Fall 2008 Issue
458 To Our Readers
SPECIAL FEATURE
507 Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell "It Is
a Marvelous Book": Correspondence
(with an introduction by Stephen Corey
ESSAYS
460 Rebecca Emlinger Roberts The Art of Looking Down
472 Stephen Dunn Forms and Structures
551 Edward J. Larson Approaching the Rubicon and Crossing the Bar: Washington’s Death and the Rise of Republican Rule
564 Judith Kitchen The Speed of Light
586 Neil Mathison Memory and Helix: What Comes to
Us from the Past
FICTION
484 Jacob White The Days Down Here
533 James Terry The Wildcat Massacre
POETRY
469 Albert Goldbarth October
471 Elton Glaser Watchdog
482 Lola Haskins Moles and My Heart (Cut View)
506 Liz Rosenberg Of Dust
519 Frank X. Gaspar These Are the Last Good Days
of the Republic and I Wander Down My Street Because I Cannot Find a Book
521 Richard Jackson The Heart’s Uncertain Myths
about Itself
584 Frannie Lindsay Elegy for My Father
601 David Swanger Conjugations
ART
523 Judy Pfaff Buckets of Rain
REVIEWS
603 Gerald Weales American Theater
Watch, 2007–2008
612 Paul Zimmer Where Does the Poetry Go?
(on Doyle D. Turner’s Time Is a Parlor Trick and Other Poems; Mary Kaiser’s Falling into Velázquez; Josephine Jacobsen’s Contents of a Minute; Mary Ruefle’s A Little White Shadow; Barton Sutter’s The Reindeer Camps; Gerald Stern’s The Preacher; Robert Bly’s Turkish Pears in August: Twenty-Four Ramages; John Graber’s Only on This Planet; and Warren Slesinger’s A Word for It)
624 Kevin Clark “Even Sincerity”: On the Viability
of the Self in Contemporary Poetry
(on Dan Chiasson’s One Kind of Everything: Poem and Person in Contemporary America; Dark Horses: Poets on Overlooked Poems, edited by Joy Katz and Kevin Prufer; and American Poets in the 21st Century: The New Poetics, edited by Claudia Rankine and Lisa Sewell)
635 CONTRIBUTORS