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October 2000

Valérie Catherine Richez, Untitled, 2000.

The oldest monthly devoted to verse in the English-speaking world.

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  • Julien Gracq
  • Michel De Smet
  • Louis-René Des Forét
  • Pierre Martory
  • Yves Bonnefoy
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POETRY Magazine cover of October-November 2000 issue
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    • poem

      Appeared in Poetry Magazine Break of Day (tr. by Geoffrey Brock)

      By Michel De Smet

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    • poem

      Appeared in Poetry Magazine Town Hall, Fifteenth Arrondissement (tr. by John Ashbery)

      By Pierre Martory
      You should have heard the soldiers’ feet
      wounding the swirls that the accordion waltz
      left on the pavement like a mower’s swath
      once the parade had passed
      you should have kissed the soldiers’ feet
      pulled out of their boots and licked the ankles
      and climbed as...

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    • poem

      Appeared in Poetry Magazine [Les plantes et les planètes]

      By Robert Marteau
      Les plantes et les planètes
      Au même ciel obáissent ;
      Du même soleil les bêtes
      Et les hommes se nourrissent ;

      Et le mátal dans la mine
      Couve l'astre minuscule,
      Soufre dont la fleur si fine
      Vit en chaque corpuscule.

      Naines ou gáantes sont
      Poudre et bran jetás loin
      Qui...

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