FIELD CONTEMPORARY POETRY AND POETICS NUMBER 89 FALL 2013 OBERLIN COLLEGE PRESS EDITORS David Young David Walker ASSOCIATE Pamela Alexander EDITORS Kazim Ali DeSales Harrison EDITOR-AT- Martha Collins LARGE MANAGING Marco Wilkinson EDITOR EDITORIAL Mark Allain ASSISTANTS Walter Gordon DESIGN Steve Parkas www.oberlin.edu/ocpress Published twice yearly by Oberlin College. Poems should be submitted through the online submissions manager on our website. Subscription orders should be sent to FIELD, Oberlin College Press, 50 N. Professor St., Oberlin, OH 44074. Checks payable to Oberlin College Press: $16.00 a year / $28.00 for two years / $40.00 for 3 years. Single issues $8.00 postpaid. Please add $4.00 per year for Canadian addresses and $9.00 for all other countries. Back issues $12.00 each. Contact us about availability. FIELD is also available for download to the iPad, iPhone, or iPod Touch. See the LitRagger app on iTunes for information. FIELD is indexed in Humanities International Complete. Copyright © 2013 by Oberlin College. ISSN: 0015-0657 CONTENTS 7 Gerald Stern: A Symposium Philip Levine 11 The City of Gerald John Gallaher 14 On "Lucky Life" Sarah Green 20 Board Across the Channel Bob Hicok 23 On "Waving Good-Bye" Wayne Miller 27 Gerald Stern: Sing! Joan Larkin 31 An American Sonnet Ross Gay 35 Animal Lessons Michael Waters 39 Gerald Stern's "Gorgeous Retrieval * * * David Hernandez 44 Dear Death 46 Mayfly Sandra McPherson 48 Loose Flowers Janice N. Harrington 50 1939 Sonja James 51 Cradle & Buggy 52 Recession Philip Metres 53 from Hung Lyres 54 from Hung Lyres Emmanuel Moses 55 "l didn't intend to write..." translated by Marilyn Hacker 56 "Childhood is there..." Hugh Martin 57 Frisking Two Men in Sadiyah 59 The Leg Leah Falk 61 Chatterbot #2 Maggie MK Hess 63 Role Play Steven Cramer 64 An Invitation 65 En Route Jennifer Atkinson 66 On Earth As It Is 68 Interior 1963 Mary Cisper 70 Threshold Dennis Schmitz 71 Boundaries We Don't See 72 Animism Amit Majmudar 73 Ode to a Drone 74 Welcome Home Troops! Ben Purkert 75 Little Anatomy 76 Girlfriend Sends Me a Whale D. Nurkse 77 Release from Stella Maris Christina Pugh 78 Last David Baker 79 Our Ivy 81 Corner Window Sarah Estes 83 Charity Cynthia Cruz 85 Forgotten Glosses 86 The Abandoned Letter Marianne Boruch 87 Rom, Du Bist eine Welt 88 Portrait Rebecca Hoogs 89 Dollhouse 90 Red Mum Elizabeth Breese 91 Mother Ann, Mother Catherine Bull 92 Spider Plant Boulevard Lee Upton 93 Pandora 94 Salome's Dance Shelley Puhak 95 Guinevere and Lancelot's Last Meeting, Along the Path to Arthur's Grave 96 Guinevere Gets Religion • Bob Hicok 97 Why We Must Support PBS 99 Inside 101 Contributors GERALD STERN A FIELD SYMPOSIUM