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Hands That Drew Them As They Are, Unity Durieux

Bryant Literary Review

These hands have delved in ruin,

plumbed lovers' pockets, availed

themselves of coldcuts, goodbooks

The Sparrows, John Grey

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It's not their flight but how they

alight on the gutters where I might live.

Dyslexic, Will Nixon

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The year I learned the hangman's noose

I tied it everywhere: tire swings, clothes lines,

Abuelita, Camincha

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To Reyna María, it's like they never left. They visit her often, sometimes in groups, sometimes one at a time.

Verso

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Editor's Note

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The Baker's Secret, Kathy Anderson

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The town baker wakes at dawn, stands in his silent shop, with floured hands slaps rounded balls of dough

The Day After, Patricia Dobler

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So I walked back to the place we'd found him,

needing to see the blood stains and my hands

in the place his head had lain.

Places, Mark Brazaitis

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Salcajá, Lanquín, Purulhá:

the places we made love.

Haunting The Corpus Delicti: Rafael Campo’S What The Body Told And Wallace Stevens’ (Modernist) Body, LáZaro Lima

Latin American, Latino and Iberian Studies Faculty Publications

What the Body Told You, a volume of poems by the Cuban-American poet Rafael Campo (b. 1964), addresses how formal poetry may give form to loss and memory in the age of AIDS by structuring an exchange between the literary institutions that privilege poetry as a representational medium and the inability of language adequately to account for and remember loss. Campo’s What the Body Told haunts modernism’s legacy by construing it as the corpus delicti, literally the body of the crime, where “crime” is conceived as the insufficiency of modernist aesthetic agencies to give evidence of the “truth” …

The Autumn After September 11 (Poem), Frank Pommersheim

Faculty Publications

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Blitzkrieg, Peter Hughes

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Table Of Contents

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Fan Letter, John Mann

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Dear life, dear earth, dear season of snow.

The Word Box, Christopher Brookhouse

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We can't sleep.

I'm hungry, she says.

I know what she wants.

The Last Block Party, Bud Johnson

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The sun is setting over the deserted soccer field near the burial mound.

Impending Doom, Mario Duarte

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Out of nothing, nowhere,

a boy grasping a red balloon

wavers over the circus tent.

Consider, Mary Crow

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Consider the polar bear

whose every white hair is a heat pipe

In The New Guinea Highlands, John Grey

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I can't get over the belief

that the simplest people always know more;

Across The Line, William Holinger

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The trouble is that the balls go where you throw them.

-- a well-known saying in juggling

Standing in foul territory over by the cornfield, roughing up the game ball,

First Sky, Jay Udall

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Some days you don't need a second sky--

the one outside is what you have

Thoughtless, Chris Semansky

Bryant Literary Review

A piano falls from the sky.

A quite beautiful piano.

Contributors

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9 Ways Of Seeing A Rainy Day, Nick Salter

The Messenger

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Part And Counterpart In Nc, Db Ross

The Messenger

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Fire, . Anonymous

The Messenger

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"Ich Suche Ein Unschuldiges Land," Reading History In The Poetry Of Ingeborg Bachmann, Kathrin M. Bower

Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Faculty Publications

In this brief monograph based on her dissertation, Leslie Morris sets out to achieve a series of aims: to contest the alleged divide between Bachmann's poetry and prose, to counter "the myth of her apolitical poetic voice" (10), to address the presence and absence of history in her poetry, and, finally, to consider how to read Bachmann's poetic ceuvre in light of historical developments in Germany and Austria in the 1980s and 1990s. In a sense, Morris is also trying to rehabilitate post-war aesthetic modemism from a reductive, binary mode of criticism that separates aesthetics and politics. Following in the …

From The Cantos, 1, David Staniunas

The Messenger

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For Philip Larkin (Orchids), David Staniunas

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Angles And Reflections, Db Ross

The Messenger

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