Why Are So Many Americans in Prison?

Glenn C. Loury

Spit

Christine Garren

Back to the Future

Robert Blecher and Jeremy Pressman

The Curse of Modernity

George Scialabba

The Greenness of Grass Is a Positive Quality

Samuel Amadon

In the Sweep of History

Anatol Lieven

The Prince of Rivers

Craig Morgan Teicher

Lucho

Patricia Engel

Lullaby

Carrie Robb

Whole Sight

Charles Johnson

The Folded Message

Christine Garren

Nabokov’s Gift

Roger Boylan

Millions of Strange Shadows on You Tend

Cal Bedient

Brazil’s Dreamer

Scott Saul

This book can’t be sung

Brian Teare

Found in Translation

Aura Estrada

Reviewed:

How I Became a Nun

by César Aira, trans. Chris Andrews. New Directions, 2007.

Amulet

by Roberto Bolaño, trans. Chris Andrews. New Directions, 2006.

The very air

Brian Teare

In Search of John Ashbery

Forrest Gander

Reviewed:

A Worldly Country

by John Ashbery. Ecco Press, 2007.

Prisoners’ Poems

G. C. Waldrep

Reviewed:

Captivity

by Laurie Sheck. Knopf, 2007.

Light and Twilight

Karen Volkman

Reviewed:

The Flowers of Evil

by Charles Baudelaire, trans. Keith Waldrop. Wesleyan University Press, 2006.

MicroReviews

Reviewed:

Black Milk

by Tory Dent. Sleep Meadow Press, 2005.

Puppet Wardrobe

by Daniel Tiffany. Parlor Press, 2006.

Magnetic North

by Linda Gregerson. Houghton Mifflin, 2007.

Civilization

by Elizabeth Arnold. Flood Editions, 2006.

Necessary Stranger

by Graham Foust. Flood Editions, 2007.

Poet’s Sampler

Jorie Graham introduces Ewa Chrusciel

A Care in the World

Alan A. Stone