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		Poems by John Balaban
		Eddie

		Passing Through Albuquerque


		Essays by John Balaban
		The Need to Return: On Avi Sharon


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		Ekphrasis: Poetry Confronting Art


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		Purgatorio, Canto X by Dante Alighieri

		The Iliad, Book XVIII, [The Shield of Achilles] by Homer

		All those Attempts in the Changing Room! by Anne Stevenson

		Archaic Torso of Apollo by Rainer Maria Rilke

		Die Muhle Brennt--Richard by Richard Matthews

		In a Blue Wood by Richard Levine

		Joseph Cornell, with Box by Michael Dumanis

		Landscape With The Fall of Icarus by William Carlos Williams

		M. Degas Teaches Art & Science at Durfee Intermediate School, Detroit 1942 by Philip Levine

		Museum Guard by David Hernandez

		Ode on a Grecian Urn by John Keats

		On Seeing Larry Rivers' Washington Crossing the Delaware at the Museum of Modern Art by Frank O'Hara

		On Seeing the Elgin Marbles by John Keats

		On the Medusa of Leonardo Da Vinci in the Florentine Gallery by Percy Bysshe Shelley

		Photograph of People Dancing in France by Leslie Adrienne Miller

		Seeing All the Vermeers by Alfred Corn

		Stealing The Scream by Monica Youn

		The Abolition of Reality [Georges Seurat] by Adriano Spatola

		The Family Photograph by Vona Groarke

		The Mad Potter by John Hollander

		The Man with the Hoe by Edwin Markham

		The Picture of Little T. C. in a Prospect of Flowers by Andrew Marvell

		The Shield of Achilles by W. H. Auden

		To Haydon with a Sonnet Written on Seeing the Elgin Marbles by John Keats

		War Photograph by Kate Daniels

		Why knowing is (& Matisse's Woman with a Hat) by Martha Ronk

The Painting
by John Balaban

The stream runs clear to its stones; the fish swim in sharp outline. Girl, turn your face for me to draw. Tomorrow, if we should drift apart, I shall find you by this picture.

From Ca Dao Vietnam: Vietnamese Folk Poetry translated by John Balaban. Translation copyright © 2003 by John Balaban. Reprinted by permission of Copper Canyon Press. All right reserved.