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Brother Francisco Anthony Eats an Apple

By Brendan Galvin
From the Winter 1998 Issue
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Brendan Galvin is the author of sixteen poetry collections, most recently Habitat: New and Selected Poems, 1965–2005 (2005), a finalist for the National Book Award; Ocean Effects (2007); and Whirl Is King (2008)—all from Louisiana State University Press. His translation of Sophocles’ Women of Trachis appeared in the Penn Greek Drama Series (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998).

The Blind World, Atomic Battlefields

By Paul Zimmer
From the Winter 1998 Issue
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Paul Zimmer lives on a farm in southwestern Wisconsin. In the fifteen years since his retirement from a long career in university publishing, he has published two books each of poetry and essay-memoir. His first novel, The Mysteries of Soldiers Grove, is forthcoming from Permanent Press in early 2015, when he will be eighty years old—which surely makes him, he believes, one of the oldest first novelists ever.

Ubi Sunt

By Elizabeth Dodd
From the Winter 1998 Issue
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Elizabeth Dodd’s essay in this issue will appear in her new book, Horizon’s Lens: My Time on the Turning World, forthcoming from the University of Nebraska Press in fall 2012. She teaches at Kansas State University.

on Avatars of the Word: From Papyrus to Cyberspace by James J. O’Donnell

By Thomas Larson
From the Spring 1999 Issue
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on Twentieth-Century Southern Literature by J. A. Bryant Jr.

By Randall Curb
From the Spring 1999 Issue
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on Blank Fictions: Consumerism, Culture and the Contemporary American Novel by James Annesley

By Marshall Boswell
From the Spring 1999 Issue
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on O My Land, My Friends: The Selected Letters of Hart Crane, edited by Langdon Hammer and Brom Weber

By Christopher Tidwell
From the Spring 1999 Issue
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on The American Prose Poem: Poetic Form and the Boundaries of Genre by Michel Delville

By Brett Foster
From the Spring 1999 Issue
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Worlds and Seas: Poets on Poetry (on The Work of Poetry by John Hollander; Some Necessary Angels: Essays on Writing and Politics by Jay Parini; and The Catbird’s Song: Prose Pieces 1963-1995 by Richard Wilbur)

By Edward Butscher
From the Spring 1999 Issue
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Edward Butscher’s poetry and criticism have appeared in numerous literary journals and publications, including the Saturday Review of Literature, Newsday, and the American Book Review. In 1976 he published the first biography of Sylvia Plath, and in 1988 his biography Conrad Aiken: Poet of White Horse Vale won the Poetry Society of America’s Melville Cane Award.