F E A T U R E S
Is American Poetry American?
Randall Jarrell
Introductory Note by Stephen Burt
Pensione Eolo, Sites of Nostalgia
André Aciman
Mae West
James McCourt
An Imaginary Theater
Kenneth Gross
First Boy
Dorothea Straus
Saving Art
Some Early American Rescuers
Richard T. Arndt
F I C T I O N
Accidents
Peter Cameron
Wool
Richard Stern
P O E T R Y
No Palms
Dorothea Tanning
Harmonie Du Soir
Paradise Cove
Stephen Yenser
The Birds of the Holy Land
The New World
Daniel Hall
Matron
Gwen Head
Benton’s Clouds
David Baker
Birds of Prayer
Mark Bibbins
Lao Tzu Rebuked
Barry Goldensohn
Greens
Jody Gladding
My Father at Prades
D. Nurkse
Little Sister
Elizabeth Macklin
The Jinn
Eric Ormsby
Bird: A Memoir
Susan Mitchell
R E V I E W S
Reading Montale
William Weaver
One of Those Uncommon Geniuses
Howard R. Lamar
Dancing Through Pain
Molly McQuade
Fiction In Review
The Cartoon Strip As Novel
John Crowley
Poetry In Review
Eavan Boland & W. S. Merwin
Michael Thurston
Recordings In Review
Edgard Varèse’s Music of the Future
Dewey Faulkner