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Landscapes & Pastorals

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  • Poem

    From the magazine:山谷

    By Li Jianjun
    这是夏天的某一个上午
    我得到了一条山谷
    以及山谷里的马匹
    羊群、百灵鸟和九十九棵山杏树

    然而我不能告诉你这条山谷的名字

    这是我对神做出的承诺
  • Poem

    From the magazine:Valley

    By Li Jianjun
    Translated By Wang Ping
    One morning in summer
    I came upon a valley
    With a school of horses
    Sheep, larks, and ninety-nine apricot…
  • Audio
    By Li Jianjun
  • Audio
    By Li JianjunTr. by Wang Ping
  • Poem
    By Chris Hoshnic
    Dá’ák’eh     ahooł’níi niłch’i  doo   naadą́ą́.
    Naadą́   niłch’i
    Doo     Sodizin.
    Niłchi     adiin             goo
    Sodizin bee ’adoolnii…
  • Poem

    From the magazine:Female Rain

    By Doug Gonzalez
    only I stood in the rain with wet skin. I could taste the dew though it had not yet found my lips. …
  • Poem

    From the magazine:Lost Quails in an Easter Pastoral

    By Hershman John
    Last Easter, I gave my mother-in-law a large, brown, simple ceramic
                Navajo water pot, shiny with pine…
  • Poem
    By Meredith Stricker
    in the DMZ ravines north of the Kaesong wastes edging
    south of the perfect ruler’s pink and prisoned paradisethere is a climate paying no attention to us where cranes
    repopulate serpentine deltas
  • Poem
    By Carolyn Forché
    These are your stones, assembled in matchbox and tin,
    collected from roadside, culvert, and viaduct,
    battlefield…
  • Poem
    By Timothy Donnelly
    And though we had fed long and well at the table
      the talk always turned to whether to go on
    regardless…
  • Poem
    By Andrew Frisardi
                                          PRIMEAt dawn, the shapes of cypresses in fog
    Were fingers pointing up from graves, as if what's born…
  • Poem

    From the magazine:a sudden hammering

    By Kristi Stout
    there is a woman in love with my husband. she buried a lamb this morning i didn’t. ahead of myself. …
  • Poem
    By James Joyce
    He travels after a winter sun,
    Urging the cattle along a cold red road,
    Calling to them, a voice they …
  • Poem
    By William Olsen
    My father bought us this trip, he'd taken it, he wanted to give us an experience,
    our eyes to see for…
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