Winter 1997
New Series · Volume XIX Number 1

contents

FICTION

• Thomas Glave • The Pit
• Edie Meidav • Into the House of Desire

ESSAYS

• Geeta Kothari • If You Are What You Eat, Then What Am I?
• Alison Booth • The Mother of All Cultures
• Ronald A. Sharp • Keats and Friendship

TRANSLATIONS

• George Seferis • "Quid [...] Opacissimus?"
  poetry translated by Avi Sharon
• Zbigniew Herbert • Home; The Wolf and the Sheep; Clock;
  A Suicide poetry translated by John and Bogdana Carpenter
• Ruby Rahman • To You, Rabindrahath; Left Behind
  poetry translated by Carolyne Wright and Syed Manzoorul Islam

POETRY

• Ludia Perillo • Short Course in Semiotics; The Odds
• Virgil Suarez • Arroz
• Rabindra K. Swain • Sons and Fathers
• Kelly Cherry • The Model Looks at Her Portrait; A Retrospective;
  Rising Venus; Learning to Live with Stone
• Sharon Dolin •Life Is Not What You
• D. Nurkse• The Swiftness with Which Those Cities Fell;
  Rooms by the Night or Hour
• Robin Behn • Still Life; Whether or Not There Are Apples
• Frank X. Gaspar • Field Guide to the Heavens; The Tree
• Susan Hahn • Guardian
• Anthony Walton • Celestial Mechanics; five others
• Susan Wood • Leafing
• Stephen Sandy • Late Cretaceous Reverie
• Liz Rosenberg • Sunburn; The Unmentionable; Desire
• Jim Daniels • Shedding the Vestments
• Jeffrey Harrison • Horseshoe Contest; Renewing My Passport
• Marc J. Straus • Horseshoes; A Half Billion
• Sandra McPherson • The Life Concise; Jeffrey Dahmer's Boots;
  My Daughter Visits Me at High Camp, Placer County, on My Fifty-second Birthday
• Reginald Shepherd • Another Unclassical
  Eclogue; Solstice as Demon Lover
• Meg Tyler • The Good-bye; Emissary; Impiety
• Steven Sherrill • Manifesto; What They Know about Love
• Irene McKinney • Fame; The Surgery
• Wayne Koestenbaum • Metamorphoses (excerpts)
• Mary Jo Salter • Distance; Up and Down

REVIEW

• Willard Spiegelman • What to Make of an Augmented Thing
  The Collected Works of Amy Clampitt

KENYON REVIEW NEW VOICES

• David Bergman • Banner Year (introduction)
• Keith Banner • The Smallest People Alive (fiction)