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February 2005

Rob Gardiner, "Evian Girl," photograph, 2001.
 
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  • Laura McCullough
  • Julie Holcomb
  • David Hinton
  • Brian Phillips
  • Adam Zagajewski
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Great Ships

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Pray That It Might Be This Way

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Plato, or Why

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Table of Contents

Poems
  • Adam Zagajewski
    • Great Ships
  • Bronislaw Maj
    • Pray That It Might Be This Way
    • Permit
  • Wisława Szymborska
    • Plato, or Why
  • Czeslaw Milosz
    • Normalization
  • Piotr Sommer
    • Out of Town
  • Sharon Olds
    • Still Life
    • Toth Farry
  • D. Nurkse
    • A Marriage in Belmont
  • Daniel Mark Epstein
    • The Comb-Bearers
  • Alice Friman
    • Permanent Press
    • Seeing It Through
  • Kathryn Starbuck
    • Thinking of John Clare
    • Undone Song at Neap Tide
  • D. H. Tracy
    • Catastrophe
  • Dennis Schmitz
    • Intimacy
    • Elms
  • Davis McCombs
    • The Mist Netters
  • Brian Swann
    • Manitu Bay
  • Patrick Ryan Frank
    • The Man like an Emperor Moth
  • Carl Dennis
    • Not a God
    • To Plato
  • Kay Ryan
    • Atlas
    • He Lit a Fire with Icicles
Comment
  • Clare Cavanagh
    • Chaplain of Shades: The Ending of Czeslaw Milosz
  • Meghan O’Rourke
    • I Have Work to Dream
  • Brian Phillips
    • Ten Takes
Letters
  • Laura McCullough
    • Letter to the Editor
  • Julie Holcomb
    • Letter to the Editor
  • David Hinton
    • Letter to the Editor
CONTRIBUTORS
  • Clare Cavanagh
  • Carl Dennis
  • Daniel Mark Epstein
  • Patrick Ryan Frank
  • Alice Friman
  • David Hinton
  • Julie Holcomb
  • Bronislaw Maj
  • Davis McCombs
  • Laura McCullough
  • Czeslaw Milosz
  • D. Nurkse
  • Sharon Olds
  • Meghan O’Rourke
  • Brian Phillips
  • Kay Ryan
  • Dennis Schmitz
  • Piotr Sommer
  • Kathryn Starbuck
  • Brian Swann
  • Wisława Szymborska
  • D. H. Tracy
  • Adam Zagajewski
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