Forum: When Rights Are Wrong

Tracey L. Meares and Dan M. Kahan

With responses from Alan M. Dershowitz, Jean Bethke Elshtain, Joel F. Handler, Carol S. Steiker, Wesley G. Skogan, Margaret A. Burnham, Franklin E. Zimring, Jeremy Waldron, Bernard E. Harcourt, Anthony Paul Farley, and Richard H. Pildes. Meares and Kahan reply.

Censorship

Lee Upton

[because as lives are aching I am lucky: a poisonal cup]

D. A. Powell

No. 2 Pencil Quaquaversal Shout

Calvin Bedient

Ghazal

Agha Shahid Ali

Silence Is Death

Eva Thorne

From Utopia to Myopia

Russell Jacoby

Uncle Franz’s Legacy

Vivian Rothstein

Getting Out (15)

Robert Lietz

Air for Mercury

Brenda Hillman

Escape from Auschwitz

Alan A. Stone

Poet’s Sampler

Charles Bernstein introduces Tan Lin

Club Chaos

Neil Shister

The Night of the Scorpions

Elisha Porat

SHAZAM!

Allen Grossman

Poetry

Reviewed:

Hay

by Paul Muldoon. Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1998.

Thieves of Paradise

by Yusef Komunyakaa. Wesleyan University Press, 1998.

Green Sees Things in Waves

by August Kleinzahler. Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1998.

Poetry On and Off the Page: Essays for Emergent Occasions

by Marjorie Perloff. Northwestern University Press, 1998.

Prose

Reviewed:

John Coltrane: His Life and Music

by Lewis Porter. University of Michigan Press, 1998.

The John Coltrane Companion: Five Decades of Commentary

edited by Carl Woideck. Schirmer Books, 1998.

Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide: For and Against

by Gerald Dworkin, R. G. Frey, and Sissela Bok. Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Physician-Assisted Suicide: Expanding the Debate

edited by Margaret P. Battin, Rosamond Rhodes, and Anita Silvers. Routledge, 1998.

 MicroReviews

Reviewed:

Entire Dilemma

by Michael Burkard. Sarabande Books, 1998.

The Visible Man

by Henri Cole. Knopf, 1998.

Bandanna

by Paul Muldoon. Faber & Faber, 1999.

Fire & Flower

by Laura Kasischke. Alice James Books, 1998.

Stealing Glimpses: Of Poetry, Poets, and Things In Between

by Molly McQuade. Sarabande Books, 1999.

The Snow Watcher

by Chase Twichell. Ontario Review Press, 1998.

with each clouded peak

by Friederike Mayröcker, trans. Rosemarie Waldrop and Harriett Watts. Sun & Moon Press, 1998.

Wingtips

by Avery Chenoweth. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999.

Freedom Song

by Amit Chaudhuri. Knopf, 1999.

The Daiquiri Girls

by Toni Graham. University of Massachusetts Press, 1998.

Threads of Time

by Peter Brook. Counterpoint, 1999.