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1. Letter from the Editors

Dear Readers,

On Tuesday we continue our series of prose features with "I Demand to Speak with God," Kay Ryan's review of The Notebooks of Robert Frost, edited by Robert Faggen, from the September issue of Poetry:

"Reading Frost's private notebooks is the opposite of pulling back the curtain on Oz. While the real Oz turns out to be a little man working a big speaker system, the real Frost turns out to be someone naturally—preternaturally—amplified even when nobody else is listening."

Look for it on Tuesday on our news page.

We hope you enjoy this week's poems!

Warmest regards,

Don Selby & Diane Boller
Editors

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2. Sponsor Messages

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Colrain & Compleat Poetry Manuscript Conferences
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Faculty for 2007 includes editors and publishers Jeffrey Levine (Tupelo Press), Martha Rhodes (Four Way Books), Jeffrey Shotts (Graywolf Press), Chase Twichell (Ausable Press), Michael Simms (Autumn House Press) and others; workshop leaders include Joan Houlihan (Concord Poetry Center); Frederick Marchant (Suffolk University), Ellen Doré Watson (Smith College), Daniel Tobin (Emerson College) and others.

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3. Poetry News Links

News and reviews from around the web, updated daily:

• David Biespiel examines Stanley Plumly's "A Silent Heart Attack". (Oregon Live)
• Robert Pinsky introduces "Keatsian" by Stanley Plumly. (The Washington Post)
• James Campbell discovers Brian Turner's Here, Bullet. (Guardian Unlimited)
• Mike Marqusee makes the case for Bob Dylan as poet.(Guardian Unlimited)
• Ted Kooser introduces a poem by Devon Regina DeSalva. (American Life in Poetry)

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4. Selected New Arrivals

These and other new arrivals are available for purchase via Poetry Daily/Amazon.com.

• Charlestown Blues: Selected Poems, Guy Goffette, tr. Marilyn Hacker
• Selected Translations: Poems, Ted Hughes, ed. Daniel Weissbort
• To a Fault, Nick Laird
• Cloud Moving Hands, Cathy Song
• Night Clerk at the Hotel of Both Worlds, Angela Ball
• Ocean Effects, Brendan Galvin

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5. This Week’s Featured Poets

Monday - Nick Laird
Tuesday - Ray DiPalma
Wednesday - Paulo Henriques Britto / tr. Idra Novey
Thursday - Cathy Song
Friday - Guy Goffette / tr. Marilyn Hacker
Saturday - Brendan Galvin
Sunday - Bernadette Mayer

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6. Featured Poets September 3 - September 9, 2007

These and other past featured poets may be found in our archive:

Monday - Donald Platt
Tuesday - Thom Gunn
Wednesday - Mary Kinzie
Thursday - Charles Baudelaire / tr. Keith Waldrop
Friday - Jennifer Atkinson
Saturday - Elizabeth Lindsay Rogers
Sunday - Jeffrey Harrison

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7. Last Year’s Featured Poets

These poems will be retired from our archive during the coming week.

Barbara Lau - "Two Degrees & Falling"
Frank Bidart - "Lament for the Makers"
Daniel Tobin - "As Angels in Some Brighter Dreams"
Julie O'Callaghan - "Brightly Knitted Bolivian Ch'ullu"
BJ Ward - "Cuckoldom"
Jenny Joseph - "In Memory of Philip Stone"
Laura Bernstein-Machlay - "Johnny's Ham Paradise—Come On In Today! Fort Street, Detroit"

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8. Poem From Last Year

As Angels in Some Brighter Dreams

         For Sally, who kept the shop ...

   Even you gone into a world of light,
Or some metaphysical luncheonette
   That smells in death of your shop's mélange—
Cheeseburger, brisket, baba ganouj.
   It's seven a.m. in eternity.
Egg on a roll, a doughnut and coffee ...
   The ghost commuters queue at the counter.
You greet each with ethereal banter,
   Filling every want with foreknowledge
As you did in life, poised as Queen Noor,
   Magisterial behind your register.
Here at last is my Brooklyn beyond change,
   Moored and palpable as any mirage.
On the wall the cedars of Lebanon
   Flame green in a vale of whitewashed homes,
Your village limned by shutter and lens
   Into the split second of a sixth sense.
Had I grown up in your paradise
   Of biblical resplendence, an oasis—
Judging by the photograph—from the desert
   Of gain and loss, hatred, self-regard,
I might have stayed, believed home the reward
   I longed for, though I'd covet the promise
Of life exalted in a gleaming city.
   If so, time in the village that I'd left
Wouldn't be, in the great scheme, very different
   From where I found myself: the daily round
In a landscape of storefronts and row houses,
   Apartment prospects with their towers
Of skyscrapers across the teeming river,
   And that absence soaring above the harbor
Like a monument to anyone's lost world.
   If I sit here long enough with spirits
Of the neighborhood dead eating breakfast
   I might see against the iridescent haze
Of your ancient plate glass windowpanes
   My parents easing into their booth,
Regular as clockwork or ritual,
   Though they wouldn't see me, still corporeal,
On my stool-perch beside the chalk specials.
   How strange to know death made them happy.
How rich they'd seem like the others, Sally,
   Who look pleased this modest heaven is all
As they crowd in, ordering the usual.

Daniel Tobin
The Hudson Review
Summer 2006

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