Thirty - Spring, 2006
A poet's hope: to be,
like some valley cheese,
local, but prized elsewhere.
- W. H. Auden, "Shorts II"
| Editorial | |
|---|---|
| CHRISTINA THOMPSON | Our Fifteenth Birthday |
| Fiction | |
|---|---|
| KATHERINE VAZ | Lisbon Story |
| ANTHONY VARALLO | Toro |
| KATE GRENVILLE | Bushfire |
| ASKOLD MELNYCZUK | The Translator |
| Essays | |
|---|---|
| MELVIN JULES BUKIET | Three Books in a Bad Season |
| KATHRYN RHETT | Our So-Called Illustrious Past |
| BLAKE BAILEY | John Cheever's "Hollywood Problem" |
| CHRISTIE McDONALD | Brushes with History |
| Poetry | |
|---|---|
| TOMAZ SALAMUN Translated by Joshua Beckman, Phillis Levin, Peter Richards, Ana Jelnikar and the author |
I Dwell Silently Celestial Brass * Our School U Nu +++ |
| HERMAN DE CONINCK Translated by Laure-Anne Bosselaar and Kurt Brown |
Just as This Island Belongs... |
| JIM GOAR | A Toast to the Dirty Work |
| JOHN F. DEANE | Love |
| Special Feature: Seferis | |
|---|---|
| DAVID FERRY | A Note on Kalogeris's Seferis |
| DAVID RICKS | Seferis's Three Secret Poems |
| GEORGE KALOGERIS | Three Secret Poems: from the Greek... |
| Special Feature: Local Poets | |
|---|---|
| DON SHARE | Local Poets |
| JAMES SITAR | High Winds |
| BEN MAZER | A Deaconess Strawberry Night |
| ANN SNODGRASS | After AD ORA INCERTA |
| BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT | After the Seder |
| JENNIFER S. FLESCHER | Virginia, Was There a Leaf... |
| JUNE BEISCH | In Muir Woods |
| DAVID BLAIR | Ode to The Ethics of Ambiguity |
| ART NAHILL | Love Poem Without Modifiers Man Has Arm Reattached... |
| MARCIA KARP | My He |
| JACQUELYN POPE | Providence |
| JENNIFER BARBER | Medina del Campo, Castile |
| WENDY MNOOKIN | The Moon Makes Its Own Plea |
| FRED MARCHANT | Agricola, Agricolae |
| DANIEL BOSCH | Song |
| DANIEL TOBIN | In the Flesh |
| PHILIP NIKOLAYEV | A Field Day |
| FRANNIE LINDSAY | Altar |
| TED RICHER | Goldengrove |
| STEVEN CRAMER | Children |
| JILL McDONOUGH | August 30, 1850 June 1, 1660 |
| Graphics | |
|---|---|
| ROGER KIZIK | Five Drawings |
| ROBERT BECHTLE | Four Drawings |
| Book Reviews | |
|---|---|
| David Baker, Midwest Eclogue | Jeffrey Galbraith |
| Ted Berrigan, The Collected Poems... | William Doreski |
| Frank Bidart, Stardust | Jonathan Weinert |
| Anne Carson, Decreation | Jacquelyn Pope |
| Helen R. Deese, ed., Daughter of Boston | Prudence L. Steiner |
| Anne Fadiman, ed., Rereadings | Shrode Hargis |
| David Ferry, trans., The Georgics of Virgil |
Philip Thibodeau |
| Eamon Grennan, The Quick of It | Thomas O'Grady |
| Tyehimba Jess, leadbelly | Andrew DuBois |
| Katia Kapovich, Gogol in Rome | Tim Kindseth |
| Wendy Lesser, The Pagoda in the Garden | Brinda Charry |
| Yiyun Li, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers | Laura Albritton |
| Charles Martin, trans., Ovid, Metamorphoses | Rodney G. Dennis |
| Harry Mathews, My Life in CIA | Benjamin Paloff |
| John Montague, Drunken Sailor | Henry Hughes |
| Joao Cabral de Melo Neto, Education by Stone | Odile Cisneros |
| Caryl Phillips, Dancing in the Dark | Andrew DuBois |
| Jacquelyn Pope, Watermark | Maggie Dietz |
| Christine Schutt, Florida | Susan Lumenello |
| Floyd Skoot, In the Shadow of Memory | Joyce Wilson |
| Floyd Skoot, A World of Light | Joyce Wilson |
| Daniel Tobin, The Narrows | Christopher Bock |
