Summer 2003
Table of Contents
Essays
Mrs. Twomey
The Arrogance of Poetry
The Work of Lyric: Night and Day
Where Feeling Dwells: On Reading Marianne Moore
Fiction
Il Cortigiano of Thomas Avenue
Newsworld
Three Funerals
Poetry
A Cowardice of Husbands
Abundance
Caduceus
Can’t You Hear the Wind Howl?; The Persimmon Bough; & Paradise
Eight Essays on Linguistic Disobedience
Exhaustion
Five Untitled Poems
Ghost Weather
Melville
Naming
Plowman
The Pyramids of Malpighi
The Sweater
This is for the silver of highway
Three or Four Stories That Do or Don’t Touch
W. H. Auden, Leaving Lubbock, Texas, Writes a Sonnet
Words Taken to Heart: Four Answers to One Question
Art
Prairie Air
Reviews
In Trouble (on The Finger Bone by Kevin Prufer; Trouble Lights by William Olsen; Dumb Luck by Sam Hamill; Beyond the Reach by Deborah Cummins; and Still Life with Waterfall by Eamon Grennan)
on Cogito, Ergo Sum: The Life of René Descartes by Richard Watson
Poets on Poets and Poetry (on Poetry as Survival by Gregory Orr; God and the Imagination: On Poets, Poetry, and the Ineffable by Paul Mariani; The Demon and the Angel: Searching for the Source of Artistic Inspiration by Edward Hirsch; Desperate Measures by William Logan; and The Instant of Knowing: Lectures, Criticism, and Occasional Prose by Josephine Jacobsen and Elizabeth Spires)
Shapes of American Lives (on Phantom Limb by Janet Sternburg; City: An Essay by Brian Lennon; No Such Country: Essays toward Home by Elmar Lueth; and A Memoir of No One in Particular by Daniel Harris)
Interview
A Sacred Vision: An Interview with Czesław Miłosz
Past Issues
