BPJ Spring 2000 Vol. 50 No. 3

Spring 2000 Vol. 50 No. 3


Robert Shetterly
"Unexpected Kiss" (ink drawing, 1999)	Cover
Karl Elder
Ciphers	6
Robert M. Chute
Reading a Note in the Journal Nature I Learn	8
Stones Feel Spring	9
Vernal Pool	10
Elizabeth Kuhlman
Sound of Locusts	11
Solange	12
K. Reynolds Dixon
Spare the Rod	14
Stargazer	15
Token	16
Patrick Donnelly
After a Long Time Away	17
Finding Paule Monette, Losing Him	18
Virgil Suarez
The Soviet Circus Visits Havana, 1969	20
When the Great Chinese Papermakers Came to Cuba, the Great Poets Followed	22
Roy Jacobstein
What It Was	23
Kurt Leland
Epitaphs from "New Mexican Cemetery"	24
Jeffrey Levine
Ferdinand Victor Eugéne Delacroix Conducts His Interview	31
Liturgy	32
George Looney
We Call It Hot Blood and Hum It	33
A Parable of Dust and Color	34
Roberta Hill
Hubert Moon's Dilemma	37
Paulann Petersen
Under the Sign of a Neon Wolf	38

BOOKS IN BRIEF
Marion K. Stocking, reviewer
Zbigniew Herbert, Elegy for the Departure and other poems	40
Constance Hunting, Natural Things: Collected Poems 1969-1998	40
Heather HcHugh, The Father of the Predicaments	40
Adrienne Rich, Midnight Salvage: Poems 1995-1998	40
Derek Walcott, The Bounty	40
Baron Wormser, Mulroney & Others	40