New American Writing #23
244 Pages
2005



Fady Joudah
          Five Poems by Mahmoud Darwish
Mahmoud Darwish
          Thanks to Tunis
          I Have a Seat in the Abandoned Theater
          In Syria
          In Egypt
          Like a Mysterious Incident
Efraín Kristal
         The Black Heralds
César Vallejo
          The Stones
          Half Light
          Dregs
          Huaco
          White Rose
          Dictum
          Fresco
          Unity
Clayton Eshleman
          Chauvet, Left Wall of End Chamber
          From a Terrace
Elizabeth Robinson
          The Buoyant
Donald Revell
          Election Year
          On My Fiftieth Birthday
          Hallowe’en, Blue Diamond, Nevada
Anna Rabinowitz
          From The Book of Mandate as Helotry
George Albon
          Poem Beginning with a Line of Prose
          Realistic Battery
          I Had
Andrew Joron
          Voiceover (Desert)
          Home Unknown Stone
Stephen Ratcliffe
          From CLOUD / RIDGE
Dara Wier
          Those are Leaves on Fire
Noelle Kocot
          After His Woman is Killed . . .
          Without
          For Damon
Connie Deanovich
          Though We Wanted It to Stay
          Horizon, Soldier
          Autumnal Equinox
Timothy Liu
         Romance
         Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi
Linh Dinh
          Bearings
          A Super Clean Country
          Continuous Bullets Over Flattened Earth
Dan Beachy-Quick
          Lullaby
          Lullaby
          Demonstrative Lullaby
          Lullaby
Joseph Lease
          Try
          Baolin Cheng Glass
          Running Across My Wife at a Subway Station

          The New Canadian Poetry

Todd Swift
          The New Canadian Poetry
Lisa Robertson
          Wooden Houses
Jason Camlot
          Daddy Lazarus
George Murray
          Small Town Marathon
          All Angles and Swinging Handles
          A Moment’s Autograph
          Collusion
Christian Bök
          Ten Maps of Sardonic Wit
          Vowels
          From Virtual Realities
          NOYTA CCCP
          Sina Queyras Later
          Meditation on a Swallow and One Peony
          Ms. Forrest, Ten Years After
          The Smugglers
          Ablation Zone
          The Meat Painter
          If I Weren’t So Miserable . . .
Tammy Armstrong
          After Snake River Canyon Jump
          Years After Charlotte Street
          After Angie There Was a Fear
Carmine Starnino
          Money
          Homemade
          Accident
Louise Bak
          Rock ‘n’ Roll
          Alaya
          Dim Sum
David McGimpsey
          Please Don’t Make Me Read Your Blog
          Silverfish Anniversary
          Architeuthis
Jon Paul Fiorentino
          Earle Nelson’s Song
          Schlocktober
          Introductory (THE THEORY . . .)
          Strafed
Nathalie Stephens
          From Touch to Affliction
Stephanie Bolster
          The Future
          Topiary
          Bagatelle
John Stiles
          House for the Rural Poor
          Record of a Tractor
          Little Buggers My Mom
Mark Cochrane
          Honeymoon
          In the Olfactory Lobe
          Keeping House
          J. C. Wilber Building
Paul Vermeersch
          My Life in Black Outline
Lisa Pasold
          So What If It Is
          Faith
          Weather
          Coastline
Ken Babstock
          The Nabokov-Wilson Letters
          “Miles of Europe went by . . .”
          Franconia
Bill Kennedy & Darren Wershler-Henry
          (Thrown Out for Lack of Evidence)
          (Driving a Gas-Guzzling 71 Impala)
          (A Pretense to Universality)
Ray Hsu
          Cabinet of Antiques
          Chamber Music

Aaron Shurin
          Avatar
Gloria Frym
          Medicate Specific
John Cross & G.C. Waldrep
          Topography of Muses
          The Flint-Lock
Kari Edwards
          Obedience: 127
Matthew Cooperman
          It Is Absence We Cultivate . . .
Bobbi Lurie
          Strange Light
Stacy Doris
          From Knot
Larry Kearney
          From This Will Be My
Chet Wiener
          From Lobby as Thrill
Sarah Riggs
          From Pigments
Laynie Browne
          From Original Presence
Philip Metres
          Questions for Sergey Gandlevsky

          Nine Vietnamese Poets

Paul Hoover
          Nine Vietnamese Poets
Dang Dinh Hung
          From The New Horizon
Van Cao
          Three Variations at 65 Years Old
Hoàng Hung
          A Man Returning Home
          Black Dog, Black Night
          The Madwoman
Thanh Thao
          March 12
          To Suddenly Remember
          A Soldier Speaks of His Generation
Nguyen Do
          A Symphony of Friendship
          The Unlucky Days
          Mission
Nhat Le
          Myself
          When I’m 23
Nguyen Quang Thieu
          The Spirits of Cows
Vi Thuy Linh
          Lying Down Forever with the Meadow
Nguyen Duy
          Looking Home from Far Away

Sharon Dolin
          Be, as in Flotsam
          Tea Lay
Anne Shaw
          Shibboleth
          Aegean
Carl Martin
          We Are in Linguistic Accord
Sally Keith
          When What It Is Takes Off
Amy Pence
          A Year of Roses
Mark Pawlak
          The Sharper the Berry
Neil Shepard
          C’est Dommage
Elizabeth Swados
          Goodbye to Words
          King Devil
Kathleen Ossip
          From Cinephrastics
Marc Cohen
          A Long Time Back
Susan Firer
          From Punctuation
Jordan Stempleman
          Movement
          SuZi (After 9 Volt)
          (Coconut After Mirror)
Lara Glenum
          The Eggs of My Amnesia
          The Hairiest Room of All
Colleen Lookingbill
          Nostalgia
Barbara Tomash
          From Flying in Water
Evonne Acevedo
          Half-rise
          I Am the Steely Dan of Poetry
Jesse Nissim
          House
Kostas Anagnopoulos
          April
Chad Sweeney
          Essence
          A Stairway Down
Logan Ryan Smith
          [Nymph In]
Tony Hooper
          Maudite
          QRA
Chip Livingston
          Absence Is Not Here
Steven and Maja Teref
          Two Poems by NovicaTadiæ
Novica Tadiæ
          The Red Locust
          Smithereens