56 Contents v.2 n.1 Editor's Note 8 Susan Mitchell 9    The Grove at Nemi   Michael Craig 11    I'm Resting Autumnal Melancholy Raindrops Streak the Windows Like They Do in the Movies Brute Mystic Winter   Claudia Keelan 19    Debts: before the after-wards Oar Dust   Christopher Davis 22    Prayer for Reunification   Judith Katz Levine 24    Poem in the Voice of a Novel: 6 Letter from the Catskills Lengthening Fringed Garment   Cal Bedient 27    Go to the Middle of Anything, It Is a River   Susan McCullough 33    What You See is What You Get: Children's Drawings from the Brooklyn Museum   Stephanie Strickland 35    There is a Woman in a Conical Hat/2   Tracy Philpot 39    nightmute   Eileen Myles 40      The Red Planet   Jason Vincz 45    Eyes with Childproof Lids Table of Contents All English Is Broken   Lisa Isaacson 48    Rocelli Park   Thomas Lux 49    Shoreless Baby Still Crying Swallowed by a Snake   Brighde Mullins 51    Canto,A Brechtian Interlude, Lights Up   Ed Adams 52    fromMemoirs of a Male Secretary   Luljeta Lleshanaku 53    More Than a Retrospective Half-Cubism Out of Boredom   Michael J. McClure    Rule Rend   Cort Day 58    Lung   David Means 59    Coitus   Carley Moore 66    Bottled The Sleepers   Will Alexander 68    The Bedouin Ark   Wallace Stevens 74    Response to Twentieth Century VerseQuestionnaire   What's American About American Poetry? 75    Introduction by Robert Polito What's American About American Precursors? Michael Palmer, Diane Glancy, John Hollander, Thylias Moss What's American About American Subject Matter? Sonia Sanchez, Louise Glück, Jorie Graham, Geoffrey O'Brien   Roy Kortick 88    Paintings   What's American About American Poetry? 98    Introduction by Robert Polito What's American About American Form? Frank Bidart, Rafael Campo, Marilyn Hacker, Ann Lauterbach What's American About American Language? Kimiko Hahn, Robert Creeley, Clayton Eshleman, Sekou Sundiata What's American About American Subject Matter? Geoffrey O'Brien   Cintra Wilson 110    Commuting With Your Inner Milksop, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Read the Froofy Stuff   A Reader Response Query 114 Geoffrey Cruickshank-Hagenbuckle 115    The Elephant's One Ton Trip to Lisbon; Two Train Tickets, Destination Unknown Cradles Stupid as Coffins   Susan McCabe 118    Forgetful   Hoa Nguyen 119    Two poems   Matthew Zapruder 121    Not Me, Not You Scarecrow   Alexander Pushkin 124    A PUSHKIN BICENTENNIAL TRIBUTE The Tale of the Golden Cockrel TRANSLATED AND WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY BETSY HULICK   Ben Miller 134    Kissinger at Peace   Ed Webster 143    Fallen Off in a River Town   Wyn Cooper 144    Oh See Disorder   Geoffrey G. O'Brien 145    Observations on the Florida Question   Tory Dent 149    Birth of a Masochist Operative Truth   Charles Boardman 153    Love as Fear of Love in Laughter   Mary Ruefle 154    Among the Musk Ox People No Comparison The Shorthand of Sensation Seven Postcards from Dover The Tragic Drama of Joy   John Taggart 161    Two Words Two   Reading List 163