BPJ Winter 2008-2009 Vol. 59 No. 2

Winter 2008-2009 Vol. 59 No. 2


Zhang Xinglong
"Autumn Harmony" (woodcut, detail), Huxian County, China	Cover
Mary Greene
design	Cover

Sixteenth Annual Chad Walsh Poetry Prize	5
Temple Cone
A Southerly Route	6
Listening to the Stars before Dawn	7
Matthew Gavin Frank
Pop Derringer	8
Little Mouse	9
Denise Bergman
Memory Is a Lame Dog Lagging	10
Paola Corso
Quotes of the Day	14
My Mother's Eggs	15
Oxygen for Two	16
Sean Lause
The Gift	17
Michael Lee Phillips
Inside the Burn Ward	18
Christopher Bakken
Tryptych: Against Jesus	20
Lyn Lifshin
Champlain, Branbury, the Lakes at Night	22
Elizabeth Tibbetts
Bird Woman	23
Greg Wrenn
Centaur	24
John M. Anderson
Guantanamo Officers' Club : Marcel Marceau, 1963	31
Manhunt for Osama : Book of Kells, AD 800	32
The Baghdad Zoo : Albrecht Dürer, 1515	33
Matt Terhune
Dublin, Georgia	34
Tana Jean Welch
Fortification	35
Ad Infinitum	36
Mary Kathryn Jablonski
Heart Nebula / Running Dog	38
Jessica Goodfellow
: Shadow : Dwelling :	39
: Map : Glass :	40
: Form : Shadow :	41
J. D. Whitney
from All My Relations	42

BOOKS IN BRIEF
Marion K. Stocking, reviewer
Language, Technique, and Emotion	43
Charles Wright, ed., The Best American Poetry 2008	43