Contents
Volume II, M-Z (Numbers. 64 & 65)
PREFACE
Wayne Dodd, Editor
NEW WORK/3OTH ANNIVERSARY
Gerard Malanga
Autumn Leaves
Oliver Rice
How Their Grayness Came
Reg Saner
Florentine Cowboy
Richard Shelton
King of Roses
Richard Speakes
Job and God, in a Slow One
Michael Teig
I Hope You Take Seriously the Suggestion of Undressing
Symposia with Empty Chairs
Lee Upton
Pinocchio's Son
Jean Valentine
The Girl
Ellen Wehle
Chinese Map in a Junk Shop
John Witte
What We Mean
Charles Wright
Night Music
Paul Zimmer
Automne Aeronautique
SELECTED WORK
Thomas Mair
Montana
Broadway
The Party at Marni's
Hilary Masters
In Montaigne's Tower
William Matthews
Talking About Poetry: An Interview with William Matthews
The Penalty for Bigamy Is Two Wives
Living Among the Dead
War Stories
from A Happy Childhood
It Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing
Smart Money
Um
Campbell McGrath
Sunset, Route 90, Brewster County, Texas
Sandra McPherson
Solvents
Jay Meek
Floods
W.S. Merwin
Old Garden
The Fig Tree
Term
Seeing the Cliffs
For the Year
Jane Miller
Sea Level
New Year's Stations
Czeslaw Milosz
The Garden of Earthly Delights: Hell
After Enduring
Scott Minar
Sights
Roger Mitchell
Holding Very Still
Mask of the Few Things
What Is Not Said
The Only Inhabitants of the Universe
Wright Morris
Closing the Gap
Lisel Mueller
The End of Science Fiction
Drawings by Children
Night Song
Leonard Nathan
The Apple Tree
At the Border
Marilyn Nelson
Light Under the Door
Amy Newman
To Continue
Kathleen Norris
The Factory Does Not Reveal . . .
Joyce Carol Oates
Shot
Mary Oliver
Clam Man
The Truro Bear
Moles
Roses
Sister Turtle
Gregory Orr
The Teachers
Linda Pastan
Pears
Molly Peacock
Nightwake
Kathleen Peirce
Grace
Philip Pierson
Watch the Violin
Stanley Plumly
Out-of-the-Body Travel
Wages
Early Meadow-Rue
The Abrupt Edge
Drunks
Frank Polite
Fragments from the Burnt Notebooks of O. Fleming
Thomas Rabbitt
In the Deep End
Pig, a Biography
Bin Ramke
A History of the West
Foreign Language
A Nod toward True Love and Fidelity
Humiliation of the Aphorism
When Culture Was Popular
Paula Rankin
Callers
James Reiss
The Post Card
Girls in Rogers Park
Kenneth Rexroth
Four Poems Written in Kyoto
Adrienne Rich
Trying to Talk with a Man
Boyer Rickel
Dragonfly
Never
Jerry Roscoe
Understanding Stevens
Mark Rubin
Readjustment
David St. John
Wisdom's Shadow
Her Painting
Sunflowers
Black Feathers
Stephen Sandy
Landing
Reg Saner
The Magpie Scapular
The Ypsilon Answer
Sherod Santos
Drag & Shackle
Richard Selzer
Four Deceptions: A Writing Lesson
Grace Schulman
Application
Eileen Silver-Lillywhite
The River
Charles Simic
Where the Levels Meet: an Interview with Charles Simic
The Message Is Confined to the Species
From the Notebooks 1980-1984
My Unwritten Books
Aleksander Ristovic (translated by Charles Simic)Future-Past
Journey
The Touch of Absence
Louis Simpson
The Intellectual
Cold Cereal
Encounter on the 7:07
Neighbors
Jeffrey Skinner
Late Afternoon, Late in the Twentieth Century
John Skoyles
No Thank You
Gary Snyder
Bows to Drouth
Susan Sonde
Who Loves You Baby?
Gary Soto
Getting a Feel for the Place
Richard Speakes
People Can Be Ugly, but
Kim Stafford
Nineteenth Century News
William Stafford
How It Feels to Write Poetry Today
The Gift
Atwater Kent
Any Morning
Speaking in Tongues
After Life's Fever
Sometimes, Reading
George Starbuck
The Death and Resurrection of Sir John Falstaff
Academic Advice to Ken McCullough
from Working Habits
Lament
Poem Not So Big as a Donor Card
Standard Length and Breadth Sonnets
Gerald Stern
The Dancing
Swan Legs
Frank Stewart
Poetry and Wildness: Some Notes on the Hunt
Mark Strand
In Celebration
A Conversation with Mark Strand
Lucian Stryk, translator of
three poems by Shinkichi Takahashi
Magpie
Aching for Life
What Is Moving
Gladys Swan
Lucinda
Mary Swander
Sweater
David Swerdlow
The Tied Condor and the Satisfied Condor
James Tate
Value
Dry Cup
Robert Love Taylor
Colorado
Chase Twichell
Evening, Herron's Farm
Chanel No. 5
Jean Valentine
Seeing l'Atalante
Ellen Bryant Voigt
Year's End
David Wagoner
On Seeing a Street Indian Wearing My Old Dress Suit
Rosmarie Waldrop
Scale
Fall Free
Robert Wallace
The Typewriter
Larkin Warren
Vernal Equinox, D Train to Brooklyn
Robert Penn Warren
The Mission
Departure
Love at First Sight
When the Tooth Cracks-Zing!
Michael Waters
Lunch Hour
God at Forty
Bruce Wetteroth
On a Bright Windy Day in Nebraska
Edgar Whan
The Women of Gustav Klimt
Diane Williams
Her Hair Is Red
Ruling
A Dull, Orderly Job
The Penis Had Been Plenty Decent
David Wojan
God of Journeys and Secret Tidings
George Woodman
Children of Prague, 1996........inside front cover
Childhood Memories, 1998......inside back cover
Charles Wright
Cancer Rising
Bays Mountain Covenant
At Zero
Titleism
The Hydrosyllabic Foot
Opus Posthumous III
The Appalachian Book of the Dead VI
James Wright
The Lambs on the Boulder
Ohioan Pastoral
How Spring Arrives in Rome
The Sumac in Ohio
Paul Zimmer
Zimmer at the Death Watch
CONTRIBUTORS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Drawings from the Archives: Jack Keely