2018
Online Exclusives
Contents
Essays
Poetry
A Visit to the Doctor
West 26th Street
Art Feature
Caricature of Simon Perchik
Interviews
No Language Feels Small When You’re in It: A Conversation with Poet-Translators David Keplinger and Patrick Phillips
By Nicky Beer
Reviews
An Unforeseen Destiny: Pinochet, History, and Memory
Luck: A Grammar No One’s Parsed
Howard Frank Mosher’s Northern Borders
By Thomas Bahr
Jim Crace’s Signals of Distress
By Mark Bates
Who Owns Death?
Dissonant Raptures
I Happen to Like New York
By Jim Behrle
Where I Am Is So Large
By Jim Behrle
Carl Phillips’s In the Blood and Liam Rector’s American Prodigal
By Erin Belieu
Translated by Carl Phillips and Liam Rector
American Joe
By Nell Beram
Found in the Dreamhouse
Real Right Things?
By Charles Bock
Better with Age
“As the Songwriter Wrote . . .”
The Biography of Displacement
Rose Alley
The Language of Sorrow
By Rafael Campo
Cathleen Schine’s The Love Letter
Reawakening a Literary Giant: Michel Tournier
Montale’s Candor
By Dan Chiasson
In Lucrezia Borgia’s Chair
From New Grapes to a Complex Wine
Ted Berrigan’s Selected Poems
Joe Brainard’s Art
Son et Lumière
By Alfred Corn
Stretch Your Weary Legs Out Under This Tree
Diana Der-Hovanessian’s Selected Poems
By Ellen Davis
A Jack Keroac ROMnibus CD-ROM
Plumbing the Underworld
Cover My Body with Mud, Give Me Back My Eyes
By Valerie Duff
A Terrible Beauty is Born
By Valerie Duff
Carl Phillips’s Cortège and Alan Shapiro’s Mixed Company
By Kathy Fagan
Translated by Carl Phillips and Alan Shapiro
Tome for the “Bett’ring of the Time”
By Brett Foster
From Baghdad to Bohemia
The Century as Experiment: Reading Poems for the Millenium
Inclusions
By Thom Gunn
“There Are Other Stories”: Pamela Painter’s The Long and Short of It
Translated by Pamela Painter
A Real Modest Proposal
By Zhu Hong
Jane Kenyon’s Constance
By Marie Howe
The West and Genocide in Africa
By Edward Kissi
Gary Snyder’s Mountains and Rivers Without End
By John Lane
A Wider Vision
By Linda Lappin
The Clarity of Pain Without Despair; Stuart Dischell’s Good Hope Road
By Joseph Lease
Translated by Stuart Dischell
Chang Rea-Lee’s Native Speaker
By Don Lee
Democracy’s Disconnect
By David Lehn
Seeing Dickinson Plain: Editorial Strategies and the Poet’s Intentions
Dzivinia Orlowsky’s A Handful of Bees
By Mary Maxwell
The Authentic is a Line
By Eric McHenry
Opportunity Knocks
By Diane Mehta
Swords and Scalpels
By Rose Moss
Significant Others
David Treuer’s Little
Domestic Shadows: Poems from Home
“Here I Am, Lord”
William Corbett’s New & Selected Poems
A World Reformed
David St. John’s Study for the World’s Body
Visiting This Life
Paul Goodman
Two Reviews
Bruce Smith’s Mercy Seat and Martin Edmunds’s The High Road to Taos
By Don Share
Translated by Bruce Smith and Martin Edmunds
Twisting into Grace
In Memoriam
The Humanist’s Muse
By Drew Swinger
Brodsky Interviewed
By Drew Swinger
The Linguistic Blizzard Beating Still
The Mind’s Way of Hanging On
Collective Lives
John Wieners: Through This Suspended Vacuum
By Joseph Torra
Trilce
By Mark Wagner
Austin Wright’s After Gregory: The Suspect Self
By Chris Walsh
Two Seconds
By George Weld