Spring 2004

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Spring 2004

Table of Contents

Special Feature

Essays

Benediction: On Being Boswell’s Boswell

Despite This Pearl

Rilke’s Rodin

Poetry

14 rue Serpentine

Disputanta to Zuni

Gypsy Fiddle; Horton’s Store; & Summertime

Hyper-

Metes and Bounds & Boy Hunting in Bog

Nap Time

Ode to the Perineum

Rhumba & Samba Summer

Strangers in This City Where We Have Come Seeking a Cure for Her Cancer; My Daughter and I Drive Up to the Clinic; & The Widow Speaks

The Garden of Consummation

To the Occupant of Apartment 6X

Warren’s Flowers

Winter’s Tale

Art

Eastman’s Rodin

Reviews

Batter My Heart (on Lot of My Sister by Alison Stine; The Scottish Café by Susan H. Case; Three by Stephen Philbrick; Rendered into Paradise by Jean Feraca; Lost River by James Tate; A Tree Ogham by Marcia L. Hurlow; Earthbound and Singing to the Garden by Roger Pfingston; and Light Made from Nothing by Susan Elbe)

on Library: An Unquiet History by Matthew Battles

on Lives of the Artists by Dennis Vannatta

on Mailman by J. Robert Lennon

on Notes from a Divided Country by Suji Kwock Kim

Second Thoughts: On Rereading Robert Lowell (on Collected Poems by Robert Lowell, Frank Bidart, and David Gewanter)

The Vigil of Astonishment (on The Mercy Seat: Collected and New Poems, 1967-2001 by Norman Dubie)