Winter 2007
Table of Contents
Special Feature
“A Writer’s Face”: The Letters of Harry Crews (with commentary by Doug Carlson)
“If I Do My Job Right”: Harry Crews and His Readers
Leaving Home for Home
Essays
Asystole
Is and Was
Fiction
A Fable Containing a Reflection the Size of a Match Head in Its Pupil
How Are We Going to Lose This One?
Poetry
A Hand Is Shaped for What It Holds or Makes
After the Storm
driving past the smith mortuary on seventh street
Judith Bearing the Head of Holofernes
Mum’s the word
Signed On & Tool
The Pastor’s Wife Considers Her Fifty-Seventh Birthday
Yellow House
Art
Momentary Landscapes
Reviews
Intense Agitation (on Time to Get Some Things Straight by John Repp; Black Poem by Gary Copeland Lilley; The Making of Collateral Beauty by Mark Yakich; The Invention of Fiction by Rick Bursky;Elegy and Collapse by Patty Paine; Coming to Flood by Sebastian Matthews; Leave Time by Jeff Worley; A House That Falls by Sean Nevin; Daphne and Jim: A Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Biography in Verse by Laurel Snyder; Hard Rain by Tony Hoagland; Dusk Outside the Braille Press by Paul Hostovsky; One by Diane Kerr; Carmina Detroit by Dawn McDuffie; Fern-Texts by Reginald Gibbons; First Things to Hand by Robert Pinsky; and The Packing House Cantata by William Trowbridge)
No Place Like Home (on The Woman in the Woods: Linked Stories by Ann Joslin Williams; You Won’t Remember This: Stories by Kate Blackwell; Thoreau’s Laundry by Ann Harleman; The View From Castle Rock: Stories by Alice Munro)
on Ralph Ellison: A Biography by Arnold Rampersad
Vision and Virtuosity (on Half/Mask by Roger Mitchell; Escaping the House of Certainty by Susan Ludvigson; My Brother Is Getting Arrested Again by Daisy Fried; Wind in a Box by Terrance Hayes; and This Clumsy Living by Bob Hicok)
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