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VALPARAISO POETRY REVIEW
Contemporary Poetry and Poetics



 
Volume IV, Number 1
Editor:  Edward Byrne

Fall/Winter 2002-2003
 

Cover art: Timothy Van Laar (American, b. 1951)
Shadow Pictures, 1984: Oil on Canvas, 36" x 48"
Sloan Fund Purchase
Brauer Museum of Art: 86.22
 
 

FEATURED POETS:
 

DAVID GRAHAM
 


 
 
 

KATE SONTAG
 



 

~CONTENTS~
 

POETRY
 

David Graham

 "Self-Portrait Against Dream"

 "Annabelle's Story"

 "Strange Glitter"

 

Kate Sontag

 "Migration"

 "American Honeymoon Lyric, Circa 1987"

"Second Nature"
 

Billy Collins

 "Fiftieth Birthday Eve"
 

William Matthews

 "On the Porch at the Frost Place, Franconia, N.H."
 

Stanley Plumly

"'The Morning America Changed'"
 

Colette Inez

 "Doors"
 

Alicia Ostriker

"Surface/Draft 6"
 

Brendan Galvin

 "A Neolithic Meditation"
 

Carol Frost

"One Fine Day"
 

Pamela Gemin

 "What's Going On"
 

Kimberly Blaeser

 "Apprenticed to Justice"
 

Michael Dobberstein

"Autobiography"

"Our Story"
 

Rick Mulkey

"Connecting the Dots"
 

Barbara Crooker

"Driving Under the Clerestory of Leaves"
 

Bernhard Hillila

"Sand Mining"
 

Larry Thomas

"Goldfish"
 

Nathan S. Jones

"Man Looking into the Sea"
 
 

ESSAYS
 

David Graham

"Voluminous Underwear: or, Why I Write Self-Portraits"
 

Kate Sontag

"Mother, May I?: Writing with Love"
 

Andrew Mulvania

"Confessions of St. Charles: Confession as Spiritual Autobiography in the Work of Charles Wright"
 

Edward Byrne

"Examining the Poetry of Confession and Autobiography: After Confession: Poetry as Autobiography"
 
 

REVIEW
 

Catherine Daly

"Miltons: Susan Mitchell's Erotikon 
and Carol Frost's Love and Scorn: 
New and Selected Poems"
 
 
 

COVER ART
 

Gregg Hertzlieb

"Timothy Van Laar: Shadow Pictures"
 
 

CONTRIBUTORS' NOTES


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