Blue Unicorn – Volume 12, Number 1 (Oct. 1988)

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CONTENTS

Frontispiece/The Chess Players,  Girolamo da Cremona, c. 1467
Mary Prentice Lillie & Laura Anna Stortoni/Selections from Courtly Ladies and Courtesans: Italian Women Poets of the Renaissance [translations from the Italian]―
Nina Sciliana/Alas for Me! I Loved a Sparrow Hawk/
Laura Battiferri Ammanati/When the Sun Stoops to Hide His Lofty Forehead/
Petronilla Paolini Massimi/Clorinda Does Not Deign to Drop Her Hand/
Francesca Turrini/Dear, Faithful, Secret Little Room of Mine/
Gaspara Stampa/I Do Not Envy You, O Holy Angels/5-7
Daniel Antonio Bertoli/Engraving of Gaspara Stampa, 1737/7
Geraldine Little/A World Renamed/8-9
Lila Rohrer/I’m Farming with Milo/9
Joan Swift/On the Gota Canal, 1986/10-11
Joyce Odam/Making the Bed/11
Marilyn Taylor/A Love Song, Continued/12
Margaret Almon/Namesake/13
Jim Hubert/In My Dream/13
Jane McClellan/Falling in Love Middle-aged/14-15
Alfred Dom/Desert Noon/16
Frank Bono/Elie Wiesel, Serial Number A-7713/
                Burial/16-17
Gray Burr/Thinning the Trees/18
William R. Willan/Experience [Abstract]/19
Carrie Pollack/Trying to Think the Impossible/20
Gregory Stewart/Schrödinger’s Cat/20
Jean L. Tupper/To the Invisible Prowler/21
Rhina P. Espaillat/Cousins
                Dancers Work by Forgetting/22-23
Vince Clemente/Annie’s Blue Asters/23
Tom Hansen/The Wild Bunch/24-25
David Tucker/Lost  in Hickerson’ s Pasture/
                Photograph  of  a Frontier Funeral: Montana, 1880/26-27
Fred Ostrander/The Merry-Go-Round/27
David Chorlton/Kien-Wu on the Mountain/28
Joseph Payne Brennan/Destined Things/28
Robert M. Chute/Geography-IV/29
B. Z. Niditch/Post Bitburg/
                Yannis Ritsos/30
Sheldon Young/Untitled Haiku/31
Lawrence P. Spingarn/Passing Through Customs: 1939/31
Ken Poyner/How the Children Are Raised/32
Mark Sanders/The Heritage Ballroom/
               The Infant’s Nightmares/33
Gilbert Schedler/Sanctuary/34-35
Al Danielson/Bible Stories/35
Tom Laichas/The Open Window/36
Bonnie Buhrow/Cemetery/36
Peter Wild/Fred Harvey Girls/37
Betty Siegel/Gull Woman’s Afternoon/38
James G. Tipton/Poem for Lorraine/39
John Ribovich/Aubade/39
Ruth G. Iodice/Untitled Haiku/40
James Cole/Arrival in Cork Harbor/40
Maureen Micue Crisick/The Rose Tree/41
Debra L. Hopkins/Conversation Hollows/41
Jane Somerville/The Difference/
                What Do You Expect of This Poem?/42-43
R. T. Smith/Squab Entree/43
Harold McCurdy/To an Epigrapher/44
Harold Witt/Seventeen/44
Keith McClure/Nocturne/45
Notes on Contributors/46-48
Cover design by Robert L. Bradley, featuring two allegorical compositions by Piero della Francesca for his patrons, the Duke of Urbino, Federigo da Montfeltro and his wife, niece of Francesco Sforza, c. 1465.