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VALPARAISO POETRY REVIEW
Contemporary Poetry and Poetics



 
Volume IV, Number 2
Editor:  Edward Byrne

Spring/Summer 2003
 

Cover art: Ed Paschke (American, b. 1939)
Strano, 1997: Oil on Canvas
Gift of Josephine L. Ferguson and Byron L. Ferguson
Brauer Museum of Art: 97.09
 

FEATURED POET:

BERNARDINE EVARISTO
 


~CONTENTS~
 

POETRY
 

Bernardine Evaristo

 "Londinium Tour Guide (Unofficial)"

 "The Betrothal"

 "The Price You Pay, My Beautiful Wife"

 

Claire Bateman

 "Another Poem on Blue"
 

Jeff Friedman

 "Two Salesmen (Sunday Night, Fall 1961)"
 

Ann Fisher-Wirth

 "Sweetgum Country"
 

Steven Schroeder

"South from Sweetwater"
 

Alice Friman

 "This April"
 

Cyril Dabydeen

"Anaconda's Doubt"
 

Kim Bridgford

 "Remembrance"
 

James R. Whitley

"Nights of Gin and Ashes"
 

Liz Tilton

 "Alto"
 

R.G. Evans

 "Forecast"
 

Z. Michael Jack

"Postcard, 1959: Coon Rapids, Iowa. Halcyon Days"

"1955: An Incendiary Year in the Register, Claiming"
 

Pamela Garvey

"The Wasp Nest Growing Inside Our Window Frame"
 

Ace Boggess

"'What Is Your Favorite Movie?'"
 

Laura Lee Washburn

"How to Live in This World"
 

Charles Fishman

"Passing September"
 
 
 

INTERVIEW
 

Karen McCarthy

"Q & A with Bernardine Evaristo"
 
 

REVIEWS
 

Adrianne Kalfopoulou

"Beth Ann Fennelly: Open House"
 

Kevin Arnold

"The Only Constant Is the Page Number: Brenda Hillman's Cascadia"
 

Jeffrey Alfier

"Two Anthologies of War Poetry: The Wound and the Dream: Sixty Years of American Poems about the Spanish Civil War and Rendezvous with Death: American Poems of the Great War"
 

Edward Byrne

"The Transformative Lyric: Gregory Orr's The Caged Owl: New and Selected Poems, Poetry as Survival, and The Blessing"
 
 
 

COVER ART
 

Gregg Hertzlieb

"Ed Paschke: Strano"
 
 

CONTRIBUTORS' NOTES


Recent and Recommended Books
 

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