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Grand Failure

Hart Crane's Poems and Letters.

  • Calvin Bedient
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A Measure of Splendor

The poetry of Taha Muhammad Ali. 

  • Victoria Chang
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Microreview: Anna Moschovakis, I Have Not Been Able to Get Through to Everyone

A remarkable first collection.

  • Nicholas Bredie
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Microreview: David Hernandez, Always Danger

Poems that offer a guided tour of the dangers lurking around every corner.

  • Matthew Thorburn
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Microreview: Mark Strand, Man and Camel

Poems that play with the high absurd.

  • Charlie Clark
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Microreview: Kathy Graber, Correspondence

Poems that move from Heroditus to plastic snap beads, from Kafka to empty storage containers.

  • Tess Taylor

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Arts in Society Science

Microreview: Louise Glück, Averno

Poems that challenge the supposed certainty of myths.

  • Zack Finch
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With Delicate Hand

  • Nick Twemlow
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View of the City

  • Carrie Bennett
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At the Curved Bridge

  • Carrie Bennett
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A Long Romance

  • Allen Grossman
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Plunder

  • Michael Robins
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The Last Colony

  • Susan Stewart
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Poem composed of statements made by George W. Bush in January 2003

  • H.L. Hix
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The Nature of Encounters

  • Geoffrey G. O’Brien
Class & Inequality

Inequality Matters

Why globalization doesn’t lift all boats.

  • Nancy Birdsall
Class & Inequality Philosophy

Inside the Machine

Toward a new development economics.

  • Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee
Class & Inequality Science

Delivering Health Care

A case study on Cambodia

  • Michael Kremer
  • David Clingingsmith
Class & Inequality

The Problem of Corruption

Corruption acts like a tax, adding to the cost of providing public services and conducting business.

  • Benjamin A. Olken
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Guantánamo

  • Jorie Graham
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Metonymic Sonnet

  • Michele Glazer
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The Gift

  • James Longenbach
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Hydrosaurus

  • Rebecca Reynolds
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Streakiness

  • John Ashbery
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