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Lee Sharkey |
| photograph “Vigil,” 2005 |
Cover |
Mary Greene |
| design |
Cover |
Mary Molinary |
| Small parts slowly, from The Book of 8:38 |
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| Faced with 8:38, from The Book of 8:38 |
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| On us too, from The Book of 8:38 |
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| 8:38 is pumice, from The Book of 8:38 |
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| 8:38 is straw, from The Book of 8:38 |
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| 8:38 can’t help, from The Book of 8:38 |
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| Thus does 8:38, from The Book of 8:38 |
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Jose Perez Beduya |
| Signal and Change |
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Dan Lewis |
| Calder |
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Susan Kolodny |
| Itself, from “Black Carp” |
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Lee Ann Roripaugh |
| Things I Would Do for You |
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Michael Snediker |
| Roman Elegy |
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| Tar Baby |
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Lola Haskins |
| Sky-Shots |
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Jay Franzel |
| The Generous Bison |
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Ingrid Wendt |
| The History of Strife |
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Joe Pitkin |
| An Equation with 2 Variables |
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Albert Goldbarth |
| Grahamesque |
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| The Poem in which the Devout and the Atheists Meet in Minnesota |
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| Left Behind |
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| “Off in the darkness hourses moved restlessly” |
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Frannie Lindsay |
| Receiving the Host |
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| BOOKS IN BRIEF |
Marion K. Stocking, reviewer |
| Translation: Text, Texture, and Architecture Part II: Scandinavian, Germanic, and Slavic Poetry Today |
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| Tomas Tranströmer, The Best Poems of Tomas Tranströmer, Robert Bly, translator |
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| Inger Christensen, alphabet, Susanna Nied, translator |
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| Inger Christensen, Butterfly Valley: A Requiem, Susanna Nied, translator |
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| Paul Celan, Glottal Stop: 101 Poems by Paul Celan, Nikolai Popov and Heather McHugh, translator |
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| Popa,Vasco, Collected Poems, Anne Pennington, translator. Francis R. Jones, annotator |
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| Wislawa Szymborska, Miracle Fair, Joanna Trzeciak, translator |
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