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