Table of Contents: September 2009

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Desirée Alvarez · Dan Beachy-Quick · Malachi Black · Colin Cheney · Kelle Groom · David Harsent · Lin Hixson · Michael Hofmann · Dennis Jacobs · Katia Kapovich · Sandra McPherson · Samuel Menashe · Ange Mlinko · Don Paterson · Fernando Perez · Lucia Perillo · Belle Randall · Spencer Reece · Atsuro Riley · Michael Robbins · Mary Schmich · William T. Vollmann · Liz Waldner · Douglas Wolk

Cover art: Cathie Bleck, "Transformations," 2009.

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	AUTHOR	TITLE
	Samuel Menashe	In Your Face Tempus fugit Here Now Psalm
	Dan Beachy-Quick	Anniversary Museums
	Belle Randall	Cast Off “Four Quartets” Revisited
	Don Paterson	Why do you stay up so late? The Lie
	Liz Waldner	Semblance: Screens
	Atsuro Riley	O
	Lucia Perillo	The Second Slaughter
	Kelle Groom	Swerve
	Katia Kapovich	To the Quarry and Back
	David Harsent	Abstracts
	Malachi Black	Drifting at Midday Insomnia & So On
	Desirée Alvarez	The Order In Which Things Are Broken
	Sandra McPherson	Formulary
	Colin Cheney	Half-Ourselves & Half-Not
	Spencer Reece	At Thomas Merton’s Grave

		THE VIEW FROM HERE
	Mary Schmich	Poetry, Daily Brenda Starr makes way for Rumi, Neruda, and Merwin.
	Dennis Jacobs	Aye Birds Tune A federal judge considers poetry from the bench.
	Douglas Wolk	The Chisel How poetry can break open pop criticism.
	Fernando Perez	Para Rumbiar Robert Creeley in the outfield.
	Lin Hixson	And A Look And On Poetry and Performance.
	William T. Vollmann	Show Me a Howe

		COMMENT
	Michael Hofmann	So Goddamn Glamorous Frederick Seidel is a meat-slicing machine.
	Ange Mlinko	As If Nature Talked Back To Me A Notebook.
	Michael Robbins	Live All You Can On Susan Wheeler, Jack Gilbert, and J.D. McClatchy.

		LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
	Etienne Ndayishimiye	Letter to the Editor
	David Shook, M.D.	Letter to the Editor
	Henry Gould	Letter to the Editor
	Ange Mlinko	Letter to the Editor
	Michael Marcinkowski	Letter to the Editor
	Robert Archambeau	Robert Archambeau Responds
	Ina Loewenberg	Letter to the Editor
	Tom Sleigh	Tom Sleigh Responds
	Alan Cohen	Letter to the Editor
	Michael Hudson	Letter to the Editor
	C. K. Williams	C.K. Williams Responds