Fall 2009
Table of Contents
Essays
Four Cats and the Pathetic Fallacy
O Taste and See
On the Border
Fiction
I Feel Like Being Nice Today
The Shield of the Norns
Unstuck
Poetry
American Primitives
Feeling Sorry for Myself after the Collapse of Civilization
His Wife
Starting Out from Ted Hughes’s Letters & My Face and My Voice
Sticks; Goose; & Explosion
Taoism: A Primer
The Black Humvee and the Blue Tangs & Ghost Gear
The Book of the Dead Man (The Sun)
The You of the Mottoes
Vanitas
Watchful
Art
Memento Mori
Reviews
American Theater Watch, 2008–2009
How Well We Know So Little: The Sequence in Post-Postmodern Poetry (on Katie Ford’s Colosseum; Christopher Buckley’s Modern History: Prose Poems 1987–2007; and Rita Dove’s Sonata Mulattica)
Novellas for the New Millennium (on Phillip Lopate’s Two Marriages; Patrick Michael Finn’s A Martyr for Suzy Kosasovich; and William H. Gass’s Cartesian Sonata and Other Novellas)
on Collected Poems by Ciaran Carson
on Notes from No Man’s Land by Eula Biss
Seconds (on Sharon Olds’s One Secret Thing; The Dream We Carry: Selected and Last Poems of Olav H. Hauge, translated by Robert Bly and Robert Hedin; Kevin Goodan’s Winter Tenor; Richard Kenney’s The One-Strand River: Poems 1994–2007; and Carl Phillips’ Speak Low)
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