Preface
Six Letters from James Schuyler, correspondence
Edited by William Corbett
from Purgatory
W.S. Merwin
translated from Dante's Purgatorio
from "Rocks on a Platter," poem excerpt
Barbara Guest
Elegy (A Little), poem
Donald Revell
Skywatch, poem
Jan Heller Levi
from Mozart's Third Brain
from The Book of Sounds, poems
Göran Sonnevi
translated from the Swedish by Rika Lesser
from The Sopranos, novel excerpt
Alan Warner
Woodstock; American Mountains, poems
James Lasdun
Summit Mall, poem
Melissa Holbrook Pierson
Prospect Park Southwest, poem
E. Beth Thomas
No Spring; Pilgrim's Progress; Play, poems
Terese Svoboda
Sun, Unreturanble Gift: Composition with Pink & Gray Galahs in Flight, poem
John Kinsella
from Less Than Spring, poem excerpt
Molly McGrann
Of Praise and Punishment: Arachne,
from The Metamorphoses of Ovid
translated by Charles Martin
Myth; Seventy Feet from the Magnolia Blossom; The World; Wing of Newt, poems
Jane Mead
Hotel Declerq, poem
Susan Wheeler
but the layers of ash, the line brushed white; the lesser white, capitulum, inflorescence, the sun interrupting, poems
Ingrid Fichtner
Four Versions and a Pastiche from the Greek Anthology, poems
Katharine Washburn
from Ice, Fire, Water, novel excerpt
Leslie Epstein
In the Beautiful City, poem
Paul Nemser
from A Theory of the Novel, criticism
P. N. Furbank
Small Talk, poem
Jane Shore
Don't Ask Me I'm Not Telling, poem
Claudia Keelan
Le Thérapeute; Meditation; Invocation; Meditation: Hunger; Theogany; Meditation: The Heliotrope, poems
Bruce F. Murphy
from Sonnets on Death, poems
Jean de Sponde
translated from the French by David R. Slavitt
H*t*l M*rq**s, poem
L. S. Asekoff
Behold the Brahminy Kite; Leper's Walk; Prayer to St. Blaise, poems
Greg Delanty
Kindertotenlieder, poem
Joshua Weiner
Five; Rapid, Impossible Placement of Fact, poems
Charlie Smith
What They Remember, poem
Brian Henry
from Nova Cantica, poems
John Peck
Futile Exercise; Morning Exercise; There; Intervals in Early August; On the Other Hand, poems
Phillis Levin
from Plot, poem excerpt
Claudia Rankine
The Insult, memoir
Howard Norman
Anima; Thelma, poems
Vijay Seshadri
Stanzas in My 39th Year, poem
Wayne Koestenbaum
Natural History; The Trap, poems
Donna Masini
How We Became, poems
Julie Carr
Heartache; I Follow You, poems
Pura López Colomé
translated from the Spanish by Forrest Gander
Butterwort, poem
Judith Baumel
Jewish Variations on Erik Satie's "Sports et Divertissements," poem
Daniel Kane
Try Love, story
Susan Bergman
Breakfast at the Metro, poem
Rachel Hadas
from The Writing of Guillaume Apollinaire, prose and poetry
Louis Zukofsky
French passages translated by Sasha Watson
Big Game Hunting in the City, poem
Joyce Mansour
translated from the French by Sasha Watson
Contributors
