Forum: Crime and Punishment

The Legacies of Collective Violence

Helena Cobban

Policing Disorder

Bernard E. Harcourt

Deadly Symbiosis

Loïc Wacquant


Grand Cascade

Clayton Eshleman

Uncanny Earth, A Funny Thing to Feel

Joshua Green

“not (as though, at last”

Nicholas Laughlin

“what first unfurled”

Nicholas Laughlin

13th Street Is Not Called 13th Street. It’s Called Baughman.

Edward Mycue

Poltergeist House Eclogue

John Kinsella

High Art in the Age of Oprah

James Campbell

Howard Norman

Drake Bennett

Reviewed:

The Northern Lights

by Howard Norman. Picador, 2001.

The Bird Artist

by Howard Norman. Picador, 1995.

The Museum Guard

by Howard Norman. Picador, 1998.

The Haunting of L

by Howard Norman. Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 2002.

Poet’s Sampler

James Galvin introduces Emily Wilson

Where Every Eye’s a Guard

Stephen Burt

The Fit

Rae Armantrout

Seconds

Rae Armantrout

In Sky

Susan Wheeler

A Beautiful Illusion

Alan A. Stone

Pillow Talk

Carmen Gimenez-Rosello

The Walk

Carmen Gimenez-Rosello

One Last Thing

Ryan G. Van Cleave

house/boat

Julie Carr

Poetry

Reviewed:

The Little Field of Self

by Doreen Gildroy. University of Chicago Press, 2002.

Vocoder

by Judith Goldman. Roof Books, 2001.

Translating Mo’um

by Cathy Park Hong. Hanging Loose Press, 2002.

Tremolo

by Spencer Short. HarperCollins, 2001.

Live Feed

by Tom Thompson. Alice James Books, 2001.

By Reason of Breakings

by Andrew Zawacki. University of Georgia Press, 2002.

Transfigurations: Collected Poems

by Jay Wright. Louisiana State University Press, 2000.

Selected Poems

by Ciaran Carson. Wake Forest University Press, 2001.

Poems 1968-1998

by Paul Muldoon. Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 2002.

Collected Poems 1952-2000

by Richard Murphy. Wake Forest University Press, 2001.

Prose

Reviewed:

The Death Penalty: An American History

by Stuart Banner. Harvard University Press, 2002.

Legal Lynching: The Death Penalty and America’s Future

by Jesse L. Jackson Sr., Jesse L. Jackson Jr., and Bruce Shapiro. New Press, 2001.

Who Owns Death? Capital Punishment, the American Conscience, and the End of Executions

by Robert J. Lifton and Greg Mitchell. William Morrow & Co., 2000.

The Wrong Man: A True Story of Innocence on Death Row

by Michael Mello. University of Minnesota Press, 2001.

An Eye for an Eye: The Immorality of Punishing by Death

by Stephen Nathanson. Rowman and Littlefield, 2001.

Within These Walls: Memoirs of a Death House Chaplain

by Carroll Pickett. St. Martin’s Press, 2002.

When the State Kills: Capital Punishment and the American Condition

by Austin Sarat. Princeton University Press, 2002.

Actual Innocence: Five Days to Execution and Other Dispatches from the Wrongly Convicted

by Barry Scheck, Peter Neufield, and Jim Dwyer. Doubleday, 2000.

The Last Face You’ll Ever See: The Private Life of the American Death Penalty

by Ivan Solotaroff. HarperCollins, 2001.

MicroReviews

Reviewed:

Book of My Nights

by Li-young Lee. Boa Editions, 2001.

Humanophone

by Janet Holmes. University of Notre Dame Press, 2001.

Cue Lazarus

by Carl Marcum. University of Arizona Press, 2001.

Astronaut

by Brian Henry. Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2002.

The Route as Briefed

by James Tate. University of Michigan Press, 1999.

Artificial Heart

by Peter Gizzi. Burning Deck, 1998.

The Chime

by Cort Day. Alice James Books, 2001.

Citizen of the World

by Thomas Kinsella. Dedalus Press/Dufour Editions, 2000.

Littlebody

by Thomas Kinsella. Dedalus Press/Dufour Editions, 2000.

Nude Memoir

by Laura Moriarty. Krupskaya Press, 2000.

Ravishing DisUnities: Real Ghazals in English

edited by Agha Shahid Ali. Wesleyan University Press, 2000.

Rooms Are Never Finished

by Agha Shahid Ali. W. W. Norton, 2001.

Lawrence Booth’s Book of Visions

by Maurice Manning. Yale University Press, 2001.

The Keep

by Emily Wilson. University of Iowa Press, 2001.

Conference

by Stacy Doris. poets & poets press, 2000.

Rehearsal in Black

by Paul Hoover. Salt Publishing, 2001.

The Printer’s Error

by Aaron Fogel. Miami University Press, 2001.