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Desire’s Nemesis

Seven new poetry collections. 

  • Calvin Bedient
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Poetry in Motion

Some Values of Landscape and Weather by Peter Gizzi.

  • Andrew Zawacki
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The Little War Begins

Trouble in Mind by Lucie Brock-Broido.

  • Larissa Szporluk
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Microreviews: Summer 2004

Five new collections.

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The End of Remorse?

The Passion of the Christ, directed by Mel Gibson. 

  • Alan A. Stone
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Yellow Balloon Rising

  • Edward Bartók-Barata

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an animal meant

  • Carol Ciavonne
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Poem in the Manner of Friedrich Hölderlin

  • David Lehman
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Poem in the Manner of Wallace Stevens as Rewritten by Gertrude Stein

  • David Lehman
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Dislocations: Seven Scenarios

  • Adrienne Rich
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how music is supposed to be

  • Carol Ciavonne
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Immediately Thinking

  • Steve Willard
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Poet’s Sampler: Gregg Biglieri

Introduced by Craig Dworkin

  • Gregg Biglieri
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The Tanker Never Moves

  • Terese Svoboda

Letters

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Reason and Terror

Has 9/11 made it hard to think straight?

  • Diego Gambetta
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Dead End

Is there a future for secular Palestinian nationalism?

  • Helena Cobban
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What We Owe to Parents

The goal should not be to render child-rearing costless. The goal should be to lighten the burden.

  • Anne L. Alstott
with responses from
  • Robin West
  • Amy L. Wax
  • Eva Kittay
  • Dorothy Roberts
  • Deborah Stone
  • Richard A. Epstein

What We Owe to Parents

How public policy can support the hard work of raising children
 

  • Anne L. Alstott
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The People’s Poetry

National Poetry Month, without lament.

  • Hank Lazer
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Pound Ascendant

New collections of Ezra Pound’s poetry. 

  • Marjorie Perloff
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The Fugitive

The Violence Within/The Violence Without: Wallace Stevens and the Emergence of a Revolutionary Poetics.

  • John Hulsey
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Radical Pastoral

Review: Selected and New Poems from John Kinsella.

  • Emily Apter
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Last Battle

Burn!, directed by Gillo Pontecorvo.

  • Alan A. Stone
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