Fall 2008

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Fall 2008

Table of Contents

Special Feature

“It Is a Marvelous Book”: Correspondence

Essays

Approaching the Rubicon and Crossing the Bar: Washington’s Death and the Rise of Republican Rule

Forms and Structures

Memory and Helix: What Comes to Us from the Past

The Art of Looking Down

The Speed of Light

Fiction

The Days Down Here

The Wildcat Massacre

Poetry

Conjugations

Elegy for My Father

Moles & My Heart (Cut View)

October

Of Dust

The Heart’s Uncertain Myths about Itself

These Are the Last Good Days of the Republic & I Wander Down My Street Because I Cannot Find a Book

Watchdog

Reviews

“Even Sincerity”: On the Viability of the Self in Contemporary Poetry (on One Kind of Everything: Poem and Person in Contemporary America by Dan Chiasson; Dark Horses: Poets on Overlooked Poems by Joy Katz and Kevin Prufer; and American Poets in the 21st Century: The New Poetics by Claudia Rankine and Lisa Sewell)

American Theater Watch, 2007–2008

Where Does the Poetry Go? (on Time Is a Parlor Trick and Other Poems by Doyle D. Turner; Falling into Velázquez by Mary Kaiser; Contents of a Minute by Josephine Jacobsen; A Little White Shadow by Mary Ruefle; The Reindeer Camps by Barton Sutter; The Preacher by Gerald Stern; Turkish Pears in August: Twenty-Four Ramages by Robert Bly; Only on This Planet by John Graber; and A Word for It by Warren Slesinger)