Spring 2003
New Series · Volume XXV Number 2

contents

new voices

• David Baker • (Commentary) On Christopher Cessac’s Republic Sublime, winner of the 2002 Kenyon Review Prize in Poetry
• Christopher Cessac • Excerpts from Republic Sublime

   

nonfiction

• Henry Alley • The Well-Made World of the O. Henrys, 1961-2000

Fiction

• Karen Palmer • Virtuoso Mio (2005 Pushcart Fiction Prize)
• Ron Rash • Speckle Trout (2005 O. Henry Prize)
• Roger Rosenblatt • My Bear
• Patricia Vigderman • Rumi and the Fish
• Mitch Wieland • Swan’s Song
• Anthony Winner • Three Figures Out of Schools

Poetry

• Theresa Daniels • That the End Could Be Beginning
• Thomas Glave • Interview with the Not-Poem
• Susan Hahn • Pity the Self—Middle-Aged
• Bob Hicok • Elsewhere; To Err Is Humid; Red Licorice
• Mark Jarman • A Pair of Tanagers
• Mary Karr • This Lesson You’ve Got; Preparatory Science Fair
• Vénus Khoury-Ghata, translated by Marilyn Hacker • from She Says: Three Untitled Poems
• David Kirby • Borges at the Northside Rotary
• Laurence Lieberman • Crush into These Blakk Feet
• Joshua McKinney • In Earnest
• Kevin Prufer • Questions for the Drowned at Sea
• Wyatt Prunty • Ash: 9/11
• Maurya Simon • The Spiral Pilgrimage
• Charlie Smith • I Mean Everything I Say
• Natasha Trethewey • Miscegenation
• Michael Waters • Miserere; Wedding Dress; Erotic Roman Antiquities
• Robert Wrigley • Mummy of a Mouse; Agency

Reviews

• Geoffrey Galt Harpham • From Revolution to Canon
  

  The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism, edited by Vincent Leitch, William E. Cain, Laurie A. Finke, Barbara E. Johnson, John McGowan, and Jeffrey J. Williams
  

• Willard Spiegelman • Repetition and Singularity
  

  The Seven Ages by Louise Glück; Never by Jorie Graham
  

• Myles Weber • The Goldilocks Formula

  The Playwright’s Guidebook by Stuart Spencer