The gift of tongues : twenty-five years of poetry from Copper Canyon Press / edited and with an introduction by Sam Hamill.

The Return
Probable Cause
On the Head of a Pin
Reading by Mechanic Light
Tim McNulty
Bodhidarma Crossing the Graywolf River on a Ry-Krisp
W.S. Merwin
For a Coming Extinction
Avoiding News by the River
The Gardens of Z.

A Personal Introduction / Sam Hamill
Vicente Aleixandre
The Old Man Is Like Moses
Heather Allen
In the Forest
Edgar Anawrok
Each Time
John Balaban
Riding Westward
After Our War
Anna Akhmatova Spends the Night on Miami Beach
Erin Belieu
Rondeau at the Train Stop
Marvin Bell
A Primer about the Flag
The Book of the Dead Man #1
The Book of the Dead Man #43
Nelson Bentley
Iron Man of the Hoh
Stephen Berg
from Crow with No Mouth: Ikkyu
On This Side of the River
Alone
Clouded Sky: Miklos Radnoti
Orpingalik's My Breath
David Bottoms
Under the Vulture-Tree
Sierra Bear
Chinese Dragons
Kay Boyle
Ode to a Maintenance Man and His Family
Robert Bringhurst
The Song of Ptahhotep
Parsvanatha
Olga Broumas
Oregon Landscape with Lost Lover
If I Yes
Touched
Olga Broumas and T. Begley
Sappho's Gymnasium
Gladys Cardiff
Grey Woman
Combing
Hayden Carruth
from The Sleeping Beauty
The Cows at Night
Sonnet
from "Vermont"
The Camps
Testament
Cyrus Cassells
Soul Make a Path Through Shouting
From the Theater of Wine
Paul Celan
A Death Fugue
Thomas Centolella
Small Acts
Woman of Three Minds
Joy
Lucille Clifton
dear jesse helms
night vision
Cold Mountain
Three Songs
Gerald Costanzo
Everything You Own
Sandor Csoori
Somebody Consoles Me with a Poem
Michael Cuddihy
This Body
Solitude
Richard Dauenhauer
Driving in a Snowstorm
Madeline DeFrees
Beetle Light
H.D.
from "Priest"
Terry Ehret
Lost Body
Odysseas Elytis
Sun the First
from "Anoint the Ariston" X
from "With Life & with Death"
from "Anoint the Ariston" XXVII
As Endymion
Carolyn Forche
Ourselves or Nothing
James Galvin
Post-Modernism
Two Horses and a Dog
Station (1)
Station (2)
Station (4)
Ken Gerner
Prey
House of Breath
Patricia Goedicke
Imprint of Microscopic Life Found in Arctic Stones
Susan Griffin
Ordinary, as Love
To the Far Corners of Fractured Worlds
John Haines
If the Owl Calls Again
Nocturnal
Evening Change
Mark Halperin
Two Lines from Paul Celan
Sam Hamill
Reading Seferis
The Gift of Tongues
Han Yu
Poem on Losing One's Teeth
Paul Hansen
Yang Wan-li's "Moored for the Night at the Lan-chi Riverside Courier Station"
Gerald Hausman
Appaloosa Hail Storm
Robert Hedin
Transcanadian
At Betharram
At the Olive Grove of the Resistance
Jim Heynen
The Clean People
George Hitchcock
Solitaire
Gary H. Holthaus
Unexpected Manna
Richard Hugo
Neighbor
T.E. Jay
Fir
Richard Jones
Times Like This
The Poet's Heart
The Novel
The Key
Jean Joubert
Brilliant Sky
Jaan Kaplinski
"We started home, my son and I"
Shirley Kaufman
By the Rivers
The Accuser
The Buddha of Sokkuram
Poem in November
Kawamura Yoichi
On the Sand Dune
Ki Joon
Elegy for Myself
Carolyn Kizer
Bitch
For Sappho/After Sappho
Thrall
Shu Ting's "Brother, I Am Here"
Election Day, 1984
On a Line from Valery: The Gulf War
William Kloefkorn
Why the Stone Remains Silent
Kwon P'il
Alone at Night
James Laughlin
O Best of All Nights
My Ambition
David Lee
For Jan, with Love
from Driving and Drinking
Jan's Birthday
Hired Hand
Benediction
Denise Levertov
Poet and Person
Timothy Liu
Thoreau
Barry Lopez
Desert Reservation
Frank R. Maloney
Grandmothers in Green and Orange
Thomas McGrath
Ordonnance
from Letter to an Imaginary Friend, Part One
from "The Christmas Section," Part Three
A Coal Fire in Winter
Three Poems
Nuclear Winter.