Table Of Content

INDEX Contents of Volume 71, 1997 Acker Camp, Jennie Parallel Tracks, story W 132 Acree Carroll, Carolyn Grits, poem Su 72 ahron taub, yermiyahu father grocer, poem Sp 203 tsholnt, poem Sp 203 a house calling, poem Sp 202 Alexie, Sherman Theology, poem Su 5 Wake, poem Su 8 Toward Conception, poem Su 9 Urban Indian Sonnet: Night Shift, poem Su 7 How It Happens, poem Su 6 Alkalay-Gut, Karen The War, poem Su 25 Duration and Expanse, poem Su 26 Ansay, A. Manette Church Suppers, poem W 76 Apotheker, Alison When Spring Comes to the Alpine Tundra, poem F 163 Aronowitz, E. D. Learning to Read, poem W 94 My Grandmother Pearl From Kalenkovich, poem W 94 Arthurs, Alberta On Friendship with Maxine Kumin, essay W 111 Barrax, Gerald Pittsburgh, 1948: The Music Teacher, poem F 20 Trio for Two Voices and Bass Clarinet, poem F 23 Surreal Dreams: After Watching the Discovery Channel, poem F 21 Barton, Bruce Repose, poem Su 66 Beasley, Bruce Leper’s Lily, poem Su 91 Becker, Robin I'm Telling! Secrecy and Shame in One Jewish- American Family, essay Sp 210 In the Days of Awe, poem F 25 Behar, Ruth Your House, poem Sp 226 My House, poem Sp 227 Shaken After Receiving a Letter from a Miami Poet with a Mean Tongue Who Doesn’t Want a Bridge to Cuba, poem Sp 229 Behrendt, Stephen The Dance at St. Gabriel's Felix Stefanile, review F 174 Mere Mortals Terese Svoboda, review F 174 Sensual Math Alice Fulton, review F 174 My World, My Fingerhold, My Bygod Apple Neva Hacker, review F 174 Beliles, Buck Vanity, essay W 98 Bell, Marvin Sounds of the Resurrected Dead Man’s Footsteps #3, poem Sp 116 Sounds of the Resurrected Dead Man’s Footsteps #6, poem Sp 118 Ben-Tov, S. Ashes, poem Sp 196 How Your Father and I Built 'srael’s First Rocket, poem Sp 191 The Last Minute, poem Sp 194 192 Prairie Schooner Bennett, Bruce Filling in the Blanks, poem F 173 Berger, L. R. Coming Back to Say Goodbye, poem Su 96 The Daily Work of Forgetting, poem Su 95 The Birds That Are Not in Our Hands, poem Su 97 Best Tinsley, Molly The Only Way to Ride, story F 30 Blumenthal, Michael Visit to Majdanek, essay Sp 66 The Silent Synagogue of Kézeg, essay Sp 64 Lukacs Fiirdé: December 31, 1995, poem Sp 70 Bosley, Cynthia The Solemn People Living There, poem F 165 Brant, Beth Simple Songs Vickie Sears, review W 165 Beneath My Heart Janice Gould, review W 165 Brown, Harriet Like a Mother, poem F 51 Standing in the Dark, poem F 55 Sabbath Dinner, poem F 52 Our Last Secret, poem F 54 Bugeja, Michael J. Assemblies of God, poem F 164 Byers, Michael A Fair Trade, story Su 126 Cader, Teresa A Primer, poem W 127 Fists, poem W 128 Cantrell, Charles Silage, poem Su 108 God and the Windshield Washer, poem Su 107 Chen, Lisa Ovulation Triptych, poem Su 69 The Keeper, poem Su 71 Chess, Richard First Day, poem Sp 187 Correspondence, poem Sp 188 Ball, poem Sp 190 Between Wars, poem Sp 189 Christina, Martha At Battleground State Park, poem W 65 Delft Haven, Cottage #4, poem W 64 Year of the Horse, poem W 66 Citino, David O Paradise William Trowbridge, review Su 172 Coffel, Scott Mountain Jews, poem Sp 153 God's Double, poem Sp 152 Cohen, Nancy Dr. Steiner, poem Su 77 Collins, Robert The Curé of Ars, poem W 53 The Dominic Savio Club, poem W 54 Collins, Martha Vacant Lots, poem W 5 Some Things Words Can Do, poem W 5 Cowser, Bob Jr. Portrait of My Body Philip Lopate, review F 186 Daniels, Jim Letting the Grounds Settle, poem Su 102 Ornamental Crabapple, poem Su 104 World News Tonight, poem Su 106 Davis, Cortney Girl Hurt E. J. Miller Laino, review F 189 Davis, Ellen Winter Numbers: Poems Marilyn Hacker, review F 184 Selected Poems: 1965-1990 Marilyn Hacker, review F 184 Der-Hovanessian, Diana How My Mother Was Cured of Heart Disease, poem W 72 Company Outing, poem W 73 The Strange Longing, poem by Shavarsh Nartouni W 71 Derricotte, Toi Imperfect Thirst Galway Kinnell, review Su 167 Duhamel, Denise Exquisite Minority, poem W 87 Exquisite Majority, poem W 88 Exquisite Independent, poem W 87 Exquisite Encumbent, poem W 89 Little Women, poem W 91 Jane Eyre, poem W 92 Feigelson Chase, Naomi Gittel’s Fast, poem Sp 204 The Interrogation, poem Sp 205 Finkelstein, Norman from Passing Over, poem 200 Fogland, Dennis J. Difficult Things, poem Su 159 Foster, Gwendolyn Audrey Cultural Studies and Cultural Value John Frow, review W 176 Film, Politics, and Gramsci Marcia Landy, review W 176 Disturbing Pleasures: Learning Popular Culture Henry A. Giroux, review W 176 Fox, Faulkner Housekeeping, poem Su 166 Lucy, poem Su 165 Friedman, Paula Possum Dream, poem W 122 Frost, Carol Heroin, poem W 25 Where, poem W 23 Lilies!, poem W 24 Burdock, poem W 26 With Muse, poem W 25 Gibb, Robert from Elegies for the Trees, poem W 145 Goldstein, Rebecca The Secret of My Art, story Su 85 Gifts of the Last Night, story Sp 172 Goodman, Diane Junior High, poem W 75 Gorenberg, Gershom Daughter’s Song, poem W 162 The Lexicon of Longing, poem W 163 Gorlin, Deborah The Bypass, poem F 144 Greenberg, Alvin trouble, poem Sp 243 immigrants, poem Sp 242 de rerum natura, poem Sp 241 the old country, poem Sp 240 introduction to poems, introduction Sp 239 to the translator: 3, poem Sp 241 Hacker, Marilyn Squares and Courtyards, poem Sp 13 Hadas, Rachel Reflex of Summer, poem F 18 The Beam, poem F 16 Real Life, poem F 17 The Search, poem F 19 Halperin, Mark Karaites of Vilnius, poem Sp 75 The Escape, poem Sp 76 The Second Coming, poem Sp 74 Harris, Norman Y. Bronchitis, poem Sp 51 Ikey, poem Sp 51 April 1, 1924, poem Sp 53 All Stars, poem Sp 52 My Hero, poem Sp 52 194 Prairie Schooner Haskins, Lola Words, poem F 15 Remedy, poem F 14 Winnowing the True, poem F 14 Hegi, Urgula The Longing for One Leader, interview Su 10 A Town Like Ours, story F 5 Helfgott Hyett, Barbara Wartime, poem Sp 105 On the Edge of the Twenty-first Century, poem Sp 106 Hemley, Robin Jinx, essay Sp 260 Herlands, E. Ward A Flame-colored Flush, poem F 73 Like Asking Czar Nicholas II, poem F 75 It Was Just a Stopping-off Job, poem F 74 Hicok, Bob Textbook Case, poem Su 75 Hirschhorn, Norbert Number Our Days, poem F 71 Holden, Jonathan Ghost Ship Mary Kinzie, review W 168 Materialism Jorie Graham, review W 168 Invisible Horses Patricia Goedicke, review W 168 Holmes, Janet Depressive Episode, poem Su 74 Ignatow, David The Hebrew Lesson, poem Sp 29 For Rose, poem Sp 28 A Brief Biog, poem Sp 27 For Johannes Edfelt, poem Sp 26 Christmas Eve, poem Sp 25 Innocenti, Debra The Dying Room, poem F 83 Accidents, poem F 84 Johnson, Linnea Unmarked Grave: Block A, Grave 1280, Graceland Cemetery, Chicago, poem W 157 Joseph, Allison Pure Pop, poem F 87 Numbers, poem F 85 Kamenetz, Rodger The Broken Tablets, poem Sp 238 Gabriel's Palace, poem Sp 237 Grandfather Clause, poem Sp 236 Karlin, Wayne Lizard Wine, story W 7 Keller, Tsipi A Chance Meeting on the Street, poem by T. Carmi Su 121 Good Manners, poem by T. Carmi Su 119 Survivor's Monologue, poem by T. Carmi Su 120 Kercheval, Jesse Lee Glimmerglass, poem W 30 Kitchen, Judith Fred Astaire’s Hands, essay F 89 Klepfisz, Irena The Legacy, essay Sp 7 Knight, Elizabeth The End of Winter, poem F 145 Koestenbaum, Phyllis Lost Manuscript, poem W 117 My Father Arguing, poem W 120 Kohler, Sandra Dreaming Around the Solstice, poem Su 160 Kooser, Ted Anne & Alpheus: 1842-1882 Joe Survant, review W 175 Kopple, K. A., trans from Night and Words, poem by Mercedes Roffé W 130 Kreger Stark, Ellen Grandfather Says, poem Su 43 Krim, Nancy Blossoming Plum, poem W 96 Tumbling Out of Eden, poem W 97 Index 195 Krygowski, Nancy Living Again, poem F 148 Suitcase of My Life, poem F 146 Krysl, Marilyn Blood and Milk Sharon Solwitz, review W 180 Kussi, Peter Dramatis Personae, story W 56 Leonin, Mia Drought, poem F 166 Birth of a Revolutionary, poem F 167 Lesser, Rika Subtexts, poem F 134 Leventhal, Ann Z. Oh Abraham, poem Sp 153 The Day I Watched Dead Guys Dancing, poem Sp 155 Lindsay, Sarah Where Thieves Break In and Steal, poem Su 29 Macdonald, Cynthia Miriam’s Grandmother, poem Sp 16 Singing Miriam’s Lament, poem Sp 17 Maps and Globes, poem Sp 18 Vermeer’s Lady Reading at an Open Window, poem Sp 20 Casual Neglects, poem Sp 19 Jesus Returns, poem Sp 23 Mandelbaum, Paul Eclipse, story Su 50 Manilla, Marie Amnesty, story W 32 Mann, Jeff Possession, poem F 24 Marks, Gigi Milk, poem Su 82 October, poem Su 80 One to the Other, poem Su 78 Space, poem Su 79 McDonald, Walter Uncle Edward and the Bass Lake, poem F 100 Fathers and Sons, poem F 99 Meek, Sandra The Way We Used to Believe, poem Su 124 Mergentime Levi, Toni Fishing for Meteors, poem Su 67 Mirskin, Jerry Bronx Park East, poem Sp 54 Happiness, poem Sp 55 Grace, poem Sp 58 Early in the book of brothers and sisters, poem Sp 57 Morris, Gregory L. Wild Game Frank Bergon, review Su 176 Moskowitz, Faye Peace in the House, story Sp 93 Novakovich, Josip Literary Tombs, essay Su 110 Obradovi¢, Biljana D. For Your Souls, poem F 104 The Belt, poem F 105 Before Granddad’s 88th Birthday Feast, poem F 107 Home at Last, God Almighty, Home at Last, poem F 109 The Essence of Life, poem F 101 Advice, poem F 112 Pinch Me, poem F 103 The Opiate, poem F 111 Stains, poem F 102 On the Mostar Bridge, poem F 110 Oness, Elizabeth Quiet After Fighting, poem W 125 The Frail Harmonic, poem W 124 Ostriker, Alicia Tearing the Poem Up and Eating It, poem Sp 47 Diaspora, poem Sp 50 196 Prairie Schooner Pacernick, Gary Interview with Marge Piercy, interview W 82 Paiz, Anabella S., trans. You Want Me White, poem by Alfonsina Storni F 171 Papell, Helen Kaddish, poem Sp 223 Parker Knight, Jeff The Simple Truth Philip Levine, review Su 179 Entries Wendell Berry, review Su 179 Pastan, Linda Poison Ivy, poem Sp 60 The Lost Kingdom, poem Sp 61 A Craving for Salt, poem Sp 60 Pelletiere, Marcia I Visited the King, poem Sp 62 Under Her Crib, poem Sp 63 Perlberg, Mark Nightsweat, poem Sp 78 The Edge of the Forest, poem Sp 77 Piercy, Marge Familiarity’s Curse, poem W 79 The True Patriot, poem W 81 Worlds Without End, poem W 80 Karpas, poem W 77 Pinsker, Sanford Dares, Double-Dares, and the Jewish-American Writer, essay Sp 278 Pollack, Eileen The Pool, story Sp 244 Pope, Deborah Pavane for Sleeping Children, poem W 152 Pritchett, Patrick Epiphany, poem Su 44 Winter Howls, poem Su 45 Prufer, Kevin Strange Wood, poem Su 48 Gathering Hickory Nuts in the Woods, poem Su 47 Radin, Doris The Snapped Thread, poem Sp 86 The Wedding, poem Sp 88 Randolph, Ladette The Sincere Cafe Leslee Becker, review F 181 Redlin, Josephine In the Web of It, poem W 153 Regier, Willis G. Mazel Rebecca Goldstein, review Su 169 Revard, Carter Buck Creek: Time West, essay F 58 Rogoff, Jay Grandma’s Cooking, poem Sp 257 Rollings, Alane Savannah, poem W 147 Pick Up the Pieces, poem W 149 Rosenberg, Liz Depression, poem Su 99 Crushed: Chapter Nine, poem Su 98 Sarasota Sunrise, poem Sp 90 My Mother’s Arm, poem Sp 92 Locomotion, poem Sp 89 Hope, poem Sp 91 Ross, A. D. In the Mouth, In the Eyes, story F 149 Rudman, Mark Approach of High Holy Days, poem Sp 120 “Normalissimo,” poem Su 34 Provoked in Venice IV, poem Su 37 Provoked in Venice I, poem Su 30 Rutsala, Vern We Learned It at the Movies, poem F 96 The House of Loneliness, poem F 98 Sadoff, Ira The Veneer, poem Sp 79 Hassids on the Subway, poem Sp 80 In the Dream, poem Sp 81 Index 197 The Blue Gum, poem Sp 85 Near Van Cortland Park, poem Sp 84 Vesuvius, poem Sp 82 Saiser, Marjorie Cutting My Hair, poem F 56 Sarracino, Carmine Renunciation, poem F 81 Burial, poem F 80 Thoranga Bharu, poem F 82 Satterlee, Thom, trans. The Hangman’s Complaint, poem by Henrik Nordbrandt Su 100 Carducci, poem by Henrik Nordbrandt Su 101 Schneider, Steven Asher, poem Sp 199 Joseph, poem Sp 197 Zebulun, poem Sp 198 Schulman, Grace Storm Watch, poem F 79 The Dancers, poem F 78 Brooklyn Bridge, poem F 76 Schwartz, Lynne Sharon Skywriting, poem F 48 Terzanelle on the Talmud F 46 To My Friend in Pain, poem F 47 Seaton, Maureen Little Women, poem W 91 Jane Eyre, poem W 92 Exquisite Encumbent, poem W 89 Exquisite Independent, poem W 87 Exquisite Majority, poem W 88 Exquisite Minority, poem W 87 Seehuus, R. M. Method, Practice, poem Su 83 Selman, Robyn When I Was a Boy, poem F 49 Shapiro, Harvey In Tiberius, poem Sp 73 History, poem Sp 73 Prague, poem Sp 72 Shomer, Enid Theater of Dreams, poem F 140 Life List, poem F 138 Signorelli-Pappas, Rita Artemisia, poem W 155 Sister-in-law, poem W 156 Simpson, Nancy Walking Around Lake Knowles with Sarah, poem W 68 Scar, poem W 69 Omniscient View, poem W 70 Skillman, Judith Asylum, poem Sp 224 Sad Breed, poem Sp 225 Skloot, Floyd Starry Night, poem W 50 The Landscape of Silence, poem W 52 Smith, Arthur Measure Being the Soul of Management, poem W 29 Sornberger, Judith Henry Moore, This Will Not Do, poem W 47 Vermeer’s Handmaidens, poem W 48 Vermeer’s Musicians, poem W 49 Starr Edwards, Melodie Sistrurus, poem Su 155 Stern, Daniel The Man on the Dump By Wallace Stevens: a story, story Sp 31 198 Prairie Schooner Stern, Steve The Sin of Elijah, story Sp 130 Sternburg, Janet His Regular Fare, story Sp 234 Trochaic, story Sp 230 Stone, Ruth Then, poem Sp 111 Light Conclusions, poem Sp 112 Relatives, poem Sp 112 Madison in the Mid-Sixties, poem Sp 113 Up There, poem Sp 114 Uncle Cal on Fashions, poem Sp 109 So What, poem Sp 110 Yes, Think, poem Sp 110 Tall, Deborah Whereof Are You Made, poem F 141 Van Winckel, Nance No Matter How Much We Loved Them, poem W 93 Vargo, Gregory from Sonnets on Desire, poem Su 122 Varley, Jane Color Documentary LuAnn Keener, review W 183 Wallace, Ronald Metaphor as Illness, poem W 27 Rich, poem 28 Swamp, poem W 28 Warn, Emily Raking the Gravel, poem Sp 207 Solitary Date Orchard, poem Sp 209 Watson, Robert N. The Museum of Automata, poem F 168 Weingarten, Roger Collaborator, poem Sp 183 An American Bubbe-mayseh, poem Sp 179 Paradise, poem Sp 184 Welch, Don Dancing with the Nurse, poem W 129 Wendell, Julia I Left My Husband for This, poem W 151 Wenkart, Henny Splintering, poem Sp 108 The Good Girl, poem Sp 107 Wilner, Eleanor The Pillar, poem Sp 286 Winer, Joyce Invisible Signs, story F 113 Winston Dixon, Wheeler Mythologies of the Heart Gerard Malanga, review Su 177 Woodsum, Douglas Nothing Plaintive About Mourning Doves, poem Su 157 Two Laps, poem Su 158 Yanover, Lisa Shetl Life, poem Sp 156