Summer 2003

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Summer 2003

Table of Contents

Essays

Mrs. Twomey

The Arrogance of Poetry

The Work of Lyric: Night and Day

Where Feeling Dwells: On Reading Marianne Moore

Fiction

Il Cortigiano of Thomas Avenue

Newsworld

Three Funerals

Poetry

A Cowardice of Husbands

Abundance

Caduceus

Can’t You Hear the Wind Howl?; The Persimmon Bough; & Paradise

Eight Essays on Linguistic Disobedience

Exhaustion

Five Untitled Poems

Ghost Weather

Melville

Naming

Plowman

The Pyramids of Malpighi

The Sweater

This is for the silver of highway

Three or Four Stories That Do or Don’t Touch

W. H. Auden, Leaving Lubbock, Texas, Writes a Sonnet

Words Taken to Heart: Four Answers to One Question

Art

Prairie Air

Reviews

In Trouble (on The Finger Bone by Kevin Prufer; Trouble Lights by William Olsen; Dumb Luck by Sam Hamill; Beyond the Reach by Deborah Cummins; and Still Life with Waterfall by Eamon Grennan)

on Cogito, Ergo Sum: The Life of René Descartes by Richard Watson

Poets on Poets and Poetry (on Poetry as Survival by Gregory Orr; God and the Imagination: On Poets, Poetry, and the Ineffable by Paul Mariani; The Demon and the Angel: Searching for the Source of Artistic Inspiration by Edward Hirsch; Desperate Measures by William Logan; and The Instant of Knowing: Lectures, Criticism, and Occasional Prose by Josephine Jacobsen and Elizabeth Spires)

Shapes of American Lives (on Phantom Limb by Janet Sternburg; City: An Essay by Brian Lennon; No Such Country: Essays toward Home by Elmar Lueth; and A Memoir of No One in Particular by Daniel Harris)

Interview

A Sacred Vision: An Interview with Czesław Miłosz