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The Vulnerability of Order

Martine Bellen

With her swirling, luxuriant images, Bellen explores the philosophical fragments from ancient Greece, religious rituals, and writes of historical women who have transgressed the perceived boundaries of femininity. Here is slave-turned-activist Sojourner Truth holding court with Abraham Lincoln; here is Pocahontas, Calamity Jane, the outlaw Belle Starr, and Lola Montez, who after becoming the Queen of Bavaria lit out for the gold rush of the American Frontier. Each woman has her poem and each poem arcs to the others, creating an electric portrait of life's possibilities.

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Tales of Murasaki: And Other Poems

Martine Bellen

Winner of the 1997 National Poetry Series, selected by Rosmarie Waldrop, Martine Bellen's Tales of Muraski and Poems uses the Tales of Lady Muraski as a starting point for a lyrical and narrative series of poems explore language as they unearth the core of narrative. "In the morning there is meaning in the evening there is feeling."

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Conjunctions 29: Tributes American Writers on American Writers

Martine Bellen; Bradford Morrow; Lee Smith

In the magnanimous tradition of Henry James's Hawthorn, Charles Olson's Call Me Ishmael and Susan Howe's My Emily Dickinson, our fall issue will present innovative homages by a diverse group of important contemporary American writers in honor of our great forebears and predecessors. In these iconoclastic (break the icons) and post-canonical (quash the canon) times, what better way to review the directions in which literature may now be headed, than to rethink where it has been?

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Places People Dare Not Enter

Martine Bellen

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