Contents
Volume I, A-L (Numbers 62 & 63)
PREFACE
Wayne Dodd, Editor
NEW WORK/3OTH ANNIVERSARY
Sandra Agricola
O is the Vowel of Choice
John Ashbery
De Senectute
Robert Bly
A Ramage About the Caribs
Poem Beginning with a Line of Stafford's
Sharon Bryan
Death's Door
Big Band Theory
Ayse Papatya Bucak
In Alanya
The Man Chops Another Onion
Songs of His Own Invention
Richard Burgin
The Endless Visit
Michael Chitwood
The Store
David Citino
The Beatification of Padre Pio
Bruce Cohen
The Salvador Dali Exhibit: Rome, 1999
Russell Edson
Medical Stew
Joan Frank
The Sounds that Arrive in the Present
Alice Friman
Underground Parking
John Gallaher
A Guidebook to Some Foreign Country
A Walk Around the Pool Thinking Thoughts
The Sky Is Blue & Birds Fly Through It
Albert Goldbarth
The Polarized Responses
John Haines
To the Century's End
Melanie Hammer
Moving Violations
Pamela Kircher
Peculiar brown leaves on the sugar maple in March.
Ted Kooser
Old Cemetery, Rural Nebraska
Susan Ludvigson
Charleston, SC
SELECTED WORK
Lee K. Abbott
The Heart Never Fits Its Wanting
Sandra Agricola
Fish Market
Genesis of Strip Poker
Passion Lessons
A.R. Ammons
Time After Time
What Was That Again?
The Incomplete Life
Max Apple
Paddycake, Paddycake . . . A Memoir
John Ashbery
Hop o' My Thumb
Angela Ball
Travel Accessories
Amadeo Modigliani: Anna
Anna Akhmatova: Osip Mandelstram
Question
Richard Barnes, translator of
The Suicide by Jorge Luis Borges
Marvin Bell
Others Stop Elsewhere
The Great American Search for the Perfect Hometown
Wendell Berry
Poem for J.
John Berryman
Surveillance
Robert Bly
A Ramage of the Man Who Is Alone
Francis Ponge (translated by Robert Bly): The End of the
Fall
Michelle Boisseau
Dust
Joe Bonomo
Sketch, with Four Walls
Philip Booth
Distances/Shallows/Deeps
Jane Brox
And This
Peas
Snow
Weather
Merrimack
Sharon Bryan
The Same River Twice
Paula Closson Buck
Rest
Star Chart Over the Bed
Charles Bukowski
ittle poem
Ralph Burns
The Man Who Patched the Floor
Hayden Carruth
Depression
The Nature of Art
Dan Chaon
Thirteen Windows
Karen Chase
Buying Shrimp
Michael Chitwood
Wednesday Blues
Dust
David Citino
Lecture to the Bioscience Class: Pine and Lightning, Cataclysms
and Stone
Henri Cole
The Housekeeper and the Handyman
Helen Conkling
Some Advice
Gerald Costanzo
The Poem about Blue Loons
"What Youngstown Needs Is Good Representation"
Snake
Moira Crone
The Kudzu
Madeline DeFrees
Trepang Fishing in Webster Creek
Deborah Digges
The Waiting Room Door
Jeannine Dobbs
Those Summer Evenings
Patricia Dobler
August
Susan Dodd
Lokey Man
Rita Dove
Champagne
The Bird Frau
Jiving
The Event
Variation on Pain
Jack Driscoll
Searching For Bodies in a Glassbottom Boat
Stephen Dunn
The Routine Things Around the House
Russell Edson
The Brotherly Description
The City of Water and Stone
Dick and Jane and the Mayonnaise Factor: an Apprenticeship
Lynn Emanuel
A Blond Bombshell
Rita and the Fires of Love
Riddle
Who Is She Kidding
David Farrah
Illustration from The Tale of Saigyo
Saigyo Kicks His Daughter from the Veranda
Paula Fox
About Language
Alice Friman
Diapers for My Father
Erica Funkhouser
Vagrancy
Dan Gerber
Sources
Amy Gibson
Cunnilingus
Gary Gildner
A Picture Postcard
Albert Goldbarth
Field
Farder to Reache
The Flowers of Koonwarra
Alvin Greenberg
i am aware that i am, therefore i must be thinking, i suppose
starlight, starbright
Marilyn Hacker, translator of
What I Wore by Claire Malroux
John Haines
Pages from an Autobiography
Early Sorrow
Donald Hall
The Ideal Bakery
Barbara Hamby
Reichsfuhrer Blues
Michael S. Harper
Grandfather
William Heyen
The Boulder: A Journal
The Bolshevik Revolution
Paul Hoover
Lesson of the Billboard Dogs
Richard Howard
The Assignation with Valery Larbaud
Richard Hugo
Grandfather's Car
Fort Benton
David Ignatow
Suburbia I
It's Amazing
A Brief Biog
Colette Inez
Pound Noted for Measures of Weight
Confounded Song
Mark Jarman
Half Sonnets
Sebastian Junger
Heat of the Day
Donald Justice
The Effacement of Self: an Interview with Donald Justice
Little Elegy
Suzanne Keen
March Elegy: in Training
Jane Kenyon, translator of
Three Poems by Anna Akhmatova
Galway Kinnell
The Man on the Hotel Room Bed
Judith Kitchen
Three Landscapes
Peter LaSalle
Lac Noir
Naomi Lazard
Ordinance on Failure
The Beast's Ordinance
Denise Levertov
Biography and the Poet
Philip Levine
No One Knows the Yellow Grass
A Theory of Prosody
Larry Levis
Signs
Janet Lewis
Fossil
Gordon Lish
Narratology to the People!
Among the Pomeranians
John Logan
Travelling
Susan Ludvigson
Breasts
Little Women
Puivert
Puivert II
Puivert III
CONTRIBUTORS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Drawings from the Archives: Jack Keely