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Mary Greene |
| design |
Cover |
Luo Zhijian |
| from painting "Rivals in Love" Huxian County, China |
Cover |
Douglas Woodsum |
| Relic Prayer |
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Scott Withiam |
| Hey Now |
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Jesse Lichtenstein |
| River Run |
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Young Smith |
| The Collapse of the Wave Function, from "Radiation in the Visible Spectrum" |
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| Iridial, from "Radiation in the Visible Spectrum" |
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| Illuminance, from "Radiation in the Visible Spectrum" |
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Kathleen Wakefield |
| Still Life: Nearly Reclining Woman, Settee, and Leaning Axe |
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Herman Asarnow |
| Resistance |
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Susan Varnot |
| Elegies in the Leaves |
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Robyn Anspach |
| Under the old city |
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| Hagar speaks of sand. |
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Susan Tichy |
| Couplet |
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| One, Two |
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Alicia Beale |
| The Manifestation of Orange Poppies |
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Dana Elkun |
| Interview with a Madman |
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| Foreshadow from Buffalo |
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Dawn Lonsinger |
| The Blue-Gray Body of the Zambezi |
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| contour figure on a contour figure on a rock |
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| Love litigates like this: |
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Karl Elder |
| American Bovary (The Cosmetician), from "Z Ain't Just for Zabecedarium" |
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| A Disappearing Act, from "Z Ain't Just for Zabecedarium" |
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| Love in the Time of Quantum Mechanics, from "Z Ain't Just for Zabecedarium" |
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| Making History, from "Z Ain't Just for Zabecedarium" |
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| The Rookery, from "Z Ain't Just for Zabecedarium" |
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| Urban Denouement, from "Z Ain't Just for Zabecedarium" |
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| The Watchers and the Watched, from "Z Ain't Just for Zabecedarium" |
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| Shining, from "Z Ain't Just for Zabecedarium" |
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Suzanne Heyd |
| Elemental: Nitrogen |
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Lynn Shoemaker |
| Mission to Afghanistan: Four Forgiveness Moments |
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| BOOKS IN BRIEF |
Marion K. Stocking, reviewer |
| Translation: Text Texture, and Architecture Part I: The Ancients and the Moderns |
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| Stephen Mitchell, translator, Gilgamesh: A New English Version |
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| Amos Oz, The Same Sea, Nicholas de Lange, translator |
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| Sappho, If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho, Anne Carson, translator |
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| Odysseus Elytis, Eros, Eros, Eros: Selected and Last Poems, Olga Broumas, translator |
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| Odysseus Elytis, The Collected Poems of Odysseus Elytis, Jeffrey Carson and Nikos Sarris, translator |
50 |
| Ovid, The Metamorphoses of Ovid: Translated Freely into Verse, David R. Slavitt, translator |
54 |
| Ovid, Ovid Metamorphoses, David Raeburn, translator |
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| Ovid, After Ovid: New Metamorphoses, Michael Hoffmann and James Lasdun, ed. |
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| Horace, Horace: The Odes, J.D. McClatchey, ed. |
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| Dante, Purgatorio, W.S. Merwin, translator |
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