6 Editors’ Note: On the Lyric Body Stephen Kuusisto and Ralph James Savarese
9 Water and Stone: Trauma and Transformation Gregory Orr
14 Extreme Rendition Sam Hamill
16 Ancestral Altar #14 Binh Dahn
17 Homage Melanie Almeder
18 The Iridescence of Life Binh Dahn
19 The Iridescence of Life Melanie Almeder
21 Outlook Tito Mukhopadhyay
23 Aristotle’s Help and My Ridiculous Special Education Classes Tito Mukhopadhyay
28 Walking to Abbasanta Anne Finger
37 Remedies for Sorrow Katie Ford
39 My Boxing Body Binnie Klein
46 A Pushcart Prize F. D. Reeve
47 My Grave and the Last Side Show Tent Dawn Prince
64 Migrate Elizabeth Graver
66 From Sickbed Shores Adrienne Rich
68 Dis Susanne Antonetta
77 Why I’ll Never Meet Tony Hoagland Jim Ferris
79 Knotty Jim Ferris
80 Memory, Music, and Cochlear Implant Laura C. Stevenson
85 What Survives Achim Nowak
100 Dear Mr. Vice President Thomas Lynch
102 Tortured Body Amitava Kumar
108 Dysaesthesia Laurie Clements Lambeth
109 Six Graves for Seven Writers Jennifer Finney Boylan
124 Gout Law George Barlow
125 Appendectomy George Barlow
126 Skin Jane Bernstein
133 The Soul Is Granted Flight Rafael Campo
135 Primary Care Rafael Campo
136 Vesper Adest Joy Castro
139 Excessive Force John Lee Clark
140 On My Return from a Business Trip John Lee Clark
141 My Last-Ditch Attempt Rebecca Epstein
155 From Deaf Republic Ilya Kaminsky
156 Of Deafness Ilya Kaminsky
157 From Deaf Republic Ilya Kaminsky
158 Edvard Munch’s Puberty, Mine Ona Gritz
159 Vestige Ona Gritz
160 On Water Susan Neeley
171 Dead Man’s Dive J. Harley McIlrath
178 The Side Effects of Side Effects Floyd Skloot
184 APOCALYPSE, Darling Barrie Jean Borich
202 “Stucco’d All Over with Quadrapeds and Birds” Mark Doty
212 Notes on Contributors
