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)
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