Forum: Making Media Democratic
Ralph W. McChesney
With responses from Ralph Nader, Lawrence K. Grossman, C. Edwin Baker, Doug Schuler, Stephen Ansolabehere, and Andrew L. Shapiro. McChesney replies.
A Photograph of a Crowd
Wislawa Seymborska
Poet’s Sampler: Benjamin Friedlander
Robert Creeley introduces Benjamin Friedlander
Forum: Poetry Betrayed?
Marjorie Perloff, Mark Doty, Thylias Moss, David mura, J. D. McClatchy, Kevin Young, Donald Revell, Reginald Shepherd, Suzanne Gardiner, Rita Dove, Ann Lauterbach, Carol Muske, and Sven Birkets.
“The Report of My Death Is an Exaggeration”
Alfred Corn
Helen
Anne Carson
Victory Must Be a Supremely Glorious Experience Said a Woman to the Duke of Wellington
Anne Carson
Homage to My Waitress
Matthew Rohrer
Paper Sacrifice
Karen Drayne
The Toad and the Butterfly
Alan A. Stone
by bicycle
Matthea Harvey
Very, Very, Red
Diane Williams
Strip
Marianne Taylor
The Pilot
Wade S. Echer
How the Mind Really Works
Steven Pinker
Berwick and Ahouse reply.
The Problem with Thinking Locally
Jay R. Mandle
Reviewed:
The Case Against the Global Economy: and for a Turn Toward the Local
edited by Jerry Mander and Edward Goldsmith. Sierra Club Books, 1997.
Isla Mujeres
Mark Bibbins
Poetry
Reviewed:
Poems: New and Collected, 1957-1997
by Wislawa Szymborska, trans. Stanislaw Baránczak and Clare Cavanagh. Harcourt Brace, 1998.
The Selected Letters of Marianne Moore
edited by Bonnie Costello. Knopf, 1997.
Smokes
by Susan Wheeler. Four Way Books, 1998.
Prose
Reviewed:
The Everlasting Story of Nory
by Nicholson Baker. Random House, 1998.
Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude “Ma” Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday
by Angela Davis. Pantheon, 1998.
MicroReviews
Reviewed:
The Culture of Spontaneity: Improvisation and the Arts in Postwar America
by Daniel Belgrad. University of Chicago Press, 1998.
On Television
by Pierre Bourdieu, trans. Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson. New Press, 1998.
The Last of the Savages
by Jay McInerney. Vintage, 1997.
Winter Money
by Andy Plattner. University of Georgia Press, 1997.
Graphic Design in the Mechanical Age: Selections from the Merrill C. Berman Collection
by Deborah Rothschild, Ellen Lupton, and Dara Goldstein. Yale University Press, 1998.
Herb’s Pajamas
by Abigail Thomas. Algonquin, 1998.
China’s Avant-Garde Fiction: An Anthology
edited by Jing Wang, trans. Evan Shan Chou, Victor Mair, et al. Duke University Press, 1998.
The Secularist
by Claudia Keelan. University of Georgia Press, 1997.
Falling Water
by John Koethe. Harper Collins, 1998.
Inventory: New and Selected Poems
by Frank Lima, edited by David Shapiro. Hard Press, 1997.
Frank O’Hara: Poet Among Painters
by Marjorie Perloff. University of Chicago Press, 1997.
From the Devotions
by Carl Phillips. Graywolf Press, 1998.
The Falling Hour
by David Wojahn. University of Pittsburgh Press, 1997.
The Catbird’s Song: Prose Pieces 1963-1995
by Richard Wilbur. Harcourt Brace, 1997.
