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Thinking About Love (on Orpheus and Eurydice by Gregory Orr; Against Love Poetry by Eavan Boland; The Other Life by Andrea Hollander Budy; The Tether by Carl Phillips; The Seven Ages by Louise Glück; Given Sugar, Given Salt by Jane Hirshfield; and Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten-Second Essays by James Richardson)

Available in our Summer 2002 issue.

By Judith Kitchen

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This Point in Space and Time (on The Boy with the Thorn in His Side: A Memoir by Keith Fleming; Honky by Dalton Conley; Dreaming of Columbus: A Boyhood in the Bronx by Michael Pearson; Winning the Dust Bowl by Carter Revard; and Cidermaster of Rio Oscura by Harvey Frauenglass)

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By Jeff Gundy

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Knit One, Purl Two (on Who Is My Neighbor? by Minta Sue Berry; Yellow by Don Lee; The Hunger Bone: Rock and Roll Stories by Debra Marquart; Faithless: Tales of Transgression by Joyce Carol Oates; and My Lord Bag of Rice: New and Selected Stories by Carol Bly)

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By Kathleen Snodgrass

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Serious Reading in Serious Trouble (on Listening to the Page: Adventures in Reading and Writing by Alan Cheuse; The Crafty Reader by Robert E. Scholes; and Marginalia: Readers Writing in Books by H. J. Jackson)

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By Sanford Pinsker

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on Loss Within Loss: Artists in the Age of AIDS by Edmund White

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By Myles Weber

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on Queen for a Day: Selected and New Poems by Denise Duhamel

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By William Trowbridge

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The Personal Essay and the Complicated Eye/I (on The Private I: Privacy in the Public World, edited by Molly Peacock; Bodies in Motion and at Rest: On Metaphor and Mortality by Thomas Lynch; Grave Goods: Essays of a Peculiar Nature by John P. O’Grady; and Many Circles: New and Selected Essays by Albert Goldbarth)

Available in our Fall 2002 issue.

By Sanford Pinsker

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A Gathering of Literary Tribes: “Small” Magazine Anthologies (on Best of Prairie Schooner: Fiction and Poetry, edited by Hilda Raz; Best of Prairie Schooner: Personal Essays, edited by Hilda Raz and Kate Flaherty; A Fine Excess: Fifty Years of The Beloit Poetry Journal, edited by Marion K. Stocking; The Body Electric: America’s Best Poetry from the American Poetry Review, edited by Stephen Berg, David Bonanno, and Arthur Vogelsang; and Three special issues of Poetry East [boxed set], edited by Richard Jones

Available in our Fall 2002 issue.

By Edward Butscher

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“It Can Take Awhile Until You Sound Like Yourself”: A Review of Recent Poetry Chapbooks (on Hands-On Saints by Holly Iglesias; Cooking in Key West by Ed Ochester; The Genuine Negro Hero by Thomas Sayers Ellis; The Spirit of Blue Ink by Walter Pavlich; Freight by Sondra Upham; and Against Elegies by Jack Ridl)

Available in our Fall 2002 issue.

By Paul Zimmer

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First Aid

Collaborations, Water and Light (with an interview by Douglas Carlson)

Teaching Ecopoetry in a Time of Climate Change

The Lonely Ruralist

Influenza 1918

Itō Grows Ill, A Bird Transforms into a Blossom, and The Giant Trees St...

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Returns: Cherokee Diaspora and Art (with an introduction by Ashley Holland)

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Gardens at the Margins

Monumental Achievements

Future Fossils (with an introduction by Taylor Bradley)

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on Valentine Ackland: A Transgressive Life by Frances Bingham

on Wild Spectacle by Janisse Ray

on So Forth by Rosanna Warren

Du Bois for the Moment, Du Bois for the Millennium (on W. E. B....

on On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint by Maggie Nelson

on Asked What Has Changed by Ed Roberson

on Aerial Concave without Cloud by Sueyeun Juliette Lee

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