BPJ Winter 1996-1997 Vol. 47 No. 2

Winter 1996-1997 Vol. 47 No. 2


Jennifer Craig Pixley
The Suburban Arguments	5
Tom Vander Ven
Sea Washes Sand Scours Sea	6
Waking Up Space	7
Geranium	8-9
Susan Herport Methvin
Magdalen Rag I	10
Magdalen Rag II	11
Kurt Leland
Driving through New Mexico	12
Chaco Canyon	13-15
New Mexican Cemetery	16-23
Amy Scattergood
Sakhalin	24-25
Molly Tenenbaum
Watercolor from the Brush that Paints the Garden	26-28
Neither Now	29
Joy Dworkin
Morning at the Neretva River. November 8, 1993.	30
Pump. Old Square in Cracow.	31
In Defense of Parentheses (Thanks to Herrick)	32
Robin S. Chapman
Holding Open the Doors	33
Margaret Aho
How Can a Body Carry	34
'That We May Be Made	35
Diane Lockward
Vegetable Love	36
My Husband Discovers Poetry	37
Daniel Bourne
Spit Baths	39

BOOKS IN BRIEF
Marion K. Stocking, reviewer
Adrienne Rich and David Lehman, ed., The Best American Poetry 1996	40
Patricia Smith, Big Towns, Big Talk	40-42
Patricia Smith, Close to Death	40-42
Patricia Smith, Always in the Head (cassette)	41-42
Lorna Goodison, To Us All Flowers Are Roses	42-43
Lucia Perillo, The Body Mutinies	43-44
Seamus Heaney, The Spirit Level	44-45
Stratis Haviaris, ed., Harvard Review (#10, Spring 1996) Homage to Seamus Heaney	45
A. R. Ammons, Brink Road	45-48