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Odilon Redon, Droom, 1878–1882. Courtesy Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Lamium

Louise Glück
April 1, 1992

Rachel

Adrienne Rich
April 1, 1992
An open mouth; Illustration by Laura Padilla Castellanos

September Twilight

Louise Glück
April 1, 1992
Theo Colenbrander, Flower Market, 1917. Courtesy Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Vespers

Louise Glück
April 1, 1992
Merrill with Mask of Keats and Head of Hermes. Courtesy Washington University in St. Louis Special Collections.

To the Reader

James Merrill
November 1, 1990
A stack of old issues of The Yale Review. Courtesy Pentagram

Aubade

Tom Sleigh
July 1, 1989

Fiction

Mark Strand
July 1, 1989
View of the Tiber River at Sunset. Stefano Avolio / Creative Commons.

Walks in Rome

James Merrill
March 1, 1988

Shéhérazade

Wayne Koestenbaum
December 1, 1987
Vase with anemones, ca. 1907. Rijksmuseum.

In Memoriam

Adrienne Rich
April 1, 1987