BPJ Spring 2003 Vol. 53 No. 3

Spring 2003 Vol. 53 No. 3


Mary Greene
design	Cover
Lee Sharkey
photograph, Hangzhou, China, 2002, "Monk, Lingyin Si"	Cover
photograph, Hangzhou, China, 2002, "Silk Market"	Cover
Peter Streckfus
After Words	5
Why I Slept with Him	6
Annie Boutelle
Cormorant	8
Mrs. Thaxter	9
Companions	10
Sarah Avery
Matamorphic	11
Lynne Knight
The Obsessive Gaze	12
Mary Molinary
from "Eve's Epistle to Lilith"	19
Ashes of burned manuscripts adrift in the wind, so	21
Emily Rosko
Small Containers	22
Raw Goods Inventory	23
Brian Henry
Wreckage	24
T. P. Perrin
The Extraterrestrial Ouch	39

BOOKS IN BRIEF
Marion K. Stocking, reviewer
The Meaning of Meaning	41
Claudia Rankine and Juliana Spahr, ed., American Women Poets in the 21st Century: Where Lyric Meets Language	44