Spring 2008
Table of Contents
Essays
Back Where the Past Is Mined
Disorder
Fundamentalism and Literature
Fiction
Bern
Reclamations
Poetry
An Abbreviated Tour of the Not Yet Fallen World & Language: A Love Poem
Ending with a Line from “Sir Patrick Spens”
Living with Fog
Night and the Creation of Geography & At Work
Roofers
Round, Polished Stones
Spring Evenings
The Shriek
The Two Tinos & Words on the Wind
Wading Out
Art
The Course of History
Reviews
Getting a Life (on John Donne: The Reformed Soul by John Stubbs; Being Shelley: The Poet’s Search for Himself by Ann Wroe; Thomas Hardy by Claire Tomalin; Edith Wharton by Hermione Lee; Thomas Wolfe: When Do the Atrocities Begin? by Joanne Marshall Mauldin; and Bernard Malamud: A Writer’s Life by Philip Davis)
on Valentines: Stories by Olaf Olafsson
The Omnivorous Omnibus (on Sleeping and Waking by Michael O’Brien; Halflife by Meghan O’Rourke; Time and Materials: Poems 1997–2005 by Robert Hass; Failure by Philip Schultz; Old Heart by Stanley Plumly)
The Poet’s Eye: Essays on Poetry (on Real Sofistikashun: Essays on Poetry and Craft by Tony Hoagland; The Art of Attention: A Poet’s Eye by Donald Revell; & The Art of the Poetic Line by James Longenbach)
Interview
Breaking Old Forms: A Conversation
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