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May 2010

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  • Roddy Lumsden
  • Hester Knibbe
  • Linda Kunhardt
  • D. Tracy
  • Andrew Hudgins
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Thetis’ Heel

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Table of Contents

POEMS
  • Roddy Lumsden
    • Eidolon
    • The Shuffle
    • Spiral
    • Hazy Alley Incident
  • Hester Knibbe
    • Thetis’ Heel
    • The Archaeologist
    • Hungerpots
    • Search
    • Glasswork
    • Light-years
  • Linda Kunhardt
    • Majolica Lament, or “Australopithecus”
    • In and Out
    • Order
    • The Slaying
    • Fifi
  • D. H. Tracy
    • You can tell by the way he slices the cantaloupe
    • Guess the Races of Three Boys from Champaign
  • Andrew Hudgins
    • The Funeral Sermon
    • Grand Expensive Vista
  • John Kinsella
    • Lichen Glows in the Moonlight
    • Eagle Affirmation
    • Balloon
    • A Version of Alcman’s (fl. 630 BCE) “Sleep” poem . . .
2010 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize Winner
  • The Editors
    • Introduction
  • Eleanor Ross Taylor
    • To Future Eleanors
    • Where Somebody Died
    • Kitchen Fable
    • Pain in the House
    • Limits
    • Against the Kitchen Wall
    • Te Deum
Comment
  • David Biespiel
    • This Land Is Our Land
  • A.E. Stallings
    • Poetry for Grown-ups
  • Peter Campion
    • Rhetoric, Music, America
  • Abigail Deutsch
    • Let Fly the Splendor
CONTRIBUTORS
  • David Biespiel
  • Peter Campion
  • Abigail Deutsch
  • The Editors
  • Andrew Hudgins
  • John Kinsella
  • Hester Knibbe
  • Linda Kunhardt
  • Roddy Lumsden
  • A.E. Stallings
  • Eleanor Ross Taylor
  • D. H. Tracy
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