Spring 2008 Issue
7 To Our Readers
ESSAYS
16 Ihab Hassan Fundamentalism and Literature
35 Reg Saner Back Where the Past Is Mined
81 Elizabeth Dodd Disorder
INTERVIEW
154 Pattiann Rogers and Gordon Johnston
Breaking Old Forms: A Conversation
FICTION
100 Tracy Daugherty Bern
135 Jerry McGahan Reclamations
POETRY
11 Keith Ratzlaff Ending with a Line from “Sir
Patrick Spens”
13 Albert Goldbarth Round, Polished Stones
30 Fleda Brown Roofers
31 Philip Levine The Two Tinos and Words on
the Wind
70 Brian Turner Wading Out
95 Stephen Dunn An Abbreviated Tour of the Not Yet
Fallen World and Language: A Love Poem
99 Gary Gildner Spring Evenings
130 Lynne Knight Living with Fog
132 Sydney Lea The Shriek
150 Pattiann Rogers Night and the Creation of Geography and At Work
ART
72 Bart Michiels The Course of History
REVIEWS
178 Greg Johnson Getting a Life
(on John Stubbs’s John Donne: The Reformed Soul; Ann Wroe’s Being Shelley: The Poet’s Search for Himself; Claire Tomalin’s Thomas Hardy; Hermione Lee’s Edith Wharton; Joanne Marshall Mauldin’s Thomas Wolfe: When Do the Atrocities Begin?; and Philip Davis’ Bernard Malamud: A Writer’s Life)
188 Judith Kitchen The Omnivorous Omnibus
(on Michael O’Brien’s Sleeping and Waking; Meghan O’Rourke’s Halflife; Robert Hass’s Time and Materials: Poems 1997–2005; Philip Schultz’s Failure; and Stanley Plumly’s Old Heart)
204 Robert Schnall The Poet’s Eye: Essays on Poetry
(on Tony Hoagland’s Real Sofistikashun: Essays on Poetry and Craft; Donald Revell’s The Art of Attention: A Poet’s
Eye; and James Longenbach’s The Art of the Poetic Line)
210 Kelly Cherry on Valentines: Stories by Olaf Olafsson
213 CONTRIBUTORS
