Forum: Think Globally, Lose Locally
Theodore J. Lowi
With responses from Susan Rose-Ackerman, Sanford Lewis, Gerald E. Frug, Donald F. Kettl, Jerry L. Mashaw, Joel F. Handler, and Charles F. Sabel. Lowi replies.
The Spacious Firmament
John Ashbery
Going Away Any Time Soon
John Ashbery
Of the Woe That Swallows Hue
Heather McHugh
Arm and Pec (the 2 adillos)
Heather McHugh
Poet’s Sampler
Claudia Rankine introduces Alicia Rabins
They have the numbers; we, the heights
Harold Bloom
Gorris’s Dalloway
Alan A. Stone
Correspondence
Jane Yeh
Two Stories
Norberto Luis Romero (trans. H. E. Francis)
Underneath (9)
Jorie Graham
Darwin on the Mind
Jeremy C. Ahouse and Robert C. Berwick
Reviewed:
How the Mind Works
by Steven Pinker. W. W. Norton, 1997.
These Pretty Years
Lynn Melnick
Poetry
Reviewed:
The Mooring of Starting Out: The First Five Books of Poetry
by John Ashbery. Ecco Press, 1997.
Desire
by Frank Bidart. Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1997.
Shroud of the Gnome
by James Tate. Ecco Press, 1997.
Prose
Reviewed:
The Libertine Reader: Eroticism and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century France
edited by Michel Feher. Zone Books, 1997.
The First Moderns: Profiles in the Origins of Twentieth-Century Thought
by William Everdell. University of Chicago Press, 1997.
In 1926: Living on the Edge of Time
by Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht. Harvard University Press, 1998.
Civility: Manners, Morals, and the Etiquette of Democracy
by Stephen L. Carter. Basic Books, 1998.
MicroReviews
Reviewed:
Glare
by A. R. Ammons. W. W. Norton, 1997.
Elemenopy
by Michael Coffey. Sun & Moon Press, 1996.
The Poem’s Heartbeat: A Manual of Prosody
by Alfred Corn. Story Line Press, 1997.
The Woman Who Died in Her Sleep
by Linda Gregerson. Houghton Mifflin, 1998.
Incorrect Distances
by Tracy Philpot. University of Georgia Press, 1997.
The Diary of James Schuyler
edited by Nathan Kernan. Black Sparrow Press, 1997.
Art for Art’s Sake and Literary Life: How Politics and Markets Helped Shape the Ideology and Culture of Aestheticism 1790-1990
by Gene H. Bell-Villada. University of Nebraska Press, 1996.
Hell: A Novel
by Kathryn Davis. Ecco Press, 1998.
The Girl, Painted
by Eve Shelnutt. Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1996.
Exile and Creativity: Signposts, Travelers, Outsiders, Backward Glances
edited by Susan Rubin Suleiman. Duke University Press, 1998.
Faithless
by John L. Williams. Serpent’s Tail, 1997.
To the Author of Glare
David Lehman
