Forum: War and Democracy
A Warning from History
John W. Dower
Waiting for War in Damascus
Helena Cobban
Nationalism’s Mixed Hopes
Uday Singh Mehta
The Best Defense
Neta C. Crawford
Imaginary Places
Rae Armantrout
As One
Rae Armantrout
La Musica Nuova
Suara Daria
“Sweet” and “She Began”
Diane Williams
Skirting the Issue
Patrick Erouart-Siad
Hall of Records
Emily Fragos
Maxwell’s Lives
James Campbell
The Politics of Rescue
Carroll Bogert
Can Social Movements Save Democracy?
Archon Fung
Prothalamion
Timothy Liu
Nonfiction MicroReviews
Reviewed:
Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination
by Robin D. G. Kelley. Beacon Press, 2002.
The Gatekeepers: Inside the Admissions Process of a Premier College
by Jacques Steinberg. Viking Press, 2002.
Reflections on Exile and Other Essays
by Edward W. Said. Harvard University Press, 2000.
War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning
by Chris Hedges. Public Affairs, 2002.
Poet’s Sampler
Peter Gizzi introduces Aaron Kunin
Celebrating Presence
Tod Marshall
Portrait
Bill Knott
Laughter and Oblivion
Sarah Manguso
Reviewed:
Skid
by Dean Young. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2002.
Poem
Bill Knott
Poetic I.D.’s
Thomas Fink
Reviewed:
Borrowed Love Poems
by John Yau. Penguin Poets, 2002.
The Uncertainty of Knowing
James Longenbach
Reviewed:
Rock Harbor
by Carl Phillips. Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 2002.
A Man, His Dog, and Some Fish: An Aubade
Brian Henry
Poetry MicroReviews
Reviewed:
Oubliette
by Peter Richards. Verse Press, 2001.
The Sex Lives of the Poor and Obscure
by David Schloss. Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2001.
Far Out West
by Clark Coolidge. Adventures in Poetry, 2001.
Source
by Mark Doty. HarperCollins, 2002.
The Seven Ages
by Louise Glück. Ecco/HarperCollins, 2002.
Horace, the Odes: New Translations by Contemporary Poets
edited by J. D. McClatchy. Princeton University Press, 2002.
Musica Humana
by Ilya Kaminsky. Chapiteau Press, 2002.
Reel Terrorism
Alan A. Stone
