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Rilke and the Requiem

By William Gass
From the Winter 2004 Issue
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Death in the Face

By Robert Fox
From the Winter 2004 Issue
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The Levanto

By Ewing Campbell
From the Winter 2004 Issue
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Tears: An Assay; “And”: An Assay; & Ah!: An Assay

By Jane Hirshfield
From the Winter 2004 Issue
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Jane Hirshfield’s most recent books are The Beauty (Knopf, 2015), longlisted for the National Book Award in Poetry, and Ten Windows: How Great Poems Transform the World (Knopf, 2015), winner of the Northern California Book Award. A chancellor emerita of the Academy of American Poets, Hirshfield has had work in the New Yorker, the Atlantic, the Times Literary Supplement, the New York Review of Books, and eight editions of The Best American Poetry.

Two Sides of a Tortoise: Melville, Dickens, and the Eclipse of the West’s Moral Imagination

By David Bosworth
From the Winter 2004 Issue
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David Bosworth’s two most recent books, historical studies of cultural change, are The Demise of Virtue in Virtual America: The Moral Origins of the Great Recession (Front Porch Republic, 2014) and Conscientious Thinking: Making Sense in an Age of Idiot Savants (University of Georgia Press, 2017). A resident of Seattle, he is a professor in (and the former director of) the University of Washington’s creative-writing program.

Femme

By Aryn Kyle
From the Winter 2004 Issue
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Taking Emerson Personally

By John Lysaker
From the Winter 2004 Issue
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Seeking Words; Last Supper; Milan Cathedral Eclipse; Bad Waters; The Clam-Rake Room; Gene Vincent’s Blue Cap; The Altar; & The Quail Men of Churchland

By Dave Smith
From the Winter 2004 Issue
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Dave Smith is the Elliott Coleman Professor of Poetry in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University. His newest book of poems, Hawks on Wires, is forthcoming from LSU Press this fall. Along with Robert DeMott, he edited the essay anthology Afield: Writers on Bird Dogs (Skyhorse Press, 2010).

Taking Poe Seriously

By J. T. Barbarese
From the Winter 2004 Issue
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