Editor's Note

• The Listeners

Photography

• Two Photographs

Poetry

• School Days, 1977

• Courtyard
• The Last Hours of Prince Illyricus
• Politics

• Motive

• I.iii
• I.v
• I.vii

• When Frank Breaks into Your House
• Frank and his Wife

• Iron Kettle
• Of Pyrus communis

• Back Nets

• Because I Wanted To

• Utterly Hushed

• Three Bath-tub Poems

• Three Songs of Xanadu Made New

• Class Notes
• Requiem for the Common Man, Or Fanfare of the Common Man, Or Possibly, Laundry

• Contemplating My Reflection in a Puddle on the Last Day of the 20th Century

• A Late Tatter of Eden
• Deep in Under, Out in Air

• The Birds Cannot Disappear
• A Temple Pool Might Ignite Lotus-Blood from Your Heart

• One
• Zero

• Center of a Room

• My Medical Expert System
• I am in Love with Language

• Billy
• For the Birds

Read & Recommended

• Three Books about Books
• To Do As Adam Did by Ronald Johnson
• Four Books by Ricky Garni
• 'Particularities' by Kevin Bezner
• Ravishing DisUnities: Real Ghazals in English
• Blackbird Dust by Jonathan Williams
• Evaporate Again by C. A. Conrad
• Anne Carson's Economy of the Unlost & Men in the Off Hours

Reviews

• Thom Gunn's Boss Cupid & Anne Stevenson's Granny Scarecrow
• Nature: Poems Old and New by May Swenson
• Ford Swetnam's Ghostholders Know

• Andrea Selch & George Elliott Clarke's Succory & Gold Indigoes

• Ancestors by Kamau Brathwaite

• The Lost Sea by Keith Flynn

• 'A Certain Light' by Debra Kaufman
• Re-Sounding: Selected Later Poems by Theodore Enslin
• When I Find You Again It Will Be in Mountains

• Contributors