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VALPARAISO POETRY REVIEW
Contemporary Poetry and Poetics



 
Volume III, Number 1
Editor:  Edward Byrne

Fall/Winter 2001-2002
 

Cover art: Helen Frankenthaler (b. 1928) Madame Butterfly, 2000
Woodcut triptych on handmade paper, 41 3/4 x 79 1/2 inches
Brauer Museum of Art: 2001.4
 
 

FEATURED POET: VIRGIL SUAREZ
 



 
 

~CONTENTS~
 
 
 

POETRY
 

Virgil Suarez

 "Song to the Banyan"

 "Song for the Cucuyo"

 "Uncle Isidoro"


Jill Peláez Baumgaertner

 "Uprooted"

 "How She Became a Ziegfeld Girl"
 

Daniel Henry

 "Jumpshots in the Dark"
 

Marianne Poloskey

 "Cape May"

"Graveyard at Saarbruecken"
 

David Bond

 "At the Annual Thresherman's Show"
 

Leigh Kirkland

 "Flautist at the Al Fresco Wedding"
 

Gregg Hertzlieb

"Scraper"
 

Thea S. Kuticka

 "At the Department of Motor Vehicles Division"
 

Roger Pfingston

 "Mountain Fog"

"Parking, 1958"
 

Robert Lietz

"Street-Class Harmonies (1)"
 

Rebecca Reynolds

"From Latin Insula or Island"
 

Robert James Berry

"Maps"
 
 

INTERVIEW
 

Ryan G. Van Cleave

"La Poesia Está en El Corazón: Virgil Suarez's Transformation from Novelist to Poet"
 
 

REVIEWS
 

David Craig

"Jill Peláez Baumgaertner: Finding Cuba"
 

Ana Doina

"Only a First Step: Marianne Poloskey's Climbing the Shadows"
 

Catherine Daly

"Maggie Anderson: Windfall: New and Selected Poems"
 

Edward Byrne

"To Recover the Poet: Larry Levis's Elegy, The Selected Levis, and The Gazer Within"
 
 
 

COVER ART
 

Gregg Hertzlieb

"Madame Butterfly:A Spectacular Woodcut Triptych by Helen Frankenthaler"
 
 

CONTRIBUTORS' NOTES


Recent and Recommended Books
 

  Submission Guidelines and Correspondence