Table of Contents: November 2009

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Cover art: Greg Clarke, “The Poet Takes a Walk,” 2002

AUTHOR TITLE
James Schuyler Sweet Romanian Tongue
Light Night
Scarlatti
Unnumbered Ward
Foreign Parts
Destitute Peru
Tears, Oily Tears . . .
Address
Poem (The day gets slowly started)
Gottfried Benn They Are Human After All
The Young Hebbel
Jena
Static Poems
Gladioli
from “Late”
Finis Poloniae
What’s Bad
“Zeh was a pharmacist”
RUTH LILLY POETRY FELLOWS
Eric Ekstrand Plumblossom
Plumblossom
Chloë Honum Spring
Dress Rehearsal
Joseph Spece Lascaux
Among Elks
Jeffrey Schultz J. Finds in His Pocket Neither Change nor Small Bills
Malachi Black Sifting in the Afternoon
This Gentle Surgery
THE POET TAKES A WALK
Peter Cole Jerusalem
Revealing what had been concealed.
Kay Ryan Marin County, Sort Of
Life, shard-to-shard.
W. S. Di Piero San Francisco
Grounded at last.
Fanny Howe Oxford
George Szirtes W
Secret vices, brief encounters, and the trail of dead.
A.E. Stallings Athens: Peripatetic Fragments
A new world in the old.
COMMENT
A. F. Moritz What Man Has Made of Man
Can poetry reconnect the individual and society?
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Stephen Yenser Letter to the Editor
Michael Robbins Michael Robbins Responds
Peter Lennon Letter to the Editor
Jo Sarzotti Letter to the Editor