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POETRY / Autumn 1978

Mein Liebchen, Was Willst Du Noch Mehr?

By Boris Pasternak

Arrows dash down the wall.
Time crawls like a cockroach. 
Wait, don’t toss the plates

Summer 1997

My Perfect Night

By David Bottoms
Spring 1976

In A Year of Burning, 1975

By Malovika Mukerji
Spring 1997

To Cure Itself

By David Ignatow
Autumn 1976

Browbeaten By Humpty Dumpty, Or Quitting the Liberal Label

By Murat Williams
Winter 1997

Axiom of Maria

By Larissa Szporluk
Winter 1977

Man’s Fate In the Aeneid

By David M. Halperin
POETRY / Autumn 1996

The Shore of Ashkelon

By Yehuda Amichai

Here at the shore of Ashkelon we arrived at
the end of memory
like rivers that reach the sea.

Spring 1977

The Man With Change

By Wyatt Prunty
Summer 1996

Necessity

By Elaine Terranova