Yves Bonnefoy watches lightning

Meghan O’Rourke on grief in 1972

Phillis Levin finds an acorn and puts “on a hat like that”

Charles Wright: “The mind’s the affliction”

Walk the Line screenwriter Gill Dennis listens to Johnny Cash & considers poetic voice

Plus: Elizabeth Bradfield, Venus Khoury-Ghata, Albert Goldbarth, & David Wojahn

Cover art by Timothy Chapman

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Volume 1, Number 2, Fall-Winter 2006-07

POETRY

Phillis Levin

Acorn
A Rhinoceros at the Prague Zoo
Tender Offer

Don Colburn

Prayer

Paula Bohince

Charity

Charles Wright

XXVII. One Needs No Paradise
XXIX. The Little Birds Are Honing Their Beaks on the Chopping Block Stump

Albert Goldbarth

The Arc

Venus Khoury-Ghata

There Are Two Fig Trees Eating Their Fruit in the Darkness
Moon Big with Two Tides Has Fits of Nausea
“Pious Moon on Its Way to Mecca Bursts Out Laughing at the Camel’s Every Jolt”

Kevin A. Gonzalez

Fire Ghazal

David Wojahn

August, 1953
In the Domed Stadium

Teresa Ballard

I am Talking of Fever

Elizabeth Bradfield

The Shepherd of Tourists on a $20 Sunset Cruise Speaks

Joseph Millar

A Love Supreme

Philip Memmer

The Cubist’s Wife

Peter Campion

In Early March
September
So Here Is How We Live Now

Meghan O’Rourke

Elegy, 1972
Stillborn

Yves Bonnefoy

Lightning
The Edge of the Wood

COMMENTARY

Mail

Bill Donahue

Among the Hair Shirts

Gill Dennis

Unchained

Some Books

Reviews by Edward Derby

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