Winter 2007 Issue
679 To Our Readers
SPECIAL FEATURE
684 Larry Baker “If I Do My Job Right”: Harry Crews and His Readers
701 Harry Crews Leaving Home for Home
742 “A Writer’s Face”: The Letters of Harry Crews
(with commentary by Douglas Carlson)
ESSAYS
780 Jennifer Culkin Asystole
797 Marianne Boruch Is and Was
FICTION
766 George Singleton How Are We Going to Lose
This One?
819 Kevin Brockmeier A Fable Containing a Reflection the Size of a Match Headin Its Pupil
POETRY
760 Bob Hicok Mum’s the word
762 J. Allyn Rosser Judith Bearing the Head of Holofernes
777 Sally Smits driving past the smith mortuary on seventh street
786 Robert Dana After the Storm
814 Albert Goldbarth Signed On and Tool
824 Jane Hirshfield A Hand Is Shaped for What It
Holds or Makes
825 Sydney Lea Yellow House
827 Nola Garrett The Pastor’s Wife Considers Her
Fifty-Seventh Birthday
ART
788 Pentti Sammallahti Momentary Landscapes
REVIEWS
829 Jeff Gundy Vision and Virtuosity
(on Roger Mitchell’s Half/Mask; Susan Ludvigson’s Escaping the House of Certainty; Daisy Fried’s My Brother Is Getting Arrested Again; Terrance Hayes’s Wind in a Box; and Bob Hicok’s This Clumsy Living)
844 Kathleen Snodgrass No Place Like Home
(on Ann Joslin Williams’ The Woman in the Woods: Linked Stories; Kate Blackwell’s You Won’t Remember This:
Stories; Ann Harleman’s Thoreau’s Laundry; and Alice Munro’s The View from Castle Rock: Stories)
857 Paul Zimmer Intense Agitation
(on John Repp’s Time to Get Some Things Straight; Gary Copeland Lilley’s Black Poem; Mark Yakich’s The Making of Collateral Beauty; Rick Bursky’s The Invention of Fiction; Patty Paine’s Elegy and Collapse; Sebastian Matthews’ Coming to Flood; Jeff Worley’s Leave Time; Sean Nevin’s A House That Falls; Laurel Snyder’s Daphne and Jim: A Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Biography in Verse; Tony Hoagland’s Hard Rain; Paul Hostovsky’s Dusk Outside the Braille Press; Diane Kerr’s One; Dawn McDuffie’s Carmina Detroit; Reginald Gibbons’ Fern-Texts; Robert Pinsky’s First Things to Hand; and William Trowbridge’s The Packing House Cantata)
870 Myles Weber on Ralph Ellison: A Biography by Arnold Rampersad
874 Robert Rebein on Landscapes with Figures: The Nonfiction of Place edited by Robert Root
877 Book Briefs by Dorine Preston and Melisa
Cahnmann-Taylor
880 READERS’ FORUM
882 CONTRIBUTORS