BPJ Spring 1996 Vol. 46 No. 3

Spring 1996 Vol. 46 No. 3


Brian Hubbell
The Message	5
Charles Wyatt
Twenty Self Portraits	6
The Rat Poison Peddler (The Rat Catcher), 1632	7
Christ Awakening the Apostles on the Mount of Olives (Drawing, c. 1648-49)	7
Death Appearing to a Wedded Couple from an Open Grave	8
A Man Making Water	8
L. R. Berger
Notes from Eagle Island	9-25
Martha Carlson-Bradley
Gender	26
Phalloid	27
Robert M. Chute
Heat Wave in Concord	28-31
Xiang He
titled	32
neigh	32
( )	33
fantasy, in past tense	33
it's now again, always so	34
my epitaph, in winter, a draft	34

BOOKS IN BRIEF
Marion K. Stocking, reviewer
W. S. Merwin, The Vixen	35-37
Deborah Burnham, Anna and the Steel Mill	37
Angela Ball, Quartet	37-38
Ellen Bryant Voigt, Kyrie	38
Andrew Hudgins, The Glass Hammer: A Southern Childhood	38
Sharon Olds, The Wellspring	38-39
Sharon Olds, The Father	39
Galway Kinnell, Imperfect Thirst	39-40
Robert Creeley, Echoes	41
John Ashbery, And the Stars Were Shining	42
James Tate, Worshipful Company of Fletchers	42
Leslie Scalapino, The Front Matter, Dead Souls	42-43
Jorie Graham, The Dream of the Unified Field: Selected Poems 1974-1994	43-45
Jorie Graham, Materialism	43-45
William Bronk, Selected Poems	46
Arthur Sze, Archipelago	46-48