Blue Unicorn – Volume 39, Number 1 (Oct. 2015)

Description

CONTENTS

Frontispiece/Rainer Maria Rilke, with part of his response to The Lady and the Unicorn tapestries
Paul Malamud/Lady with Unicorn Tapestries, Museum of Cluny, Paris/5
John Hart/Sonnets to Orpheus 1, 24 [translation from the German of Rainer Maria Rilke]/6
Daniel J. Langton/I Would Love to/6
Michael Cadnum/Hibernation/7
Don Thackrey/Creation/8
Gary Davis/Compare/8
Joseph S. Salemi/The Final Checkmate/9
Fred Ostrander/The Hermits/10-11
Joan Colby/Sleepless/11
Leo Dangel/The English Professor in the Nursing Home/12
George Held/The Professor/Poet Reads/12
George Held/Epigram III:27/
               Epigram III:40/
                Epigram III:61 [translations from the Latin of Martial]/13
Linda Taylor/Postcard from Galway, Ireland/14-15
Franchot Ballinger/Passion Painting with No Goldfinches/15
Ken Poyner/The Problem/16
Judith Saunders/Two-Headed Snake/17
Oliver Rice/Postcard/18-19
John P. Kristofco/Fell Lake/19
Marvin Ehrlich/”It Came . . .”
Laurence W. Thomas/It Came—/21
Ruth Iodice/From a Faded Snapshot, ca. 1937/36
Robert Cooperman/Top Bunk, Fort Bragg, 1945/22
Lucille Lang Day/After the Battles/23
Dan Campion/Green/24
John Brugaletta/Soliloquy/24
Thomas Feeny/ Narcissus [translation from the Spanish of Federico García Lorca]/25
John Marvin/OMG! What Just Happened?/26-27
James Hickson/Awakening/28
Philip Parisi/Cellular Level/28-29
James B. Nicola/Relativity/29
Ruth Daniell/Briar Rose/30
Simon Perchik/Untitled/30-31
Dwayne Thorpe/Indian Fighter/31
Duane K. Caylor/Rabbit and Coyote/32
Jean Wiggins/After Hours/33
Sally Cook/The Table Is Set/34
Baloian/In No Other Life/34-35
Gerald Sullivan/Mr. Patel’s Late-Night Ritual/35
William Fabrycki/The Raccoon/36
Therese Arcenaux/Otherwise/36-37
Michael Fraley/Tiger/37
About Our Cover/38
Contributors/38-40

Our Cover Design features one of the six tapestry panels known as The Lady and the Unicorn, created about 1500 in the milles-fleurs style. See About Our Cover, page 38.