SPECIAL SECTION: MEETING THE DEMAND
Every Last Drop
Frank R. Rijsberman, with a case study by Michael Kremer, Edward Miguel, Clair Null, and Alix Zwane
First Counter-clockwise Canto of the Moebius Strip
John Kinsella
Our Daily Bread
Rosamond Naylor and Walter Falcon
Presidential Crimes
Elaine Scarry
Acorn Duly Crushed
Heather Christie
When the President Is Black
Marlys West
The Party’s Over
Lew Daly
Reviewed:
Grand New Party: How Republicans Can Win the Working Class and Save the American Dream
by Ross Douthat and Reihan Salam. Doubleday, 2008.
History Matters
Joseph Levine
Elegy
Bruce Bond
Wordwatching
Gay James
Intimate Revenge
Roger Boylan
Hwan’s Condition
James Shea
The End of Sexual Identity
Stacey D’Erasmo
Exit Ovidian
Dean Young
The Mosquito Monocracy
Adam O. Davis
And I Do Desire Your Looking Back
Annah Sobelman
Poets and the People
Robert von Hallberg
Out of Defeat
Colin Dayan
The Crucified Hand
Raymond McDaniel
Reviewed:
Watching the Spring Festival
by Frank Bidart. Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 2008.
Poet’s Sampler
Graham Foust introduces Ashley Capps
MicroReviews
Reviewed:
Door to a Noisy Room
by Peter Waldor. Alice James Books, 2008.
Feral
by Janet McAdams. Salt Publishing, 2007.
Tendril
by Bin Ramke. Omnidawn Publishing, 2007.
The Forms of Youth: 20th-Century Poetry and Adolescence
by Stephen Burt. Columbia University Press, 2007.
The Hot Garment of Love is Insecure
by Elizabeth Reddin. Ugly Ducking Presse, 2007.
Working Wonders
Alan A. Stone
It Never Goes Away
Sophie Cabot Black