POETRY Magazine cover of June/July 2004 issue

June 2004

Sebastião Salgado, "Kuwait. 1991. One of the oil firefighters takes a break."
 
  • Naeem Murr
  • Christopher Logue
  • Roddy Lumsden
  • Kathleen Jamie
  • George Szirtes
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Poem
Many believe in the stars.   


   Take Quinamid   
The son of a Dardanian astrologer   
Who disregarded what his father said   
And came to Troy in a taxi.   

Gone.   



    Odysseus to Greece:   

    “Hector has never fought this far from Troy.   
We...
Poem
It was winter, near freezing,
I’d walked through a forest of firs
when I saw issue out of the waterfall
a solitary bird.

It lit on a damp rock,
and, as water swept stupidly on,
wrung from its own throat
supple, undammable song.

It isn’t mine to give.
I...
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Eight Versions from Rilke's "Sonnets to Orpheus"
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