Forum: What We Owe to Parents

Anne Alstott

With responses from Robin West, Amy L. Wax, Eva Kittay, Dorothy Roberts, Deborah Stone, and Richard A. Esptein. Alstott replies.

Looking South to the River (II)

Li Hou Zhu

Nearing Sleep

Darryl Lorenzo Wellington

Transcendentalism

Reuben Silberman

End of the Wild

Stephen M. Meyer

Nightspot

Daniel Tiffany

Saving Social Security

Peter A. Diamond and Peter R. Orszag

Dead End

Helena Cobban

Reason and Terror

Diego Gambetta

The Peculiar Gnosis of Trains

Elizabeth Scanlon

Joining the Dark

Darryl Lorenzo Wellington

Big 32

Ander Monson

Prime Time

Jascha Hoffman

Reviewed:

Prime Obsession

by John Derbyshire. Joseph Henry Press, 2003.

The Riemann Hypothesis

by Karl Sabbagh. Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 2002.

The Music of the Primes

by Marcus du Sautoy. HarperCollins, 2003.

Breaking Up

Rachel Cline

Cubicle Gothic

James Hynes

Poet’s Sampler

David St. John introduces Toni Burge

The People’s Poetry

Hank Lazer

Pound Ascendant

Marjorie Perloff

Reviewed:

Ezra Pound, Poems and Translations

ed. Richard Sieburth. Library of America, 2003.

Ezra Pound, The Pisan Cantos

ed. Richard Sieburth. New Directions, 2003.

The Fugitive

John Hulsey

Reviewed:

The Violence Within/The Violence Without: Wallace Stevens and the Emergence of a Revolutionary Poetics

by Jacqueline Brogan. University of Georgia Press, 2003.

Radical Pastoral

Emily Apter

Reviewed:

Peripheral Light

by John Kinsella. W. W. Norton & Co., 2003.

Poetry MicroReviews

Reviewed:

Crystallography

by Christian Bök. Coach House Books, 2003.

At Port Royal

by Christopher Edgar. Adventures in Poetry, 2003.

A Beaker: New and Selected Poems

by Caroline Knox. Verse Press, 2002.

See Through

by Frances Richard. Four Way Books, 2003.

He Paves the Road with Iron Bars

Caroline Knox

Last Battle

Alan A. Stone

Seasonal

Shannon Welch