Colorado Review Summer 2005

Contents

Fiction

Paul Mandelbaum

Adriane and the Fibroid Tumor

Ann Hood

Emily Dickinson Was Not My Mother

Victoria Barrett

Better as a Wish

Bret Lott

What I Am Beginning I Cannot Say

 

Nonfiction

Robin Black

The Answer That Increasingly Appeals

 

Book Notes

Last Call

by K. L. Cook

reviewed by Nicole Backens

3.14159+

by Lois Hirshkowitz

reviewed by Derek Pollard

Gilead

by Marilynne Robinson

reviewed by Karen Hollenbeck

My Father’s Rifle: A Childhood in Kurdistan

by Hiner Saleem

reviewed by Brendan Wolfe

 

 

Special Poetics Feature: “Trouble in the Garden”

Matthew Cooperman (Guest Editor)

Introduction

John Kinsella

Poetics Recidivous and the De-poetics of Lightning, Herbicides, and Pesticides

Cal Bedient

Other Wars

Your Blue Hurts Our Green Like a Ladder Pointing the Wrong Way Out of Raw

Mark Bibbins

An Opiate Coating of Disregard Prevails

Cynthia Cruz

Praying

Richard Deming

Oh

A Fragment of Anything You Like

Shira Dentz

Permutations

Wayne Dodd

Perihelion/Aphelion

Holocenic

Ed Dorn

Low Coups and Haut Coups

Joshua Edwards

Science vs. Luck

Graham Foust

Aphoristic

Graveyard Shift

John Gallaher

How to Haunt the Living

The War President’s Afternoon Tea

Mark Halliday

& Martin Stannard

The Roquefort Not Taken

Tangerines in the Afterlife

Hoag Holmgren

Gertrude Stein

Joseph Goebbels

Fanny Howe

More than Enough

John Isles

From “The Arcadia Negotiations”

Nancy Kuhl
Almanac

Struck

Michael Magee

Fascist Fairy Tales (1)

Fascist Fairy Tales (3)

Richard Meier

Shaken

Sandra Miller

ingress.

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[in hernani]

Tedi López Mills (trans. by Wendy Burk)

Hic et Nunc

Questions

Ethan Paquin

Beautiful Nighttime Churches

Tigers

Kevin Prufer

Army Tales

There Is No Audience for Poetry

Sam Reed

Poppies

Arthur Rimbaud (trans. by John Kinsella)

Morts de Quatre-vingt-douze et de Quatre-vingt-treize . . .

Elizabeth Robinson

Studies for Hell: One

Studies in Hell: Four

Why They Were Faithful

Martha Ronk

Melancholia 1912

The Anguish of Departure by De Chirico

The Soothsayer’s Recompense by De Chirico (departure

Cole Swensen

The Garden as a Letter

The Garden as a Map Drawn for Louis XIV

Of the Insistent Equation of Opposites

Rosmarie Waldrop

Our Ears Are Now in Excellent Condition

Dean Young

From the Get-Go

Blue Curtain