APR Volume 45, Issue 5 (PDF)

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September/October, 2016

p. 5
Reduced Sentences
Beth Ann Fennelly

p. 6
What Was Under All That Snow? & Other Poems
Nicole Steinberg

p. 7
Ascendance and Abjection—Reading Latina/o Poetry in the Summer of Trump
Michael Dowdy

p. 14
Confessio Amantis
Donald Revell

p. 16
Crowning & Other Poems
Katy Lederer

p. 19
What Is the Task?
Edward Hirsch

p. 21
How the Story Started & Other Poems
Marie Howe
A Special APR Supplement

p. 24
Deciduous
Jamie Asaye FitzGerald

p. 24
Three Kings & The Book of Job
Dave Lucas

p. 25
Grabbing Lunch in the Morgue & Other Poems
Afaa Michael Weaver

p. 26
Excerpts from Book of Minutes
Gemma Gorga Translated by Sharon Dolin

p. 28
Invocation & November 14
Jesse Nathan

p. 29
New Poetry in Translation — Friendships Between Ghosts
Mira Rosenthal
A Column

p. 32
(Begin with your father’s fear of flowers) & Other Poems
Chris Stroffolino

p. 33
“Outward in larger terms / A mind inhaling exigency”— Adrienne Rich’s Collected Poems: 1950–2012 / Part Two
Ed Pavlić
APR Books

p. 42
The Greek Vase & Other Poems
Carlos Pintado

p. 42
Travel Plans & The Former Us
Marcus Jackson

p. 44
I Put on My Fur Coat
Jane Wong