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Joan Braun |
| "Someone was alive / whom you followed by oil lamp," photo collage, 2009. For more of the artist's work, visit www.joanbraun.com. |
Cover |
Mary Greene |
| design |
Cover |
Scott Withiam |
| The Smallest Know |
5 |
Garth Greenwell |
| First Morning |
6 |
Harry Humes |
| Rabbit Man |
8 |
Christina Hutchins |
| Quail |
9 |
Michaelean Ferguson |
| Retaken |
10 |
Tony Brinkley and Raina Kostova, translator |
| Star, from The Voronezh Notebooks, by Osip Mandelshtam |
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| But conscience chooses..., from The Voronezh Notebooks, by Osip Mandelshtam |
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Jeff Crandall |
| Night Call: Broodmare |
16 |
Mary Leader |
| They Vibrate |
17 |
| Letter to Arkady Plotnitsky |
18 |
Albert Goldbarth |
| Extinct |
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| Three Quotes from William Irvine's Account of the Nineteenth-Century Scientist-Explorer Thomas Huxley's Life |
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Fady Joudah, translator |
| A Picture of the House at Beit Jala, by Ghassan Zaqtan |
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| As If He Were She, by Ghassan Zaqtan |
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David Bergman |
| Nativity Scene |
32 |
Chuck Carlise |
| Breaking Up with Katie from 8000 Miles |
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Steve Wilson |
| Evening |
35 |
| Rosscarbery Bay |
36 |
K.A. Hays |
| Early Creatures |
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| BOOKS IN BRIEF |
Marion K. Stocking, reviewer |
| The Full Resources of Language |
41 |
| Hayden Carruth, Toward the Distant Islands |
41 |
| Joseph Stroud, Of This World: New and Selected Poems |
42 |
| Roger Mitchel, Half/Mask |
42 |
| Marianne Boruch, Grace, Fallen From |
44 |
| Frank Bidart, Watching the Spring Festival |
45 |
| Alice Notley, In the Pines |
47 |
| Susan Howe, Souls of the Labadie Tract |
48 |
| Jeffrey Yang, An Aquarium |
49 |
| Susan Stewart, Red Rover |
50 |
| C.D. Wright, Rising, Falling, Hovering |
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