April 2009

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Volume 97, No. 2
April 2009
The Yale Review

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F E A T U R E S

“What Took You So Long?”
Leslie Brisman

About Borromini
Intaglio Prints and Linocuts by Deborah Rosenthal
Texts by Jed Perl

Poetry Without a Capital P
Auden’s “American” Style
Arthur Kirsch

Some Overlooked Operatic History
The Business of Opera in Twentieth-Century America
George Martin

F I C T I O N

Transplant
Russell Banks

Conversation
Kate Walbert

Pre-emption
Jonathan Levi

P O E T R Y

Geisblatt
A Curious Cologne
Brigit Pegeen Kelly

Stray
Wyatt Prunty

Kit for Civilization
Honeymoon
Peter
Dana Goodyear

Ashore
Ernest Hilbert

The Second
Tessa Kale

Herbal
Jordan Smith

Envy
Valerie Wohlfeld

Ending with a Line by Curtis Mayfield
Mark Jarman

The Heroic
Brian Swann

Zion
Esther Schor

E
Joan Swift

Ostrakoi
Robert Bagg

R E V I E W S

Mark of the Beast
Letters of Greene and Hughes
Jeffrey Meyers

Fiction in Review
Merit and Mystery: Marilynne Robinson
Siobhan Phillips

Poetry in Review
Richard Kenney
Daniel Hall

Recordings in Review
LIve Opera Performances
Vincent Giroud

Table of Contents

Poetry

Geisblatt

Brigit Pegeen Kelly
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