Forum: How Can the Democrats Win?

Rick Perlstein

With responses from William A. Galston, Adolph Reed Jr., Ruy Teixeira, Dan Carol, Daniel Cantor, Robert B. Reich, Michael C. Dawson, Elaine Kamarck, Richard Delgado, Stanley Aronowitz, Philip Klinkner, and Larry M. Bartels. Perlstein replies.

Yellow Balloon Rising

Edward Bartók-Barata

Russia’s Quagmire

Rajan Menon

an animal meant

Carol Ciavonne

Body of the Nation

Martha C. Nussbaum

The Chameleon

Paul Hockenos

Poem in the Manner of Friedrich Hölderlin

David Lehman

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

David Lehman

Dislocations: Seven Scenarios

Adrienne Rich

Flight

Ishle Yi Park

how music is supposed to be

Carol Ciavonne

Photographing Cruelty

Susie Linfield

Reviewed:

Red-Color News Soldier

by Li Zhensheng. Phaidon, 2003.

Assignment Shanghai

by Jack Birns, ed. Carolyn Wakeman and Ken Light. University of California Press, 2003.

Immediately Thinking

Steve Willard

Reading China

Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom

Reviewed:

Wild Grass

by Ian Johnson. Pantheon, 2004.

China’s New Order

by Wang Hui, ed. Theodore Huters. Harvard University Press, 2003.

Nights in the Gardens of Brooklyn

Grace Paley

The Secret Lives of Men

James Hynes

Poet’s Sampler

Craig Dworkin introduces Gregg Biglieri

Desire’s Nemesis

Calvin Bedient

Reviewed:

Music and Suicide

by Jeff Clark. Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 2004.

Sad Little Breathing Machine

by Matthea Harvey. Graywolf Press, 2004.

Dwelling Song

by Sally Keith. University of Georgia Press, 2004.

Graft

by Brian Henry. New Issues, 2003.

Cocktails

by D. A. Powell. Graywolf Press, 2004.

Fathom

by Andrew Joron. Black Square Editions, 2003.

The Wind, Master Cherry, the Wind

by Larissa Szporluk. Alice James Press, 2003.

The Tanker Never Moves

Terese Svoboda

Poetry in Motion

Andrew Zawacki

Reviewed:

Some Values of Landscape and Weather

by Peter Gizzi. Wesleyan University Press, 2003.

The Little War Begins

Larissa Szporluk

Reviewed:

Trouble in Mind

by Lucie Brock-Broido. Knopf, 2004.

Poetry MicroReviews

Reviewed:

Selah

by Joshua Corey. Barrow Street Press, 2003.

The Fatalist

by Lyn Heijinian. Omnidawn Publishing, 2003.

Hand-held Executions: Poems & Essays

by Joan Houlihan. Del Sol Press, 2003.

Thieves’ Latin

by Peter Jay Shippy. University of Iowa Press, 2003.

Dancing on Main Street

by Lorenzo Thomas. Coffee House Press, 2004.

The End of Remorse?

Alan A. Stone