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'Rilke in the Morning': We imagine dying as drowsiness/and death as dreamless sleep./To wake in the early morning/is not the same as not to sleep--/traffic first, then robins speak/a gray dawn, and small thoughts/like knives, nerve me to boil/water for tea and light a corner/to read an elegy for angels./Who is this pantherine being/who seeks meaning/in the death of roses?/A century of woe blooms/in his garden, a false spring/kills the forsythia.--Also very highly recommended is Salcman's first published volume of poetry, "The Clock Made of Confetti" (Orchises Press, 2007).

(Orchises, 2005) and a translation of Euripides, "Children of

Washington, DC: Orchises, 2003, 79 pp., $14.95 paper.

His collection of poetry, The Idea of the Ordinary, was published last January by Orchises Press.

Stephen Stepanchev's latest book is Seven Horizons (Orchises

Benjamin Ivry is author of Paradise for the Portuguese Queen (Orchises Press); a short life of the poet Arthur Rimbaud (Absolute Press); and lives of the composers Poulenc (Phaidon) and Ravel (Everyman/Knopf).

(153.) For example, facsimile versions of the 1922 edition of Ulysses have been published by Orchises Press of Alexandria, Virginia at $75.00, and by The First Edition Library of Shelton, Connecticut at $37.50.

His latest book is a collection of poetry, Big-Leg Music (Orchises).