Table of Contents: May 2008

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Cover art: Karen Caldicott, "The answer is...," 2008.

AUTHOR TITLE
Spencer Reece Monaco
Jane Hirshfield The Decision
The Pear
Seawater Stiffens Cloth
All the Difficult Hours and Minutes
Yvonne Zipter Osteosarcoma: A Love Poem
Seth Abramson Nebraska
Hands Are Wood
Provincetown Fourth
Bryan D. Dietrich I Imagine My Father’s Death
Andrew Hudgins The Imagined Copperhead
Blowfly
Liz Waldner Photo (Op/tative) Synthesis
Philip White Infidelity
Rodney Jones Skink
Mark Irwin Empire
Sandra M. Gilbert Colonoscopy Sonnet
Daniel Tobin The Cause
Chris Dombrowski Sustenance
Get Up, John
Landscape with Scavengers and Bonelight
Cathy Park Hong Ensor
They Come
COMMENT
Eavan Boland Islands Apart: A Notebook
Oliver Goldsmith, Charlotte Mew, and the definitions of a poet.
Cate Marvin & Joshua Mehigan Curious Specimens: An Exchange
"Potently presented"! Abnormally clumsy"! Our critics debate the merits of two new books.
Carmine Starnino The Plight of the Poet-Critic
The ins and outs of Adam Kirsch.
A.E. Stallings Fugitive Train
Christina Pugh Accessibility Blues