September 2010
Poems from Daisy Fried, Geoffrey Hill, Ange Mlinko, David Shapiro, William Logan, Jacob Saenz, Yusef Komunyakaa, Matthew Zapruder, and Wislawa Szymborska; Tony Hoagland on the tribes of poetry and Michael Robbins on Robert Hass.
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Nothing Plus the Idea of Chocolate
Poems from David Shapiro, Jacob Saenz, Maria Hummel, and Matthew Zapruder; Tony Hoagland on communication sickness and the poetics of vertigo.
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