WINTER 2012

To Our Readers

ESSAYS

Maxine Kumin Metamorphosis: From Light Verse to the Poetry of Witness
Paul Zimmer Reliquaries
Stephen Dunn Poetry Now, and Some Thoughts on History, As If, Maybe, and No
Jeffrey Meyers Art and Anguish: Elizabeth Hardwick’s Letters to Robert Lowell

FICTION

Christopher Ross Luminaria
Julia Elliott Rapture
René Houtrides Griffonia

POETRY

David Roderick After de Tocqueville
Richard Bernstein No Sermons in Stone
Sarah Gordon Reliquary
Laurie Kutchins Let’s Ask the Fox
Coleman Barks The VOICE inside WATER
Brian Simoneau Watson and the Shark
Fleda Brown The Sex Life of Anacondas
Doug Ramspeck Crow Music
Patricia Corbus Your Horoscope Today

ART

Jane Alexander Surveys (from the Cape of Good Hope)

REVIEWS

Judith Kitchen With a Little Help from My Friends (on Natasha Trethewey’s Thrall; Kathleen Flenniken’s Plume; John Hodgen’s In My Father’s House; Alice Derry’s Tremolo; and Lola Haskins’ The Grace to Leave)

Myles Weber on Stella Adler on America’s Master Playwrights: Eugene O’Neill, Thornton Wilder, Clifford Odets, William Saroyan, Tennessee Williams, William Inge, Arthur Miller, Edward Albee, edited by Barry Paris

Linda Simon on Monopolizing the Master: Henry James and the Politics of Modern Literary Scholarship by Michael Anesko

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