Fall 2007

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Birding with Lanioturdus
Peter Orner

John Ashbery, poet, New York, September 27, 1983
Richard Avedon

Editors’ Note
Bradford Morrow and Peter Gizzi

A Flock Descends into the Pentagonal Garden
Howard Norman

Pan, Pan, Pan
Yannick Murphy

Three Early Works
John Ashbery

Tears Streak the Reddest Rouge
Anne Waldman

Vagrant Voices: Some Atlantic Crossings
Tim Dee

After Completion
Arthur Sze

Three Poems
Sylvia Legris

Three Essays from the Warbler Road
Merrill Gilfillan

From The Tinajera Notebook
Forrest Gander

Owl Puke
Diane Ackerman

Catalog and Brief Comments on the Archive Written and Compiled by the Ministry of Sorrow to Birds
J’Lyn Chapman

Sandhills in Chukotka
D. E. Steward

Ave Maria
Micaela Morrissette

Cardinal in a Forsythia
Rick Moody

Five Poems
Eric Linsker

Ascending Flight, Los Angeles
Nathaniel Tarn

Crow & Robin
Elizabeth Robinson

Time Bends
Maureen Howard

Bird Cantos
John Kinsella

Like Something Christenberry Pictured
C. D. Wright

The Imaginary Dead Baby Seagull
David Shields

A Song Unbroken
Melanie Rae Thon

Four Birds
Joseph Campana

Garden
William H. Gass

The Secret Conversing of Birds
Martine Bellen

Two Intimacy Poems
Catherine Imbriglio

Zvirbulis
Sven Birkerts

Only in the Light of Lost Words Can We Imagine Our Rewards (Some Trees, 1956)
Reginald Shepherd

The Oath Unbroken (The Tennis Court Oath, 1962)
Peter Straub

The Meandering Yangtze (Rivers and Mountains, 1966)
Charles Bernstein

The Art of Curling (A Nest of Ninnies, with James Schuyler, 1969)
Brian Evenson

The Double Dream of Spring Would Like to Make a Few Statements (The Double Dream of Spring, 1970)
Marjorie Welish

Four Contexts for Three Poems (Three Poems, 1972)
Ron Silliman

A Birthday Notebook for JA (The Vermont Notebook, 1975)
David Shapiro

I Was Reading and Rereading Ashbery\'s Self-Portrait for Many Years (Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror, 1975)
Susan Stewart

A Long Period of Adjustment Followed (Houseboat Days, 1977)
Brenda Hillman

Ashbery’s Theater (Three Plays, 1978)
Kevin Killian

What We Know as We Know It: Reading “Litany” With JA (As We Know, 1979)
Ann Lauterbach

Shadowboxing (Shadow Train, 1981)
Rae Armantrout

A Place from Which to Wave: \"Just Someone You Say Hi To\" (A Wave, 1984)
Graham Foust

Energy (April Galleons, 1987)
Eileen Myles

A Magically Alive Aesthetic (Reported Sightings, 1989)
Jed Perl

The Refleciton of a Reading (Flow Chart, 1991)
Ben Lerner

Besides, of Bedouins (Hotel Lautréamont, 1992)
Cole Swensen

This Very Poem Refutes It (And the Stars Were Shining, 1994)
Marcella Durand

I Believe I Am the Man from Nowhere (Can You Hear, Bird, 1995)
Christian Hawkey

Like the Blistered Exterior of a Sigh (Wakefulness, 1998)
Anselm Berrigan

Tragi-Kitsch & Elegiac-Comix (Girls on the Run, 1999)
Joan Retallack

Besides Being Beside Ourselves (Your Name Here, 2000)
Richard Deming

Changeable Hieroglyphics (Other Traditions, 2000, and Selected Prose, 2004)
Geoffrey O&rsquo and Brien

I\'m Not Sure I Meant What You Said (Chinese Whispers, 2002)
Robert Kelly

Four Questions (Where Shall I Wander, 2005)
James Longenbach

Would That a Worldly Country We Were (A Worldly Country, 2007)
Susan Wheeler