The Laurel Review - Summer/Fall 2007

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The Laurel Review
41.2
Summer 2007


Poetry:

David Baker, Clean Blade

Linda Bierds, Dürer Near Fifty

Paula Closson Buck, The Smallest Man Carries the Candle
The Heart Is
Elegy for My Novel

Catherine Daly, Tectonic

Shira Dentz, 3 Sexograms

Angie Estes, Takeoff

Kathy Fagan, Leap of Faith

Albert Goldbarth, A Two-Day Trip in 800 Years
Birds
The Mailbox

Linda Gregerson, De Magnete

Thomas Heise, Examination

John Hoppenthaler, College Town
Still Life with Signed Iris DeMent Poster, Infamous Angel on the Stereo

Catherine Imbriglio, Light Be There Let
Intaglio

Cat Jones, Lex Olifantus

Aby Kaupang, Strom days are roses

Sally Keith, Without Hurry

Jesse Lee Kercheval, 4:15

Joanna Klink, Vireo

David Lazar, On Canal

Matt Mason, Decades Later, He Recalls the Terrors of Birth

Christopher Matthews, Family Reunion

Richard Meier, Of Which This Answer Is The Continuance
Stéphane Mallarmé
The Loft (Negative Capability)

Jeanne Stauffer-Merle, Within an Inch of Your

Carl Phillips, Wingbeat, Hoofbeat

Emily Rosko, [Accoutred as I was plunged in]
[In thy dumb action will I be as perfect]

Steven D. Schroeder, Fifteen Ways to Finish Fish

Jason Tandon, Morning on Snake Mountain

Jonathan Weinert, Fair Affair of the Little “I”

Greg Wrenn, Onto
Poem Found in Rothko’s Papers

Jean Valentine, Even all night long
[The white-washed walls, the chair]


Fiction:

Charles Heiner, Miss Kristinsen

Catherine Kriege, Miracle

Daniel T. Smith, The Mission


Essays:

Maxine Chernoff, Homeland Security

Wayne Miller, A Defense of John Ashbery

J.D. Smith, Salt Water

Mark Spitzer, Garuminations

Brian Jay Stanley, The Lonely Race

Holly Welker, Priming the Pump


Reviews:

Peter Makuck, Master And Mistress of Shine: on the poetry of Anele Rubin and Michael McFee

Scott Minar, Undying Nature: A Review of Mark Strand’s Man and Camel