Forum: Equity with Employment
Robert H. Haveman
With responses from Robert M. Solow, Fritz W. Scharpf, Rebecca M. Blank, Annie Graf & Jonathan Lange, and Benjamin I. Page. Haveman replies.
Poet’s Sampler
Marie Ponsot introduces Emily Fragos
Innocence
Alan A. Stone
Goshen Gap
Katherine Soniat
THE RIGHT TO DIE
A Right to Choose Death?
F. M. Kamm
Beyond the Call of Duty
Vivian Rothstein
Epistle of the Shipwreck
María Baranda
The Master’s Hand
W. D. Wetherell
Holiday Bunting
David Baker
Forum: Lessons from a Hoax
With responses from Charles Simic; Hosea Hirata; Arthur Vogelsang; John Bradley; Juliana Chang, Walter K. Lew, Tan Lin, Eileen Tabios, and John Yau; Greg Glazner and Jon Davis; Stephen Owen; and Eliot Weinberger. Marjorie Perloff replies.
Barn Doorway in July
John Peck
Poetry Reviews
Reviewed:
The Vigil
by C. K. Williams. Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1997.
Letters of Wallace Stevens
collected and edited by Holly Stevens. University of California Press, 1996.
Forbidden Entries
by John Yau. Black Sparrow Press, 1996.
Prose Reviews
Reviewed:
The Spears of Twilight: Life and Death in the Amazon Jungle
by Philippe Descola, translated by Janet Lloyd. New Press, 1996.
The Speed Queen
by Stewart O’Nan. Doubleday, 1997.
Women of the Far Right: The Mothers’ Movement and World War II
by Glen Jeansonne. University of Chicago Press, 1997.
Zara
by Meredith Steinbach. TriQuarterly Books, 1996.
The Birth of the World As We Know It; or, Teiresias
by Meredith Steinbach. TriQuarterly Books, 1996.
Thunderstruck
Allen Grossman
MicroReviews
Reviewed:
Mecox Road
by Marc Cohen. Groundwater Press, 1997.
Evenings and Avenues
by Stuart Dischell. Penguin, 1996.
In the Belly
by David Gewanter. University of Chicago Press, 1997.
Sun Under Wood
by Robert Hass. Ecco Press, 1996.
We Have Gone to the Beach
by Cynthia Huntington. Alice James Books, 1996.
Laments
by Jan Kochanowski, translated by Stanislaw Baranczak and Seamus Heaney. Noonday Press, 1996.
Through One Tear
by Edward Nobles. Persea Books, 1997.
The Willow Grove
by Laurie Sheck. Knopf, 1996.
Walking the Black Cat
by Charles Simic. Harcourt Brace, 1996.
707 Scott Street
by John Wieners. Sun & Moon Press, 1996.
Bloodhounds
by Peter Lovesey. Mysterious Press, 1997.
Tumble Home
by Amy Hempel. Scribner, 1997.
Wall Street
by Doug Henwood. Verso, 1997.
The Complete Fiction of W. M. Spackman
Dalkey Archive Press, 1997.
Bear and His Daughter: Stories
by Robert Stone. Houghton Mifflin, 1997.
Notes on the Cinematographer
by Robert Bresson. Green Integer, 1997.
History or Messages From History
by Gertude Stein. Green Integer, 1997.
Within the Context of No Context
by George W. S. Trow. Atlantic Monthly Press, 1997.
