APR Volume 38, Issue 5 (PDF)

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September/October, 2009

p. 3
Countless Cries: Father Gerard Manley Hopkins
Spencer Reece

p. 7
Insomnia & Other Poems
Alicia Ostriker

p. 9
At the Pumpkin Festival, My Lips Burn Bright
Aimee Nezhukumatathil

p. 11
[I am made of butter, I am wrapped in gold,] & [Tinsel’s cold stove, first like]
Joshua Beckman

p. 13
Disgrace and Oblivion in Ancient Rome & Laughter
James Hoch

p. 15
Notes on Not Writing: Revisiting The Changing Light at Sandover
Jason Schneiderman
A Column

p. 22
The Judges of Craft
Thomas Sayers Ellis

p. 25
Between Lions Talking and Lions Feeding
Tom Sleigh
In the Studio

p. 27
Self-Portrait with Shoulder Pads & Other Poems
Tom Sleigh
A Special APR Supplement

p. 32
An Excerpt from 100 Notes on Violence
Julie Carr

p. 35
Cars and Culture: The Hirohata Merc—So Cool
Jack DeWitt
A Column

p. 38
Stone and Knife & Other Poems
Jane Hirshfield

p. 40
Read the Signs & Other Poems
Patrick Donnelly

p. 42
The World Outside: A Letter to Baudelaire About Walter Benjamin & Other Poems
Lynn Emanuel

p. 44
The Garden
Heather Winterer

p. 45
Dogfight & About Deliverance
Jaamil Olawale Kosoko

p. 46
Ming
Stephen Cramer

p. 47
Ecstatic Émigré: A Concrete Memoir (to my students)
Claudia Keelan
A Column

p. 51
Horses Running Fast & Other Poems
Shane McCrae

p. 52
Darkness on the Edge of Toast
Ryan Van Winkle

p. 53
Nine Poems on “Hamatzav”
Ruhama Weiss, Dalia Fallah, Varda Genossar, Shin Shifra, Moshe Dor, Ronny Someck, Eytan Eytan, Shai Dotan, & Anadad Eldan, translated by Barbara Goldberg & Moshe Dor

p. 54
Letter
Dean Young

p. 56
Delenda Undone
Patrick Rosal