POETRY Magazine cover of January 1999 issue

January 1999

John Cieslinski, Untitled, 1986.
 
  • Sarah Arvio
  • Jack Barrack
  • Robert Bly
  • Don Bogen
  • Hayden Carruth
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From this Issue

Poem
I knew that James Whistler was part of the Paris scene,
but I was still surprised when I found the painting
of his mother at the Musée d'Orsay
among all the colored dots and mobile brushstrokes
of the French Impressionists.

And I was surprised to...
Poem

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Men Say Brown

On the radio this morning: The average woman knows
275 colors—and men know eight. Women say coffee,
mocha, copper, cinnamon, taupe. Men say brown.

Women know an Amazon of colors I might have said
were green, an Antarctica of whites, oceans of colors
I'd stupidly...
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