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VALPARAISO POETRY REVIEW
Contemporary Poetry and Poetics



 
Volume IX, Number 2
Editor:  Edward Byrne

Spring/Summer 2008
 


Cover art: Frederic Edwin Church (b. 1826 - d. 1900)
Mountain Landscape, ca. 1849
  Oil on Canvas, 14.5 x 19.75 inches

Brauer Museum of Art, 53.01.107

 

FEATURED POET:

LYNNELL EDWARDS
 



~CONTENTS~
 

POETRY
 

Lynnell Edwards

 "Hunt"

Julia Kasdorf

 "Seasonal Work"
 

Brent Goodman

 "Monona Bay"


Mary Biddinger

 "Saint Monica Burns It Down"

"The Last Man She Ever Knew"


Vincent Wixon

"Simple Pleasures"
 

Patricia Fargnoli

 "The Swankeeper"

"Midnight in the Moabi Tree"
 

Martin Walls

"A Bend in Onondaga Creek" 


Frannie Lindsay

 "Keeping a Tropical Plant Alive in the North"

 "Mercies"
 

Lex Runciman

"'I Noticed the Peaches'"
 

Chris Ellis

 "Morning" 

"Heavy Snow"


Joey Nicoletti

 "Maintenance"
 

Jennifer MacPherson

"Aphasia"
 

Sean David Ross

"Yartzeit"


April Lindner

"Her Hands"
 

Greg McBride

"The Occupation"

"Dead Man's Word"
 

Joanne Lowery

"At the Farmer's Market, Death"
 

Don Schofield

"First Journey Alone" 

 
Ronda Broatch

  "Impermanence"


Doug Ramspeck

  "Waterborne"


Carol V. Davis 

"Porto and Sherry Sandeman (an advertising poster, 1931)"

Peter Cooley
 
"The Climbers"

Lightsey Darst
  
"June"


Peggy Miller
  
"Trees and Air"



ESSAY


Jeffrey Frank

"Poetry and the Cosmopolitan: Zbigniew Herbert's Collected Poems"



R
EVIEWS

 

Kristin Abraham

"Kate Northrop: Things Are Disappearing Here"

 

John Findura

"Sarah Manguso: Siste Viator"
 

Peggy Miller

"The Poetry of the Observer: Bobbi Lurie's Letter from the Lawn"


Laura Madeline Wiseman

"Memory, Violence, and Forgiveness: Listening for the Music in Rosemary Winslow's Green Bodies"


Edward Byrne

"Standing Straight in the Sparking Storm: Lynnell Edwards' The Highwayman's Wife"
 


C
OVER ART

 

Gregg Hertzlieb

"Frederic Edwin Church: Mountain Landscape"
 
 


CONTRIBUTORS' NOTES


Recent and Recommended Books
 

  Submission Guidelines and Correspondence
 
 

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