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THE KENYON REVIE INDEX OF VOLUME XXX, 2008 2008 PATRICIA GRODD POETRY PRIZE FOR YOUNG WRITERS AUTHOR TITLE ISSUE PAGE David Baker Young Writers Introduction 4 11 Samantha Berstler self-portrait 4 21 Molly Brown Terra Incognita 4 14 Weihui Lu (why) can’t i hear you anymore? 4 16 FICTION AUTHOR TITLE PAGE Maria Eliza Hamilton Abegunde The Ariran’s Last Life 145 Carolyn Buchanan The Road 115 Bonnie Jo Campbell Boar Taint 60 H.G. Carrillo Co-Sleeper 70 John Michael Cummings Marshmallow People 89 Gary Fincke The Visual Equivalent of Pain Thomas Glave The Torturer’s Wife Susan Hahn The Lovers W. David Hall Sandlot Githa Hariharan Diablo Baby M. M.M. Hayes Meantime, Quentin Ghlee Holly Goddard Jones Retrospective Gimbiya Kettering Carryout Elizabeth Lantz An Unexplained Accident Don Lee UFOs Rahul Mehta Quarantine Roger Rosenblatt Professor Porterfield’s Class Anne Sanow Safety Deborah Schwartz The City and the Moon George Singleton The First to Look Away Aurelia Wills Wasps The Kenyon Review NONFICTION AUTHOR ISSUE PAGE Brian Doyle No 2 9 Ben Miller Of Squirrels and Men 84 Meredith Hall The Simplest Questions Lewis Hyde Being Good Ancestors James Fleming Jones Jr. Searching Still for Odysseus Ann Keniston ‘Balm after Violence’: Louise Gliick’s Averno Kate Maloy Winding Threads Jeffrey Meyers Salter’s Gift Marilyn Moriarty Displaced Persons Simon J. Ortiz and Gabriele Schwab Memory Is Key Michelle Richmond _A Life in Pods William Wenthe The Craft of Thought: The Sentence in Contemporary Poetry POETRY AUTHOR Mary Jo Bang V Is the Diver; The Wake Was a Line and We Watched Charles Baudelaire Réve parisien (Parisian dream) Translated by John Kinsella Jill Bialosky The Skiers David Bottoms My Mother’s Abscess Robert Olen Butler Intercourse Joseph Campana _ Sheltering Bough Jennifer Chang River Pilgrims Victoria Chang Elegy with a Dirt Trail; Sparrows Nadia Herman Colburn In the Meadow; Happiness; Nothing We Say Is Ever the Soul; Speaking to a Friend Who Speaks of Suicide Nicole Cooley Breach; I Spy a Hole, a Crack, a Leak Index of Volume XXX, 2008 Adam Day Gallows Portraits; Aubade Stephen Dobyns Mourning Doves; Nickel Beth Ann Fennelly We'd Been Drinking Champagne When I Found It Albert Goldbarth In Another; Secondhand Light; Through the Elements Joanna Goodman Beginning and Ending with Birdcall; Were This a Wish with a Plea; Hovering Marilyn Hacker Blasons Judith Hall Night Heart Red Hawk The Hallelujah Chorus Brooks Haxton Song of the Indigo Bunting David Hernandez Mosu! Anna Journey Adorable Siren, Do You Love the Damned? John Koethe The Distinguished Thing Ted Kooser Success; Splitting an Order; Bad News; Spanish Lessons; Two Men on an Errand Alex Lemon Patter to Mend Dana Levin Zozo-ji Phillis Levin Letter to the Snow ;O pen Field Abelardo Linares So Swift; Love Is Worthy of This Translated by Victor Rodriguez Nunez and Katherine M. Hedeen Deanne Lundin What It Cost; How Tulips Invented Jazz J.D. McClatchy The Young Fate Jennifer Militello Personality State: Prophet; Personality State: Scavenger’s Daughter Derek Mong Equivalents Paul Otremba Noise Like Wings J. Allyn Rosser How Like the Heart the Thumb Doug Sanders And All the Bells Were Ringing Deema K. Shehabi The Narrative The Kenyon Review Leslie Shipman Plea to Birds; Girl on a Hill Steven Ray Smith They Are People in a Line Katherine Soniat Gravity Willard Spiegelman ’Tis Yet to Come Page Hill Starzinger Alpha Protein; As an eighteenth-century map; Poultice Mary Szybist Not Yet Consumed Nance Van Winckel My Weight in Ants; You Take It from Here Kerri Webster Oracle Weather Jonathan Weinert Her Favorite Book Miller Williams He Gets Around to Answering the Old Question 1 C. Dale Young At Camp Galileo 3 Kevin Young [| Shall Be Released; Grievous Angel; Ode to Gumbo 3 REVIEWS AUTHOR REVIEWER WORK ISSUE PAGE Gelett Burgess André Bernard Burgess Unabridged: A New Dictionary of Words You Have Always Needed 4 Patrick Hamilton André Bernard Hangover Square 4 Philip Kerr André Bernard March Violets 2 Fletcher Knebel and Charles W. Bailey II André Bernard Seven Days in May 4 Allen Shawn André Bernard Wish I Could Be There: Notes from a Phobic Life 2 Paul Theroux André Bernard The Elephanta Suite 2 196 Index of Volume XXX, 2008 Albert Goldbarth David Wojahn The Kitchen Sink: New and Selected Poems 1972-2007 Bruce Beasley The Corpse Flower: New and Selected Poems Carl Phillips Quiver of Arrows: Selected Poems 1986-2006 Ellen Bryant Voigt Messenger: New and Selected Poems 1976-2006 TRANSLATIONS AUTHOR LANGUAGE / TRANSLATOR WORK ISSUE Charles Baudelaire French / John Kinsella Réve parisien (Parisian dream) 4 Abelardo Linares Spanish / Victor Rodriguez Nunez and Katherine M. Hedeen So Swift; Love Is Worthy of This 1