The Rules

Eliot Spitzer

With Dean Baker, Sarah Binder, Andrew Gelman, John Sides, and Robert Johnson. Spitzer replies.

Letter to a City Under Siege

Carolyn Forché

Hills, South Truro, 1930

Ernest Farrés, trans. Lawrence Venuti

After Ecstasy

Stephen Dunn

Right By Others

Vivian Gornick

Scenes of Negotiation

Adrienne Rich

Africa Calling

Jenny C. Aker and Isaac M. Mbiti

Four poems from Thread

Michael Palmer

Remembering Haiti

Sidney W. Mintz

Dawning

Jorie Graham

Dead Dogs

Colin Dayan

Misunderstanding Darwin

Ned Block and Philip Kitcher

Life During Wartime

Major Jackson

Myth

Major Jackson

Wear a Red Hat, I Will Too

Christopher DeWeese

Past Forward

Paul Hockenos

Reviewed:

The Year that Changed The World

by Michael Meyer. Scribner, 2009.

The Romanian Revolution of December 1989

by Peter Siani-Davies. Cornell University Press, 2005.

Romania and the European Union: How the Weak Vanquished the Strong

by Tom Gallagher. Manchester University Press, 2009.

Steven Little Stories About Sex

Eric Freeze

Dying in the Development

D. A. Powell

Scenes from the Arguments

Stephen Dunn

Body of Work

Tess Taylor

Reviewed:

Selected Poems

by Thom Gunn, ed. August Kleinzahler. Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 2009.

At the Barriers: On the Poetry of Thom Gunn

ed. Joshua Weiner. University of Chicago Press, 2009.

Know-How

Troy Jollimore

Reviewed:

Incident Light

by H. L. Hix. Etruscan Press, 2009.

Restless

Katie Peterson

Reviewed:

Speak Low

by Carl Phillips. Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 2010.

Poet’s Sampler

A. Van Jordan introduces Rasheeda Plenty

Ax the al— to

Stacy Kidd

MicroReviews

Reviewed:

The All-Purpose Magical Tent

by Lytton Smith. Nightboat Books, 2009.

Star in the Eye

by James Shea. Fence Books, 2008.

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by Sophie Robinson. Les Figues Press, 2009.

Stupid Hope

by Jason Shinder. Graywolf Press, 2009.

Petals of Zero, Petals of One

by Andrew Zawacki. Talisman House, 2009.

Sins of the Father

Alan A. Stone

This Time in Wartime

CJ Evans

Banking

Cara Benson