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