / 193 Planting Morning Glories in October The Rapture Manmiage in the Infinite City Katherine Smith / 251 Belleville Jennifer O’Grady / 204 Habitation Gary Soto / 83 No Smoking, Please Joyce Carol Oates / 156 Minimum Wage Martin Johnson Heade’s The Coming Storm, 1859 Roberta Spear / 326 Contraband Brent Pallas / 322 The Kiss A Ruptured Eardrum A Simple Question Adrift Linda Pastan / 278 The Answering Machine A. E. Stallings / 272 The Modern Greek for “Nightmare” Ron Price / 70 Is “Ephialtes” First Story Michael Steffen David Ricks / 319 The Veggie Life Cantatfao r Anton Webern Richard Stern / 209 Len Roberts / 94 To Go With an Old Necklace The Silent Singer The List of Most Difficult Words Dolores Stewart / 66 The Old Medicine Song Robin Robertson / 269 Hide Judith Strasser / 331 The Rails, Removed Lisa Rosenberg / 323 Attica Lucien Stryk / 90 Drifting J. Allyn Rosser / 79 Street Boy Joyce Sutphen Homesteading Kay Ryan / 125 The Fabric of Life 187 Test Learming by Heart Two More, and Up Goes the Naming the Stars Donkey Barton Sutter / 154 George Scarbrough / 207 Night Fishing, Lake Poily Initial Revenant John Talbot / 158 Anachronisms It Was Over POETRY James Tate / 63 David Wagoner / 71 The Painter of the Night Thinking of What To Say Demigoddess That Child Right Conduct The Sick Child A Girl Playing in a Sandbox Richard Taylor / 195 An Inner Tour =f BF Mark Turcotte / 68 Lying in Ambush Battlefield Reflection G. C. Waldrep / 21 Apocatastasis Leslie Ullman / 338 Poem to My Animal Self Jeanne Murray Walker / 6 After the Tornado John Updike / 92 Saying Goodbye to Very Young Greg Williamson / 260 Children From Double Exposures ey fo To Two of My Characters Robert Wrigley / 153 Pura Vida Winterkill CONTRIBUTORS OF PROSE Paul Breslin / 159 David Orr / 286 Black Mountain Reunion Short Reviews A Guide to the Maximus Poems of Midnight Salvage, by Adrienne Rich Charles Olson, by George F. Elegy for the Departure, by Butterick Zbigniew Herbert Life & Death, by Robert Creeley Sea Level Zero, by Daniela Sands of the Well, by Denise Crasnaru Levertov Things and Flesh, by Linda Gregg This Great Unknowing: Last Poems, by Denise Levertov F. D. Reeve / 225 The Turning, by Hilda Morley Short Takes One Hand on the Wheel, by Dan The Collected Poems (excluding the Bellm Maximus poems), by Charles Justice, by Caroline Finkelstein Olson Midcentury, by Ben Howard The Collected Prose, by Charles Elegy for the Southern Drawl, by Olson Rodney Jones Selected Poems, by Charles Olson The Breakage, by Glyn Maxwell Dead Men’s Praise, by Jacqueline Thomas M. Disch / 279 Osherow The Anchorage, by Mark A Rand McNally for the Realms Wunderlich of Gold Deepstep Come Shining, by C. D. The Lives of the Poets, by Michael Wnght Schmidt Robert B. Shaw / 343 Ben Howard / 29 Prosody for the People The Sounds of Poetry: A Brief Secular and Sacred Guide, by Robert Pinsky Relations: New and Selected Poems, Rules for the Dance: A Handboofko r by Eamon Grennan Writing and Reading Metrical Straits, by Kenneth Koch Verse, by Mary Oliver Sacred Conversations, by Peter All the Fun’s in How You Say a Cooley Thing: An Explanation of Meter The Gatehouse Heaven, by James and Versification, by Timothy Kimbrell Steele CONTENTS OF VOLUME 176 Henry Taylor / 96 The House of Sages, by Philip Next-to-Last Things Terman Some Jazz a While: Collected Winter Hours, by Mary Oliver Poems, by Miller Williams Falling Out oft he Sky, by Deborah The Shape of the Journey: New and Pope oneted PPooeemmss, by y JiVirm — arrison : The Long Home, by Christian Short Racine Wiman Troubled Lovers in History: A Peg an Sequence of Poems, by Albert The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry pr , Handwriting, by Michael Ondaatje A Milan te Sie, og tang Se See Ruining the Picture, by Pimone Leslie Ullman / 216 Triplett Short Reviews Kore in Bloom, by Margaret The River Sound, by W. S. Holley Merwin Shells, by Craig Arnold BOOKS REVIEWED Craig Arnold / 40 Linda Gregg / 286 Shells Things and Flesh (v. David Yezzi) (v. David Orr) Dan Bellm / 225 Ez amon) G3rree nnan /2a : ; Oten.e BBHa.n d Re0 oen veth)e e Wheeele R(lvye. l atBRi eon>n s: HoNCw eawrr da)n \d Selected Poems Jim Harmison / 96 Wendell Berry / 96 The Shape of the Journey: New and The Selected Poems of Collected Poems (v. Henry Taylor) (v. Henry Taylor) George F. Butterick / 159 Zbigniew Herbert / 286 <i ss : say for the De , A Guide to the Maximus Poems of te — Charles Olson eS eee fy. Pp - (v. Paul Breslin) Margaret Holley / 40 Kore in Bloom Peter Cooley / 29 (v. David Yezzi) Sacred Conversations (v. Ben Howard) Ben Howard / 225 Midcentury Daniela Crasnaru / 286 (v. F. D. Reeve) Sea Level Zero : Rodney Jones / 225 (v. David Orr) Elegy for the Southern Drawl (v. F. D. Reeve) Robert Creeley / 159 Life & Death James Kimbrell / 29 (v. Paul Breslin) The Gatehouse Heaven (v. Ben Howard) Caroline Finkelstein / 225 Justice Kenneth Koch / 29 (v. F. D. Reeve) Straits (v. Ben Howard) Albert Goldbarth / 40 Denise Levertov / 159 Troubled Lovers in History: A Sands of the Well Sequence of Poems This Great Unknowing: Last Poems (v. David Yezzi) (v. Paul Breslin) POETRY Glyn Maxwell / 225 Adrienne Rich / 286 The Breakage Midnight Salvage (v. F. D. Reeve) (v. David Orr) W.S. Merwin / 216 MaryJo Salter / 40 The River Sound A Kiss in Space (v. Leslie Ullman) (v. David Yezzi) Hilda Morley / 159 Michael Schmidt / 279 The Tuming The Lives of the Poets (v. Paul Breslin) (v. Thomas M. Disch) Mary Oliver / 216 Winter Hours Timothy Steele / 343 (v. Leslie Ullman) All the Fun’s in How You Say a Thing: An Explanation of Meter and Versification eee / 343 (v. Robert B. Shaw) ulesfo r the Dance: A Handboofko r Writing and Reading Metrical Verse (v. Robert B. Shaw) Philip Terman / 216 The House of Sages charles Olson / 159 (v. Leslie Ullman) The Collected Poems (excluding the Maximus poems) Pimone Triplett / 40 The Collected Prose Ruining the Picture Selected Poems (v. David Yezzi) (v. Paul Breslin) Miller Williams / 96 Michael Ondaatje / 96 Some Jazz a While: Collected Poems Handwriting (v. Henry Taylor) (v. Henry Taylor) Christian Wiman / 96 Jacqueline Osherow / 225 The Long Home Dead Men’s Praise (v. Henry Taylor) (v. F. D. Reeve) Robert Pinsky / 343 C. D. Wright / 225 The Sounds of Poetry: A Brief Guide Deepstep Come Shining (v. Robert B. Shaw) (v. F. D. Reeve) Deborah Pope / 216 Mark Wunderlich / 225 Falling Out oft he Sky The Anchorage (v. Leslie Ullman) (v. F. D. Reeve) sw sesenenen