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- 1From:Atlanta Review (Vol. 23, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAbout Suffering "the sun shone / as it had to ..." --Auden, "Musee des Beaux Arts" Two weeks before you went into the river, my mother found my father kneeling in the pantry, holding on to a box of cereal, stuck,...
- 2From:Atlanta Review (Vol. 21, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedSuffering a Leg Cramp While Listening to Gerald Stern Read a Poem Crying out in pain, or moaning, is not considered proper at such times. I know this. I know this even as the cramp in my left hamstring that came on...
- 3From:The Southern Review (Vol. 49, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed1. A birdcall and a breath in the roofless chapel: that pleasure was brief. Unlike one full rotation of this galaxy. Or sycamores peeling along the river, guilt fanning out through my body, is enlightenment accidental?...
- 4From:War, Literature & The Arts (Vol. 25, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedGABRIELLA R. TALLMADGE lives and works in North Carolina with her husband. She holds an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the University of North Carolina Wilmington. Her poetry is published or forthcoming in Crazyhorse,...
- 5From:World Literature Today (Vol. 86, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed--Edith Södergran Translations from the Arabic By Mbarek Sryfi & Eric Sellin Editorial note: Visit WLT 's website to read four additional poems by Bassry and to hear bilingual recordings of all eight poems....
- 6From:Prairie Schooner (Vol. 86, Issue 3)The last time you saw her, the police were escorting her to their car. A nice word escort , and she shouted several others in a screaming growl that let you know she didn't care how quaint it was. She tossed her head so...
- 7From:Prairie Schooner (Vol. 86, Issue 2)Today a smile that isn't gas, a grasped finger. When you focus your eyes, you seem to catch a soul. They fix on two black plates beside white napkins (so much depends/upon) as our voice-streams surge and eddy, a rush...
- 8From:The Midwest Quarterly (Vol. 50, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedDeborah Landau, Spring 1999 All night jackhammers stammer beneath the window. The man lying beside me exhales, says it's late, turns away. This mattress is a cave, a bit deeper every night, where we've hurried again,...
- 9From:West Branch (Issue 69) Peer-ReviewedAFTER THE FIRST SHOT I run the dark winter coatless and a shirt of briar. Season of black sycamore thickets, then the startle of open fields. Bare feet cracking earth. Each mile birthing three more. There are sorrel...
- 10From:Appalachian Heritage (Vol. 36, Issue 4)LIFE? (FOR CONNIE) My word and my life are one. My life is in my word, And I refuse to be chained ... I will clamber across The highest mountains And I will fall down and curse And fight and get up again ... I will not...
- 11From:Interpretation (Vol. 53, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedContemporary challenges--feminist and others--force us to rethink traditional doctrines of the atonement. Although Rene Girard and Jon Levenson open interesting avenues of interpretation, precisely how Christ takes the...
- 12From:Contemporary Literature (Vol. 36, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedNovelist Toni Morrison questions the traditional portrayal of personal suffering as a means of self-redemption and and self-realization. Morrison's 'Beloved' deals with the experiences of former slaves who believe that...
- 13From:Interpretation (Vol. 50, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe Bible guides Christian ethics by showing how Jesus and early Christianity transformed the moral conventions of first-century Greco-Roman society by making them more inclusive and compassionate. This is the one side...
- 14From:The Carolina Quarterly (Vol. 65, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed--after "The Crucifixion," by Frantisek Bilek As Christ closes his eyes, the breath raises him to the ceiling like the night we ate Peyote and jumped the fence to the Jacuzzi. Providing for my passage-- she taught me...
- 15From:The Southern Review (Vol. 52, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedAndrea had to kill her dog. My wife and I, ours. Our cat too. I'll kill my friend when the cancer gets so far into his brain he doesn't know who he is. What'd be the point to Berlioz and Goya if I wouldn't? That reminds...
- 16From:New Coin Poetry (Vol. 54, Issue 2)I have been bleeding for three weeks now. I have been drinking for much longer. I am still alive. They tell me to bleed onto a white cloth. To use a white towel when washing my body. To sleep on top of a white sheet. I...
- 17From:The Southern Review (Vol. 56, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedToday I catch sight of the scar my student pulls the cuff of her sleeve to conceal, and she answers a look I did not know I gave her. I was, she tells me, working through some issues, and she hands me a poem. I'm so...
- 18From:The Literary Review (Vol. 52, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedTranslated from Polish by Mira Rosenthal Sitting and watching planes wage war against the towers, martyrs wage their holy war against commuter trains and gyms, against children. Then lying down to watch the flood in...
- 19From:Southeast Review of Asian Studies (Vol. 33) Peer-ReviewedThough Americans have been exposed to Asian philosophical traditions since the nineteenth century--with much recent help from the Beat writers of the 1950s and 1960s--too little attention has been paid to the texts and...
- 20From:The Hedgehog Review (Vol. 8, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedAt some point in our lives, we all face illness--whether our own, a family member's, or a friend's. In these situations we are confronted with the frailty of the human body, the limitations of our abilities to heal or...