Table Of Content

THE KENYON REVIE INDEX OF VOLUME XXxXI, 2009 2009 PATRICIA GRODD POETRY PRIZE FOR YOUNG WRITERS AUTHOR TITLE ISSUE David Baker Young Poets Introduction 4 Arbil Lopez Ciudad 4 Haley Markbreiter The Solitude of Hungarians 4 Felicity Sheehy Letter 4 2008 KENYON REVIEW SHORT FICTION PRIZE AUTHOR TITLE Sergei Lobanov-Rostovsky Short Fiction Prize Introduction Cara Blue Adams _I Met Loss the Other Day Megan Mayhew Bergman Afterbirth Nick Ripatrazone The Bearberry Elegies 2009 KENYON REVIEW SHORT FICTION PRIZE AUTHOR TITLE Sergei Lobanov-Rostovsky Short Fiction Prize Introduction Alexandra Zobel The Miles Tape Hypothesis NEW VOICES AUTHOR TITLE David Baker On Kascha Semonovitch 1 Kascha Semonovitch New; Birch, Pine, Palm; If, Trio; Postcards 1 DRAMA AUTHOR TITLE Roger Rosenblatt The Oldsmobiles THE KENYON REVIE INDEX OF VOLUME XXxXI, 2009 2009 PATRICIA GRODD POETRY PRIZE FOR YOUNG WRITERS AUTHOR TITLE ISSUE David Baker Young Poets Introduction 4 Arbil Lopez Ciudad 4 Haley Markbreiter The Solitude of Hungarians 4 Felicity Sheehy Letter 4 2008 KENYON REVIEW SHORT FICTION PRIZE AUTHOR TITLE Sergei Lobanov-Rostovsky Short Fiction Prize Introduction Cara Blue Adams _I Met Loss the Other Day Megan Mayhew Bergman Afterbirth Nick Ripatrazone The Bearberry Elegies 2009 KENYON REVIEW SHORT FICTION PRIZE AUTHOR TITLE Sergei Lobanov-Rostovsky Short Fiction Prize Introduction Alexandra Zobel The Miles Tape Hypothesis NEW VOICES AUTHOR TITLE David Baker On Kascha Semonovitch 1 Kascha Semonovitch New; Birch, Pine, Palm; If, Trio; Postcards 1 DRAMA AUTHOR TITLE Roger Rosenblatt The Oldsmobiles Index of Volume XXXI, 2009 FICTION AUTHOR PAGE Leslee Becker Terrier 118 Carlos Cunha Under the Shell Sign 79 Robb Forman Dew All the Time 82 E. L. Doctorow All the Time in the World 5 Judy Doenges Melinda Kirsty Gunn A Story She Might Tell Herself Meghan Kenny What Will Make This All Right Amit Majmudar <Azazil Shahriar Mandanipour Seven Captains (Translated by Sara Khalili) Susan Minot Pole, Pole Giulio Mozzi Cover Letter (Translated by Elizabeth Harris) Mukoma Wa Ngugi Abiku: Return from Exile Joyce Carol Oates The Spill Lori Ostlund Bed Death Kit Reed Special Richard Rodriguez Tour de France Scott Russell Sanders Mountain Weather Gary Scott A New Kind ofJ uly Gregory Spatz The Bowmaker’s Cats Judy Troy The All-Night Coffee Shop NONFICTION AUTHOR TITLE PAGE David Baker A Conversation with Fady Joudah 69 Alfred Corn Elizabeth Bishop, Critic William Giraldi Freaky Beasts: Revelations of a One-Time Bodybuilder Paul Goldberger Challenge and Comfort The Kenyon Review Charles Johnson Night Hawks Rebecca McClanahan The Tribal Knot: Ties That Bind and Break Us Jeffrey Meyers Bluebeard Bellow Wyatt Prunty Making and Taking John Rodden and John Rossi The Mysterious (Un)meeting of George Orwell and Ernest Hemingway Lynda Sexson The Duct-taped Side of the Moon Kevin Stein These Drafts and Castoffs: Mapping James Wright POETRY AUTHOR TITLE ISSUE PAGE Kazim Ali blue my promise a swan 1 67 Renée Ashley How to Put It; What Is Visible Is What Mostly Is William Baer Arrhythmia 36 Hadara Bar-Nadav Write Paris Out of the Pictures Rick Barot Exegesis in Wartime Bruce Beasley Reading the Not-Written; Pilgrim’s Deviations Robin Behn Shatter David Bergman The Man Who Wasn't Loved Enough Tom Clark Born Yesterday Mahmoud Darwish Ata Train Station That Fell off the Map; If I Were Another; Rustle (Translated by Fady Joudah) Adam Day A Family Romance Carl Dennis The Sleepless Rita Dove The Wardrobe Lesson; Janissary Rap; Ode on a Negress Head Clock, with Eight Tunes; Concert at Hanover Square Thomas Sayers Ellis Understanding the New Genuine Negro Hero Daniel Mark Epstein The Sense of Style 189 Index of Volume XXXI, 2009 Alan Feldman The Blue Boat Albert Goldbarth Everyday People Linda Gregerson Dido Refuses to Speak Paul Guest A Long Time I’ve Wanted to Say Something Jeff Gundy Having It All Four Ways Rachel Hadas Undertow, Memory, Regret, and Silence Michael S. Harper Leonard Brown, Musician / Teacher Bob Hicok See side; Note to self Mark Irwin In winter,; Red Feather Fady Joudah Still Life; Smoke; Twice a River Ilya Kaminsky That Map of Bone and Opened Valves John Kinsella Wreck John Koethe These Magic Moments Aleksandr Kushner Apollo in the Grass (Translated by Carol Ueland and Robert Carnevale) Melissa Kwasny Woman Inside a Tree; The Lights of Earth; At the Shore; Winter Bouquet Deborah Landau Nocturne William Logan Winter without Memory James Longenbach The Island Carol Muske-Dukes Green River Cemetery; The Grief Game Amy Newman The Fox; The Perennials Alice Notley When You Arrived; Attila the Gypsy Shakes Her Cup; Hotel Truth Room; To Frank, We Have to Know How to Make the New One D.Nurkse The Marriage at Grand Isle; The Present Carl Phillips Almost Tenderly; Conquest; Tell Me a Story; Next Stop, Arcadia; The Life You Save D. A. Powell for the coming pandemic Dahlia Ravikovitch A Bottle on the Waters (Translated by Chana Bloch and Chana Kronfeld) Paisley Rekdal Arctic Scale The Kenyon Review Arthur Rimbaud _ Les Effarés (Translated by John Kinsella) Mary Ruefle A Custom of Mourning, Bright Enough; One World at a Time; Metaphysical Blight; Apologia; New Morning Zach Savich Outside Santa Maria in Trastevere Bruce Smith Devotion: Rent Lisa Russ Spaar Kismet David St. John The Aurora Called Destiny; The Swan; The Aurora oft he Midnight Ink Leon Stokesbury My Wife’s Camera Bag and the Fuji Camera Card Inside It Chase Twichell My Lethe; The Long Bony Faces of the Mules Bruce Weigl My Waiting Brain; The Country That We Love REVIEWS AUTHOR REVIEWER WORK ISSUE Mary Jo Bang Ira Sadoff Elegy 3 Jill Bialosky Kascha Semonovitch Intruder 4 Patrick Cheney and Brian J. Striar, eds. Brett Foster The Collected Poems of Christopher Marlowe 4 Mahmoud Darwish Kazim Ali The Butterfly’s Burden 2 Stuart Dischell Ira Sadoff Backwards Days 3 Eamon Grennan Ira Sadoff Matter of Fact 3 Index of Volume XXXI, 2009 Maureen N. McLane Kascha Semonovitch Same Life 4 TRANSLATIONS AUTHOR LANGUAGE / TRANSLATOR WORK ISSUE PAGE Mahmoud Darwish Arabic / Fady Joudah At a Train Station That Fell offth e Map; If I Were Another; Rustle 3 Aleksandr Kushner Russian / Carol Ueland and Robert Carnevale Apollo in the Grass l Shahriar Mandanipour Farsi / Sara Khalili Seven Captains 3 Giulio Mozzi Italian / Elizabeth Harris Cover Letter 3 Dahlia Ravikovitch Hebrew / Chana Bloch and Chana Kronfeld A Bottle on the Waters 3 Arthur Rimbaud French / John Kinsella Les Effarés 4