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Front matter

The book
Charles Simic

Beautiful imported silk ties
Charles Simic

Comparative zoology
Charles Simic

Despite appearances
Charles Simic

A vagabond
James Tate

To you in particular
Jim Simmerman

Restless
William Matthews

Returning
Jami Wolf

Old words
Jami Wolf

What are we saying
Jami Wolf

The glass harp
Jami Wolf

Bugs
Carol Oles

This resort, small island paradise
Carol Oles

Nurse
Linda Pastan

Brick-song
Donald Finkel

The fishermen
Donald Finkel

Breather in eden
Donald Finkel

In a dry time
Donald Finkel

Last night
William Stafford

A prospect of diamonds out back
Thomas Rabbitt

The cemetery at blanco
Thomas Rabbitt

Drunk tank
Thomas Rabbitt

The murders on Brick Kiln Road
Thomas Rabbitt

The line
Thomas Rabbitt

Light and your voice
David Breitkopf

Not close enough to hold
Liz Albert

Touching your dream
Liz Albert

Nothing you can see
Liz Albert

Making believe
Robert Pack

Piano
Robert Pack

Chota, beneath what was the little Tennessee River
Susan Jones

Heloise, abbess of the paraclete: Dies irae
Tom Absher

Heloise, abbess of the paraclete: The calling
Tom Absher

Heloise, abbess of the paraclete: Logos
Tom Absher

Heloise, abbess of the paraclete: Memento mori
Tom Absher

Heloise, abbess of the paraclete: The imitation of Mary
Tom Absher

What you wanted them to say
Terry Krause

Missive
Jeanne Perry

Michigan
Deborah Pope

Freeze frame
Edwina Trentham

From home
David Franke

Notes to a sister at the loss of her husband
David Franke

Celebrating the birthdays
Rachel Crumble

Finding on the underground
W. Bishop

Training exercises, 1963
Margot Treitel

Dominions of return
Terrell Fugate

Visits
Ben Howard

Overture
Ben Howard

On a still life: Lilacs and poenies Suzanne Valamond (1867-1938)
Mary Cocke

Letting go
Mark Rubin

Fall at four o'clock: Step one
Jenny Arthur

Bedtime amongst friends
Jenny Arthur

The beachcombers
Martha Wickehaus

Shower
Susan Herport

Poem from a small and quiet town
Marty Kich

Night sky
John Morrison

Mud Creek, Kentucky
Laurie Perry

Manatee
Pete Link

Camping on the coast of Washington
Wendy Ranan

The heart of the periphery (James Tate)

Reporting the space (Carolyn Forche)

Cataracts
Pat Hutchings

All truth aside (Tom Rabbitt)

A step away
Lisa Kinberger

The edge of time (Denise Levertov)

The second image
Lisa Kinberger

Preserving the self (Carol Oles)

Reconstruction
Shalamar Sibley

Brawl on Via San Giovanni Sul Muro
Dino Buzzati

Calm in the flatlands
Emilio Prados

Normandy
Gunther Grass

The middle of life
Friedrich Holderlin

Children's eyes
Tove Ditlevsen

Sonnets to Orpheus 1,3
Rainer Maria Rilke

Cricket song
Anonymous (Anacreontea 34)

Horace
Anonymous (Anacreontea 34)

Epifania
Salvador Novo

The last poem
Robert Desnos

My school
Sylvain Garneau

The speck
Osvaldo Ramous

Solitude
Osvaldo Ramous

Fear
Lidia Balkenende

Night
Nelly Borroni Mac Donald

Shadow of the days to come
Alejandra Pizarnik

Margaret with her closet
Helga Novak

Therapeutic bath
Helga Novak

Whitman's poetics: Beyond art to first principles
Reed Sanderlin