Criticism

Review: My Way

Speeches and Poems by Charles Bernstein.

Geoff Ward

Review: Try

By Cole Swensen.

Gillian Conoley

Microreviews: October/November 1999

Eight new poetry collections.

A New Hope

Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace.

Alan A. Stone

A Groove of History

On Ralph Ellison’s Juneteenth.

Scott Saul

Irish Poetics

Review: McGuckian and Carson.

Thomas O’Grady

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Review: Jackstraws

By Charles Simic.

Brian Henry

Review: The End of the Alphabet

By Claudia Rankine.

Calvin Bedient

Microreviews: Summer 1999

Seven new poetry publications.

Lives of Women

The Autumn Tale, directed by Eric Rohmer.

Alan A. Stone

Giant Steps

A review of two books on Coltrane.

Scott Saul

Review: Hay

By Paul Muldoon.

Stephanie Burt

Review: Thieves of Paradise

By Yusef Komunyakaa.

Kevin Young

Review: Green Sees Things in Waves

By August Kleinzahler.

Will Broaddus

Review: Poetry On and Off the Page

By Marjorie Perloff.

Michael Davidson

Escape from Auschwitz

Life Is Beautiful, directed by Roberto Benigni.

Alan A. Stone

Review: Shakespeare

By Harold Bloom.

Robert Atwan

Review: Penthesilea

By Heinrich von Kleist.

Steve Dowden

Review: Oulipo Compendium

Edited by Harry Mathews and Alastair Brotchie.

James Sallis

Review: Gander and Revell

These two exceptional new books by two of our finest contemporary poets both articulate loss and renewal.

Tod Marshall

Review: The Triumph of Love

By Geoffrey Hill.

Andrew Zawacki

Review: The Art of Shakespeare’s Sonnets

By Helen Vendler.

Matthea Harvey

Microreviews: February/March 1999

Eight new poetry collections.

Oprah’s Nightmare

Beloved. directed by Johnathan Demme.

Alan A. Stone

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