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Philip C. Kolin is the distinguished professor of English emeritus and editor emeritus of the Southern Quarterly at the University of Southern Mississippi. He has published more than 40 books, including nine collections of poems, the most recent being Reaching Forever: Poems.
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Paul Mariani’s poems ask, “Does God know us only by the names our parents gave us?,” another reminder of how the human and eternal meet.
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He lives in infinity, and his voice is/ an octave higher than silence.
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The city suffocates with the smellOf hemp, soaked in blood, everywhere.Hour after hour after hour she tossesFrom one nightmare to another.Her bed sheets, once silveredWith the scent of nard, taste of gall.She dreams she sees her husband, the prefectOf equivocation, leaning over the porticoTrying to