The Four Way Reader

by Arnett, Carlen; Brox, Jane; Orlowsky, Dzvinia; Rhodes, Martha

• ISBN13: 9781884800405
• ISBN10: 1884800408
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-12-01
• Publisher: Four Way Books

Table of Contents

Preface	xiii
Doug Anderson
Xin Loi	3	(1)
North of Tam Ky, 1967	3	(1)
Blues	4	(1)
Bamboo Bridge	5	(1)
Night Ambush	6	(1)
Doc	7	(1)
Rain	7	(1)
Itinerary	8	(1)
Sally Ball
Not Having the Affair	9	(1)
Disclosures	10	(1)
Morning Glory	10	(1)
Went to Bed Without a Blanket	11	(1)
Absence of Temptation	11	(1)
Heart Swims Away and Is Lost	11	(1)
Jennifer Barber
Hot Morning in the Attic	12	(1)
San Miguel	12	(1)
Vendaval	13	(1)
Nights	14	(1)
A Village I Love	15	(1)
In the Bosch Room, Downstairs at the Prado	15	(1)
Letter	16	(1)
Oak	17	(1)
Photograph of My Mother, A Girl in Central Park	18	(1)
Summer as a Large, Reclining Nude	18	(1)
Robert A. Ayres
Alameda Circle	19	(5)
The Corn Cross	24	(2)
First Cutting	26	(1)
The Orchard	26	(1)
Pilgrimage	27	(1)
Infested	28	(1)
Aubade	29	(1)
Psalm	29	(1)
Sarah Gorham
River Mild	30	(1)
Cupped Hands	30	(1)
Honeymoon, Pleasant Hill	31	(1)
Shared Cup	32	(1)
Last Day at the Frost Place	33	(1)
Interim	33	(1)
Erin Belieu
Watching the Giraffes Run	34	(1)
Erections	35	(1)
Tick	36	(1)
Georgic on Memory	37	(1)
Prayer for Men	38	(1)
Another Poem for Mothers	38	(1)
The Small Sound of Quit Animals	39	(2)
The Spring Burials	41	(1)
Tereze Gluck
The Coast of Massachusetts	42	(5)
Brian Kiteley
I Know Many Songs, But I Cannot Sing	47	(6)
Laure-Anne Bosselaar
Amen	53	(2)
The Radiator	55	(1)
The Hour Between Dog and Wolf	56	(2)
Hotel des Touristes	58	(1)
From My Window, I See Mountains	59	(1)
Unable to Find the Right Way	60	(1)
The Cellar	60	(1)
The Feather at Breendonck	61	(1)
The Vase	62	(1)
Kenneth Zamora Damacion
The False Angel	63	(2)
Hieroglyphics	65	(1)
My Mother's Life	66	(1)
Gone	67	(1)
Last Note Between Heaven and Hell	68	(2)
Forgive Me	70	(1)
Sharon Dolin
Jacob After Fording the Jabbok	71	(1)
The Domestic Fascist	71	(1)
If My Mother	72	(2)
The Bear	74	(1)
The Visit	74	(1)
Spanish Snapshots	75	(1)
Pomegranates	76	(1)
Confession	77	(1)
Patrick Donnelly
Finding Paul Monette, Losing Him	78	(2)
Baba	80	(1)
I am a virus	81	(1)
How the Age of Iron Turned to Gold	82	(1)
After a long time away	83	(1)
Volodymyr Dibrova
Burdyk	84	(8)
John Donoghue
Waiting for the Muse in Lakeview Cemetery	92	(1)
Sheila's Auras	93	(1)
Articles of Exploration	94	(1)
Physical	94	(1)
Images	95	(2)
One-Bedroom, Four Floors Up	97	(1)
Marianne Boruch
Then	98	(1)
The Luxor Baths	99	(2)
On Sorrow	101	(1)
Head of an Unknown Saint	102	(1)
Happiness	103	(1)
The Hawk	103	(1)
Tulip Tree	104	(2)
Pablo Medina
Mortality	106	(3)
Ellen Dudley
The Bats	109	(1)
Leaving Lincoln	109	(1)
The One Thing	110	(1)
Kilauea	110	(1)
Night Fishing	111	(1)
Ojo Caliente Suite The Oranges	111	(3)
Recall	112	(1)
Corporeal	112	(1)
Out of Time	113	(1)
Hot Eyes	113	(1)
Gary Duehr
All the Little Sorries	114	(1)
Dog World	115	(1)
Missing	116	(1)
Vestige	116	(1)
Petition: Morning Talk Show	117	(1)
Ricochet	117	(1)
Under Total Quality Management	118	(1)
Linda Dyer
Hereditary Guess	119	(1)
Houdini's Daughter	120	(1)
My Muse: Gravity	120	(1)
Screen Doors of the 1960s	121	(1)
Conservation of Momentum	122	(2)
Michael Klein
The Play My Father's In	124	(9)
Terri Ford
BP Station Employee Restroom, 2 A.M.	133	(1)
Mister Hymen	134	(1)
Better Off	135	(1)
Heartsick	135	(1)
For the love of an anaconda woman	136	(1)
Alison Moore
The Angel of Vermont Street	136	(9)
Martin Espada
Colibri	145	(1)
Jorge the Church Janitor Finally Quits	146	(1)
La Tumba de Buenaventura Roig	147	(2)
Latin Night at the Pawnshop	149	(1)
When Songs Become Water	149	(2)
DSS Dream	151	(1)
White Birch	151	(1)
Imagine the Angels of Bread	152	(2)
Sabra Loomis
The Trouble I Have in High Places	154	(1)
Woman and Donkey	155	(1)
The Unicorn	156	(1)
Delia	157	(1)
Echo	158	(1)
The bear He Shot on Their Honeymoon in Montana, That Growled, and Tried to Come into Their Tent	158	(1)
Coming-Out Party	159	(1)
Ziffy-Sternal	160	(1)
Front Seats	160	(1)
Dale Neal
The Mouse's Father	161	(10)
Cheryl Baldi
Skytop	171	(1)
First Goodbye	171	(1)
New Neighbors	172	(1)
Anima	172	(1)
Portrait	173	(1)
Fever	174	(1)
Prayer for the God Box	175	(1)
Melissa Hotchkiss
Maine	176	(1)
The Chore	177	(1)
Temper	177	(1)
Untitled	178	(1)
Elizabeth	178	(1)
The Breakup	178	(1)
Surgery	179	(1)
China Lake	179	(1)
Ha Jin
Ways of Talking	180	(1)
A Peach	181	(1)
Distance	181	(1)
At Midnight	182	(1)
In a Moonlit Night	183	(1)
The Past	184	(1)
Lilburn, Georgia	184	(1)
I Sing of an Old Land	185	(1)
June 1989	186	(2)
Faye George
Amtrak	188	(1)
The Moon Is in the Eastern Sky	188	(1)
Norfolk to Boston	189	(1)
Rain	190	(1)
Welcome to This House	191	(1)
What She Looked Out Upon	191	(2)
Kathleen E. Krause
Streets	193	(1)
To	193	(1)
Train	193	(1)
Scrape Scrape	194	(1)
Portrait	194	(1)
No Dragon	194	(1)
Foot	195	(1)
Accident	195	(1)
Frank and Luna	196	(1)
Dinty W. Moore
White Birds	197	(8)
Frances Richard
Asparagus Bed	205	(1)
Now You Are	205	(1)
Infiltration	206	(1)
Story About Yes	206	(1)
Reverie/Plus	207	(1)
The 1950s	208	(1)
Sign	208	(1)
Cold Seconds	209	(1)
Frankie Paino
Pentecost: Collinwood School Fire, Cleveland, 1908	210	(2)
Sometimes the Dead	212	(2)
The Martyrdom of St. Sebastian	214	(1)
Each Bone of the Body	215	(5)
Carl Phillips
In the Blood, Winnowing	220	(2)
Undressing for Li Po	222	(1)
Aubade for Eve Under the Arbor	223	(1)
As from a Quiver of Arrows	224	(1)
The Full Acreage of Mourning	225	(1)
Blue	226	(1)
Bethany Pray
In the City	227	(1)
Conception	228	(1)
The Nameless	229	(1)
Tree	230	(1)
Quarter	231	(1)
In Dream, in the Eden	232	(1)
Apparition	233	(1)
Jeffrey Skinner
Play Dead	234	(1)
Come	234	(1)
Speak	235	(1)
Fetch	236	(1)
Stay	236	(1)
Jocelyn	237	(4)
Jean Valentine
Your mouth ``appeared to me''	241	(1)
Mare and Newborn Foal	241	(1)
Mother	241	(1)
The Pen	242	(1)
October Premonition	242	(3)
Contributors' Notes	245	(7)
Acknowledgments	252