From Summer 2008 Explore This Issue The Color of Darkness By Alexandre Mas From the Summer 2008 Issue ← “Even Sincerity”: On the Viability of the Self in Contemporary Poetry (on One Kind of Everything: Poem and Person in Contemporary America by Dan Chiasson; Dark Horses: Poets on Overlooked Poems by Joy Katz and Kevin Prufer; and American Poets in the 21st Century: The New Poetics by Claudia Rankine and Lisa Sewell) → Light Pink Octagon