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VALPARAISO POETRY REVIEW
Contemporary Poetry and Poetics



 
Volume VI, Number 1
Editor:  Edward Byrne

Fall/Winter 2004-2005
 


Cover art: Paul Sierra (b. 1944)
Family Portrait, oil on canvas  60/90
Sloan Fund Purchase (92.8)
Brauer Museum of Art
 

FEATURED POET:

ADRIANNE KALFOPOULOU
 



~CONTENTS~
 

POETRY
 

Adrianne Kalfopoulou

 "Holy Agony"

 

Charles Israel

 "At the South Carolina Home for the Feeble-Minded, 1857"
 

Jackie Bartley

 "The Moon through Blue Glass"


Ricardo Pau-Llosa

 "Flight to L.A."
 

Anne Wilson

"Taranto"
 

J.L. Torres

 "Legacy"
 

Muriel Nelson

"In a Fog"  

H. Palmer Hall

 "Something"
 
"A Sonnet for Napalm"


Patricia Fargnoli

"'Oh, So You're Doing a Handbook Again'"
 

Donald Stinson

 "As in Certain Paintings of Paul Klee"
 
"On Three Hats of My Father's"


Rochelle Ratner

 "Fish Tank"
 

Gary Lechliter

"Bobby Signs Bluegrass"
 

Amanda Auchter

"Photograph, April 1956"
 
"Wasteland of Parts"


Kirk M. Wright

"Explaining the Moon"
 

Miriam N. Kotzin

"Remission"
 

Mike Chasar

"Echinoidea Freddy"
 
 
 

REVIEWS
 

Joseph Powell

"Adrianne Kalfopoulou: Wild Greens"
 

Diane Lockward

"Ann Fisher-Wirth: Blue Window"
 

Daniel Pinkerton

"Elaine Sexton: Sleuth"
 

Patricia Fargnoli

"Ilya Kaminsky: Dancing in Odessa"


M.J. Bender

"Sharon Dolin: Serious Pink"


Edward Byrne

"Rita Dove: American Smooth"
 

COVER ART
 

Gregg Hertzlieb

"Paul Sierra: Family Portrait"
 
 

CONTRIBUTORS' NOTES


Recent and Recommended Books
 

  Submission Guidelines and Correspondence
 
 

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