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September 2008
Poems by Sasha Dugdale, Leila Wilson, Atsuro Riley, Dionisio D. Martínez, Kay Ryan, Alan Shapiro, Elizabeth Arnold, Lesley Wheeler, Heidy Steidlmayer, David Harsent, Eleanor Wilner, and Jim Harrison; a portfolio of drawings and doodles by Philip Larkin; Clive James on what makes a poem memorable—or not; D.H. Tracy on David Yezzi, Karen Volkman, Cate Marvin, and Richard Kenney; Letters to the Editor



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Barking
BY JIM HARRISON
The moon comes up.
The moon goes down.
This is to inform you
that I didn't die young.

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Little Low Heavens
by Clive James
First appeared in Poetry.
A talented verse mechanic cracks open the hood to illuminate the structure and ignition points that make a poem rev up and roar forever.
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