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Mary Greene |
| design |
Cover |
Zhu Yongjin |
| from painting, "A Basket Full of Vegetables", Jinshan County, China |
Cover |
Frank Steele |
| The Weight of the World |
7 |
Reynolds Dixon |
| Half Life |
8 |
Nance Van Winckel |
| Channel of the Reddest Wines |
9 |
David Williams |
| "Hunter Mountain" (1863) |
10 |
Albert Goldbarth |
| The Salt Mine |
12 |
Fady Joudah, translator |
| Cadence Chooses Me, by Mahmoud Darwish |
20 |
| Sonnet 5, by Mahmoud Darwish |
22 |
Hillel Schwartz |
| Amidah |
24 |
Lola Haskins |
| For the Suicides |
26 |
| The Barren Woman to Her Sister |
27 |
E. R. Carlin |
| Raising Drusilla |
28 |
Jeff Crandall |
| Conversation with the Rose Man |
32 |
Stan Sanvel Rubin |
| Rope |
35 |
Bruce Tindall |
| The Ambassador of the Interregnum |
36 |
| The Ambassador as Horatius |
37 |
| The Last Ivory-Billed Woodpecker |
38 |
Peggy Steele |
| Dried Phlox |
39 |
G. David Schwartz |
| An Oracle of the Shaman as Reported by Toma the Stutterer |
40 |
Hadara Bar-Nadav |
| A Number of Things |
42 |
| Long Division |
44 |
| Sustenance and the Ark |
45 |
| Knacker |
46 |
| Black and White |
47 |
Daneen Wardrop |
| [Marco, when you, Niccoló, and], from "The Silk Road: Marco Polo's Wife" |
48 |
| [Travelers come asking for your], from "The Silk Road: Marco Polo's Wife" |
49 |
| [The canopies of vendors swell], from "The Silk Road: Marco Polo's Wife" |
50 |
| [Trees move houses past our], from "The Silk Road: Marco Polo's Wife" |
51 |
| [I want to touch, in], from "The Silk Road: Marco Polo's Wife" |
52 |
| [Other women will hang carpets], from "The Silk Road: Marco Polo's Wife" |
53 |
| [The Thousand Buddha Caves, westernmost], from "The Silk Road: Marco Polo's Wife" |
54 |
| [Fingering pomegranates, peaches, melons, and], from "The Silk Road: Marco Polo's Wife" |
55 |
| [From a balcony I see], from "The Silk Road: Marco Polo's Wife" |
56 |
Mira Rosenthal |
| Heat |
57 |
Charlotte Boulay |
| At the Sackler Museum in Cambridge |
58 |
| In darkness |
59 |
Camille T. Dungy |
| Concordance |
60 |
Bert Stern |
| Borscht |
61 |
Kathleen Snodgrass, translator |
| Conclusiones / Conclusions, by Luis Miguel Aguilar |
62 |
| El cielo y mis libros / Heaven and My Books, by Luis Miguel Aguilar |
66 |
Brent Pallas |
| The Rhinoceros |
68 |
| The Walrus |
69 |
B. Lance Levens |
| Dawgs |
70 |
| Ho |
71 |
Kirstin Hotelling Zona |
| It Wasn't Death She Saw |
72 |
Rennie McQuilkin |
| Killing Time |
73 |
Leigh Anne Couch |
| Obsolescence |
75 |
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| BOOKS IN BRIEF |
Marion K. Stocking, reviewer |
| Does Subject Matter? |
76 |
| Carolyn Forché, Blue Hour |
77 |
| Philip Nikolayev, Monkey Time |
79 |
| Heather McHugh, Eyeshot |
80 |
| James McCorkle, Evidences |
81 |
| Neal Bowers, Out of the South |
84 |
| Tony Hoagland, What Narcissism Means to Me |
85 |
| John Canaday, The Invisible World |
85 |
| Louise Glück, The Seven Ages |
87 |
| William Heyen, Shoah Train |
88 |
| Sondra Gash, Silk Elegy |
89 |
| Jana Harris, We Never Speak of It: Idaho-Wyoming Poems, 1889–90 |
90 |
| Nick Flynn, Blind Huber |
91 |
| Rachel Zucker, Eating in the Underworld |
91 |
| John Haines, For the Century's End: Poems 1990–1999 |
94 |
