Contents

Art
Ivan de Monbrison
Read & Recommended
Jeffery Beam

   Poetry by Gustaf Sobin

   Poetry by Philip Lee Williams

   Photographs by Vaughn Sills

   Edited by Paul Ebenkamp

   Poetry by Bob Arnold
   Gentleman
   Yokel: A Long Green Mountain Poem
   I'm in Love with You Who Is in Love with Me

   Poetry by Cid Corman

   Taneda Santōka, Walking by Myself Again
   Scott Watson, Quake Notes

   Poetry by John Martone

   Poetry by Robert West

   Poetry by Jeremy Halinen

   Michael Rumaker, A Day and A Night at the Baths
   Leverett T. Smith, Jr., Eroticizing the Nation: Michael Rumaker's Fiction
   Megan Paslawski, editor, "Like a Great Armful of Wild & Wonderful Flowers"
   Michael Rumaker, Black Mountain Days

   Edited by Ross Hair

   Edited by Helen Vendler

   Poetry by Stanley Barber

   Thomas R. Smith & James P. Lenfestey, editors, Robert Bly in this World
   Robert Bly, Talking into the Ear of a Donkey
Reviews
Ricks Carson
   Cherryl Floyd-Miller, Exquisite Heats
Jeff Davis
   Richard Owens, Delaware Memoranda
   Nathaniel Tarn, Ins and Outs of the Forest Rivers
Patrick James Dunagan
   John Phillips, What Shape Sound
Sue Farlow
   Thomas Rain Crowe, The Blue Rose of Venice
Michael Ferguson
   Sheila Coghill & Thom Tammaro, editors
Brian Gilmore
   Gil Scott-Heron, Reflections
Reginald Harris
   Roberto Bolaño, The Romantic Dogs
   Evie Shockley, Renegade Poetics: Black Aesthetics and Formal Innovations in African-American Poetry
Kathleen Hellen
   Junzaburō Nishiwaki, The Modern Fable
Don Hendershot
   Thomas Rain Crowe, Crack Light
Josh Hockensmith
   Stephen Addiss, The Art of Haiku: Its History through Poems and Paintings by Japanese Masters
   Richard Gilbert, Poems of Consciousness: Contemporary Japanese & English-Language Haiku in Cross-cultural Perspective
Luisa A. Igloria
   Marly Youmans, The Throne of Psyche: Poems
Janet Lembke
   Wendell Berry, The Mad Farmer Poems
Gina Marie LoBianco
John Martone
David Need
Christopher Rizzo
   Andrew Hughes, Sweethearts of the Great Migration
   Andrew Hughes, Now Lays the Sunshine By
   Jess Mynes, Sky Brightly Picked
Mark Spitzer
   Charles Bukowski, The Flash of Lightning Behind the Mountain: New Poems
Marly Youmans
   Bei Dao, The Rose of Time: New & Selected Poems