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CONTENTS OF VOLUME 181 CONTRIBUTORS OF VERSI Diane Ackerman Neal Bowers Like Your Face Near Myth Kim Addonizio / 144 Harriet Brown Blues for Dante Alighieri Shell Dick Allen / 2 Joyce S 3rown The Adult Secti Eating Dust John Ashbery / 4 Jean Burden On His Reluctance To Take Down Q( ueverr) the Christmas Ornament Too Much Sleep Is Bad 1p pointment Wendy Barker / 199 Old 1g he Lost Book Thunder Catherine Carter The Fall Steven Barza / 275 Personal at the Podium Turner Cassity 16 The Grateful Minim Marvin Bell The Papers Patricia Clark Vastiff Billy Collins / 17 Poem (“It’s like writing a short letter’) Wendell Berry Writing in the Afterlife Sabbaths 2001 Carl Dennis 1d Sophie Cabot Black A Colleague Confe T he Lake a 341 For the Taking Master of Metaphor Next Life Michael Blumenthal / 9 I Think Constantly of Those Who Tom Disch Were Truly Great Ars Poetica Robert Bly Gregory Djyanikian / 21 Brahms First Efforts ie eS aa Stephen Dobyns / 23 When I Am With You Aphorisms When the Master Is Untied How Thoreau Lived Matt Donovan / 331 Shapes of Stone and Prayer Philip Booth / 11 Line The Professor’s Final Address Rita Dove / 24 David Bottoms / 13 “I have been a stanger in a strange Melville in the Bass Boat land” POERTRY 317 ee ae Reverie in Open Air Essay on Departure Stephen Dunn / 25 Susan Hahn / 30 Sisyphus and the Sudden Lightness The Pity of Punctuation Jeffrey Harrison / 215 Poem for Roland ius’s Affair hus’s Acceptance Ava Leavell Haymon / 218 louse Was Quiet God of Luck Dismantling the House Festival of Lights Frederick Feirstein / 346 Daryl Hine Immortality Canzone Elliot Figman Ellen Hinsey / 34 The Room Interdiction Charlene Fix 3 28 John Hollander Persephone and the Light Entwining Robert Friend / 344 a I Re sid 134 The Last Year Dead Animals In the Graveyard The Figure in the Face White Dream Day Ben Howard / 36 Prose Should Be Transparent Reginald Gibbons (Tr. with Charles Richard Howard / 37 Segal) / 263 {nother Translator [Two poems by Sophokles Susan Elizabeth Howe / 152 _ (Tr. with Charles 1 Large, American Gallinaceous Bird 64) 3258 Your Luck Is About To Change One poem by Sophokles Winifred Hughes Sandra M. Gilbert / 26 Dyslexi 1fternoon Walk: The Sea Ranch X. J. Kennedy Albert Goldbarth / 27 Geometry Zero: Terror / Lullaby Galway Kinnell Laurence Goldstein / 28 The Stone Table War Babies, Sixty Years On John Kinsella Sarah Gorham Mulga Parrots Juncture Carolyn Kizer / 41 Andrew Grace / 261 After Horace Fault Kenneth Koch / 42 Eamon Grennan A Momentary Longing To Hear Sad Shard Advice from One Long Dead Marilyn Hacker / : Yusef Komunyakaa / 43 Sonnet on a Line from Vénus From Autobiography of My Alter Ego Khoury-Ghata (“Summers when Mother & ! ...’’) CONTE NTS OF VOLUME Kindness Maxine Kumin / 45 Last Days Alissa Leigh / 141 Bod) Atomic Love Poem Brad Leithauser Routes Hailey Leithauser 8 Philip Levine New Year's My Brother William Logan Song Jacquelyn Malone Before the Fall J. D. McClatchy Pibroch Joe-Anne M 1n Atheist Jacqueline Mcl Box of Winter Sandra McPherso1 Virtue Stud) Rennie McQuilkin Iscension Brueghe l’s Playe W.S. Merwin / 52 To the Blank Space John Montague idam’s Appl Pilgrims Bruce F. Murphy {nthology Knots & Splice Les Murray / $4 Leen n RRoobbe rts The Hanging Gard Carol Muske-Dukes / 5 Pattiann Roger Love Song God and His P POEL i RY 2) 437 Charlie Smith The Passing of the Wise Men Arrangements Feeding Our Ancient Ancestors Keeping Up Attachment Kay Ryan / 68 After Haydn Backward Miracle What This Stands For Still the Moment Intends To Replace Us David St. John / 69 The Light Shining Now From The Face (XV) Dave Smith / 76 ee ee, Coming Down in Ohio F rom The Face (XIV) R. T. Smith George Scarbrough Neglect Letter to Shi-te W. D. Snodgrass Pacemaker The Dead Sophokles / 263 [ae eee 196 [Ode on the House of Labdakos] Shi-te’s New Year Prayer [Ode to Eros] On the Third Anniversary of Shi-te’s (Tr. by Reginald Gibbons and Death Charles Segal) James Scruton / 135 325 Crossing the Days 1 Page from Kells (Tr. by Reginald Gibbons and Charles Segal Charles Segal (Tr. with Reginald Gibbons) / 263 Gary Soto / 81 [Two poems by Sophokles Dirt c (Tr. with Reginald A. E. Stallings Gibbons) / 325 Sine Qua Non One poem by Sophokles Eleanor Stanford / 143 Robert B. Shaw On a Line by Petrarch Waste Timothy Steele / 82 = 155 The Middle Years Waiting Room Out of Character Stephen Stepanchev / 159 R>e mem> berin’ g Charles Simic Autumn Sky Gerald Stern / 84 Matins a 276 The Prompter Lucien Stryk / 85 Come Winter Gargoyles Voyage to Cythera Se I$ Maurya Simon / 137 New Year’s Eve St. Jerome in Rome St. Jerome’s Sanctum Joyce Sutphen St. Jerome in Decline Ever After David R. Slavitt / 73 James Tate / 86 Dying Bird Half-Eaten CONTENTS OF VOLUME 181 cms ___ / 278 The Shadowman Bird Brain At the Clothesline Very Late, But Not Too Late Jerald Winakur / 258 A Paper Anniversary at 5 Philip Terman / 212 My Mother’s Other Life David Wojahn The Famous Russian-Jewish Woman Scrabble with Mattheu Poet Termanovsky Charles Wright John Tranter Portrait of the Artist in a Prospect of Whisper Stone Se ee ee 154 Manikin de Vin David Wagoner / 88 Robert W rigley 93 For a Student Sleeping in a Poetr, Do You Love Me? Workshop Ronald Wallace Smackdowt CONTRIB TORS OF PROSI David Baker / 285 34 Heaven and Earth Short Reviews Shadowo f Heaven, by Ellen Bryant Against Love Poetry, by Eavan Voigt Boland Topsoil Road, by Robert Morgan Doctor Jazz, by Hayden Carruth Homesick, by Roger Fanning 1 Short History of Snakes, by Alan Twice Removed, by Ralph Angel The Golden Years of the Fourth Jenkins Dimension, by Katharine Coles he Evening Sun, by David Lehman Sally Connolly / 16 Short Reviews John Taylor / 221 Subterranean, by Jill Bialosky Short Reviews Changeable Thunder, by David Parthenopi Net ind Selected Baker Poems, by Michael Waters The Painted Bed, by Donald Hall Earthly, by Michael McFee Rising Venus, by Kelly Cherry Early and Late: Selected Poems, by What Do We Know: Poems Donald Petersen Prose Poems, by Mary Oliver Cairo Traffic, by Lloyd Schwartz Bruce F. Murphy / 280 Roman Fever, by Marcus Cafagna Eternity’s Long Now That Other Side of Things, by The Collected Poems of Kathleen Arthur Gregor Raine Pursuit, by Erica Funkhouser POETRY BOOKS REVIEWED Ralph Angel / 285 Donald Hall 160 Twice Removed The Painted Bed (v. David Baker) (v. Sally Connolly) David Baker / 160 Alan Jenkins / 347 Changeable Thunder A Short History of Snakes (v. Sally Connolly) (v. Bruce F. Murphy) Jill Bialosky / 160 David Lehman / 347 Subterranean The Evening Sun (v. Sally Connolly) (v. Bruce F. Murphy) Eavan Boland / 347 Michael McFee / 221 Against Love Poetry Eartl ly (v. Bruce F. Murphy) (v. John Taylor) Marcus Cafagna / 221 Robert Morgan / 285 Roman Fever Topsoil Road (v. John Taylor) (v. David Baker) Hayden Carruth / 347 Mary Oliver / 160 Doctor Jazz What Do We Know: Poems and (v. Bruce F. Murphy) Prose Poems (v. Sally Connolly) Kelly Cherry / 160 Rising Venus Donald Petersen / 221 (v. Sally Connolly) Early and Late: Selected Poems (v. John Taylor) Katharine Coles / 285 The Golden Years of the Fourth Kathleen Raine / 280 Dimension The Collected Poems of . . . (v. David Baker) (v. Bruce F. Murphy) Roger Fanning / 285 Lloyd Schwartz / 22 Homesick Cairo Traffic v. David Baker) (v. John Taylor Erica Funkhouser Ellen Bryant Voigt / 285 Pursuit Shadow of Heaven v. John Taylor) v. David Baker) Arthur Gregor / 221 Michael Waters / 221 That Other Side of Things ParthenopiI: New and Selected Poems John Taylor) (v. John Taylor