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Garland

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Sparrow

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Autobiography

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Neglect

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Attack Attack

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Poet’s Sampler: Stephen Sturgeon

Politics

State of the Nation: Tax and Spend

What do you most want congress to do to balance the budget? 

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Microreview: Paul Guest, Exit Interview

Poems that temper violence with Whitmanesque generosity.

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Microreview: Matthew Zapruder, The Pajamaist

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Unfinished Story

On Holocaust by Charles Reznikoff.

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Microreview: Paisley Rekdal, The Invention of the Kaleidoscope

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Microreview: Liam Rector, The Executive Director of the Fallen World

The last collection before the poet's suicide. 

Class & Inequality Race

Ending Urban Poverty: Introduction

What if we stop thinking in terms of place and start thinking about families or individuals?

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Ending Urban Poverty: The Inherited Ghetto

Understanding the persistence of racial inequality

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Ending Urban Poverty: Neighborhood Matters

Do housing vouchers work?

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All That Is Given

Hannah Arendt on being Jewish.

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Mugger and Mouse Get Married

A story story. 

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Out of Exile

Notes on Georgi Gospodinov and Bulgarian literature.

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A Fiendish Mood

The mid-century novels of "the other Elizabeth Taylor"

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Modern Hell

Sidney Lumets's Before the Devil Knows You're Dead.

Law Politics

Al Qaeda in Lebanon

The Iraq War spreads.

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Small Packages

Emblems of Desire: Selections from the Délie of Maurice Scève.

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Neither Settled Nor Easy

One Big Self: An Investigation by C.D. Wright.

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To Reap the Field

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