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Contents: Foreword / Russell Banks ix; Preface xiii; William Matthews xv; Things My Father Passed Down to Me and My Brother / Sebastian Matthews xvii; Birthday Poem / Cynthia Atkins 3; Bill Matthews Coming Along / Coleman Barks 4; Notes for the Elegy / Judith Baumel 5; After / Jeanne Marie Beaumont 6; Bill Matthews / Marvin Bell 7; Remembering Bill Matthews / Earl S. Braggs 8; Blues, for Bill / Andrea Carter Brown 10; Unfair / Harriet Brown 12; No Profit / Robert Burr 13; Pissing Off Robert Frost’s Porch / Mark Cox 14; Before You / Stephen Cramer 15 ; Matthews in Smoke / Sascha Feinstein 16; Inspiration / Allen C. Fischer 18; Untitled: For Bill Matthews / Debra Fried 19; The Last Time / Rachel Hadas 21; The Eternal Light of Talk / Daniel Halpern 22; Sleek for the Long Flight / James Harms 24; Magic Lantern / Pamela Harrison 25; The Poet Speaks of Italy / Walter R. Holland 26; Bill at Bellagio: A Rockefeller Grant / Ann Hurwitz 28; Reincarnation of a Lovebird / Richard Jackson 30; Last Class / Jacqueline Johnson 32; The Secret of William Matthews / Rodney Jones 34; Nature Poetry / Meg Kearney 35; My Blue Heaven / David Keller 36; Elegy for William Matthews / Gerry LaFemina 38; Last Call / Peter Makuck 39; Writers’ Conference / Gary Margolis 40; Over a Long Distance / Cleopatra Mathis 42; Buying Wine / Sebastian Matthews 43; Request / Karen McCosker 45; Bill / Christopher Merrill 46; Some Words for Bill Matthews / Judson Mitcham 47; In Memory of William Matthews / Robert Morgan 48; Matthews Ah Um / Sharon Olds 50; Fixity / Rick Pernod 52; When He Fell Backwards Into His Coffin / Stanley Plumly 54; Following William Matthews’ Recipe for Scallion Risotto / Donna Reis 55; Matthews in Maine, 1980 / Kenneth Rosen 57; We Never Shot Baskets Together / Vern Rutsala 58; Open to Everything / John Schenck 60; Coming Down in Ohio / Dave Smith 62; For William Matthews / Henry Taylor 64; Ode to Bill’s Vocabulary, 1997 / Melinda Thomsen 66; Glimpse of a Traveller / Richard Tillinghast 68; Bill Matthews, 1983 / Sidney Wade 69; Elegy for Matthews / Bruce Weigl 71; On the “Island of the Old Women,” / Estha Weiner 73; Scrabble with Matthews / David Wojahn 75; In Cortona, Thinking of Bill / Susan Wood 77; Melancholy Baby / Baron Wormser 80; An Interview with William Matthews /David Wojahn and James Harms 85; Editors 119; Contributors 121; Acknowledgments 129; Index of Titles 133

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