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December 2000

Robert Murphy, "Pivot," 1995.
 
  • Joseph Campana
  • Billy Collins
  • Michael Dobberstein
  • Elton Glaser
  • Susan Hahn
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Table of Contents

Poetry
  • Billy Collins
    • The Movies
    • No Time
    • The Genius
  • Linda Pastan
    • Muse
  • Joseph Campana
    • False Etymology
    • Water
Earth Music: Gleanings from the Golden Age of Chinese Archaeology
  • Jean Nordhaus
    • Oracle Bone: Inscribed Scapula of an Ox
    • Chime of Twenty-Six Bronze Bells
    • Jade Shroud Sewn with Gold Wire
  • Susan Hahn
    • Her Purse, at the Winter Solstice
  • Michael Dobberstein
    • Disappearing Act
  • Mercedes Lawry
    • Like Symbols, the Lines
    • Vigil
  • Elise Partridge
    • Pauper, Boston, 1988
    • Burkettville, Maine
  • Carol Potter
    • It's a Free World: After Dancing at Lughnasa
    • The Big Fork
  • Cleopatra Mathis
    • Living Here
    • Demeter the Pilgrim
  • Elton Glaser
    • Postpartum Blues
  • John Lundberg
    • Venetian Tenebrae
  • Timothy Steele
    • Toward the Winter Solstice
  • R. T. Smith
    • Cross Garden
    • Brightwood
    • Scavenging the Wall
  • J. Allyn Rosser
    • Lullaby for the Second Millennium
Comment
  • Bruce F. Murphy
    • Review: Seamus Heaney's Beowulf
  • Bill Christophersen
    • Classical VirtuesAnd Vices
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  • Bruce F. Murphy
  • Jean Nordhaus
  • Elise Partridge
  • Linda Pastan
  • Carol Potter
  • J. Allyn Rosser
  • R. T. Smith
  • Timothy Steele
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