Includes bibliographical references and author index.
Contents:
Bird feed / Ashlee Adams. Modulation / Richard Powers -- Midsummer / Louise Gluck -- Two hospice essays / Spencer Reece -- Why some girls love horses / Paisley Rekdal -- Our pointy boots / Brock Clarke -- Sunflower / Henri Cole -- I can't write a memoir of Czeslaw Milosz / Adam Zagajewski -- Frieda Pushnik / B. H. Fairchild -- Bonobo Momma / Joyce Carol Oates -- O, Elegant giant / Laura Kasischke -- Rain / Peter Everwine -- Return to Hayneville / Gregory Orr -- Tom & Jerry / Christie Hodgen -- Collector / Frank Bidart -- How to succeed in po biz / Kim Addonizio -- Daddy: 1933 / Geoffrey Brock -- Work and industry in the northern midwest / Luther Magnussen -- The poetrics of Hiroshima / William Heyen -- The crying Indian / Ginger Strand -- Hare at Aldergrove / Paul Muldoon -- We had wondered what animal might arrive / Lydia Davis -- Cinderella / David Moolten -- The arms and legs of the lake / Mary Gaitskill -- Zinc lid / Ted Kooser -- Her own society / Brenda Wineapple -- Epithalamium / Bob Hicok -- Two studies in entropy / Sara Pritchard -- Not there / Maxine Scates -- Tied to history / Greil Marcus -- Metallurgy for dummies / James Richardson -- Edge boys / Charles McLeod -- The favorite / Alison Townsend -- Two experiments and a coda / Lia Purpura -- Devotion: fly / Bruce Smith -- What the world will look like when all the water leaves us / Laura van den Berg -- "This dream the world is having about itself" / Carolyne Wright -- The boneyard / Ben Quick -- I turn my silence over / Kary Wayson -- In Africa / Edward Hoagland -- The good news / David Yezzi -- The points of sail / Sven Birkerts -- For what the hell they needed it for / Joel Brouwer -- Stolpestad / Willaim Lychack -- The kayak and the Eiffel Tower / Fleda Brown -- Accidnet, mass. Ave. / Jill McDonough -- London & a friend / Paul Zimmer -- The homing device comrephended at last / Liz Waldner -- Ethan : a love story / J. C. Hallman -- God's truth is life / Christian Wiman -- Beautiful country / Robert Wrigley -- Put on the petty / Amos Magliocco -- Why the novel is necessary but sometimes hard to read / Marie Howe -- My first reral home / Diane Williams -- Everhting all at once / Austin Bunn -- 1814: the last frost fair / Rita Dvoe -- Time and distance overcome / Eula Biss -- Graduates of western military academy / George Bilgere -- Bijou / Mark Doty -- Soap and ambergris / Yousef Al-Mohaimeed -- The lost glove / Mark Halliday -- The sutra of maggots and blowflies / Sallie Tisdale -- Face / Idris Anderson -- Bird feed / Ashlee Adams.
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