Fall 2001
Table of Contents
Special Feature
A Letter to Bishop Robert E. Jones
In Praise of the Black Mother: An Unpublished Faulkner Letter on “Mammy” Caroline Barr
Last Words to James Wright
The Sound That Comes from Character: An Interview with Louis Simpson on the Life and Poetry of James Wright
The True Shape of Poetry: A Reading and a Conversation
Essays
The Most Precious Square of Sense: In Praise of Shakespeare’s “Politics”
Warring Memories
Fiction
Escape
Getting the Story
Heed
One of Star Wars, One of Doom
Passing for Faith
The Inheritance
Poetry
Grand Forks
I Would Trade Places with Your Death
Imagining Grace
Myopia
November: Journal Entry
Ochre
The Bean Sprout
The Bobcat
The Invisible Is Not Lost
Widow’s Weather
Art
Still Home
Reviews
“I Am Telling You This as Calmly as I Can”: A Review of Recent Poetry Chapbooks All in All by Laura Chester; Catch and Release by Jamie Simpson; Fear of Everything by David Starkey; The Memphis Sun by Jim Murphy; A Day’s Work by Rick Campbell; Blue Numbers, Red Life by Roy Jacobstein; and Lilting by R. T. Smith)
American Theater Watch, 2000–2001
Crass Casualty (on Casualties by Ron Rash; Marked Men by Michael C. White; Glory Goes and Gets Some: Stories by Emily Carter; Troublemakers by John McNally; and Scar Vegas and Other Stories by Tom Paine)
Natural Selection (on The Wick of Memory: New and Selected Poems, 1970-2000 by Dave Smith; Knowing: New and Selected Poems by Jonathan Holden; The Blessing: New and Selected Poems by Richard Jones; Selected Poems of Anne Sexton by Anne Sexton, edited and with an introduction by Diane Wood Middlebrook and Diana Hume George; Sweet Confluence: New and Selected Poems by Susan Ludvigson; and The Selected Levis by Larry Levis, selected and with an afterword by David St. John)
on Karmic Traces, 1993-1999 by Eliot Weinberger
on Miłosz’s ABC’s: Memories, Dreams and Reflections from the Nobel Laureate by Czesław Miłosz, translated by Madeline G. Levine
on The Scarlet Professor: Newton Arvin, A Literary Life Shattered by Scandal by Barry Werth
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