21.1 - Winter/Spring 2009

In this issue

• The Big Nothing, or the Gap between David Letterman's Teeth

• Saint

• Scholar of the Dark Armchair

• Indeterminacy of Translation

• Socrates' Blackhole of Reason

• Dream

• Cure of Dumbass

• FTW

• Death and Shit Like That

• YAR! Illustrates Rimbaud

• Craft of Resistance

• Arbol de la vida ( John Deere Modek #790)

• Arbol de la vida (Carrucha/ Wheelbarrow)

• Hummer

• Vocho (Yellow)

• Bicicleta Guinda (Maroon)

• Vacuum Cleaner

• Julieta

• Both Sides of the Border

• A Comprehensive Review Demonstrating the Final Dying Notes of American Self-Analysis I Guess

• Manil Suri's The Age of Shiva

• No Contest: The VQR Poetry Series

• Rachel Stolzman's The Sign for Drowning

• Elsewheres and Inbetweens

• A Conversation

• Political Poetry and the Semantics of Suffering:

• Crying Like a Fire in the Sun

• A Short Journey into the Badlands

• Iowa City

• We Are Taking the Trees

• Intimacy

• Avieoli

• Freud's Container

• Reflexive

• Forecast

• Ducks in Prison

• Spanish Fruit Bomb

• Jaroslav

• Inheritance

• Kankakee Drought, 1933

• Poem (Finished 9/22/07 [...])

• Red

• Broken Sonnet

• twelve poems from Negativity's Kiss

• Spondee | Respondee

• My Heart to Fear

• George Open

• February Journal

• January, Reading Lu Yu

• Augur

• Advice

• Nine-Hundred-Pound Wheels

• World Weight

• The Interior

• Some Feel Rain

• To Stay within the Equivalent of the Finishing Petal

• In the Syllable II

• In the Syllable I

• A lecture upon the shadow

• The Big Nothing, or the Gap between David

• The day the puma

• The Clock

• A Poem also about Temperament

• Tired and True

• The Electric Astrolabe

• Disheveled Holiness

• The Universe is Incapable of Disappearance

• Anecdote of the Little Houses

• Sarah's Dream

• Tattoo

• From an Interview with Oe

• Text Messages

• The Second Olive Tree

• Two Travelers to a River

• This Quiet Complex

• Transmutation Notebook B

• North Fork

• A Pineapple for Matt

• Window Water Baby Moving

• After Philip Johnson's Glass House

• Florida, 1963

• Fixed

• Kisha Club

• Festoons & Astragals

• What You Can Know about Him by Lying beside Him as You Sleep

• Crossroads

• On Logic of the Hammer

• The Boy and the Island

• Contempt

• Germans

• an excerpt from Sick Soldier at Your Door

• Young Lake

• Girl in a Dirt Yard

• Boyland