Alfred Corn‘s most recent book of poems is Contradictions. This October, University of Michigan Press will publish Atlas: Selected Essays, 1989-2007.
Nonfiction
Winter 2009
Elizabeth Bishop, Critic
Elizabeth Bishop: Poems, Prose, and Letters. Edited by Robert Giroux and Lloyd Schwartz, New York: Library of America, 2008. 975 pp. $40.00 hardcover. In one volume, here we have […]
Nonfiction
Autumn 1994
Where We Stand: An Essay Review
In a recent interview the novelist Edmund White said that a turning point for him came when, as he was writing States of Desire, he stopped pitching the book to […]
Poetry
Spring 1994
To Hermes
Lord Quicksilver, god of erections, come down in your winged Nikes, and your hard-hat brilliant as an oiled mirror, and lend some assistance. I have a young partner, handsome and […]
Poetry
Spring 1994
Sugar Cane
Some view our sable race with scornful eye, “Their color is a diabolic dye.” Remember, Christians, Negroes, black as Cain, May be refined, and join the angelic train. PHILLIS WHEATLEY, […]
Poetry
Summer 1992
From 1992
1978 Coolness of late April in Berkeley, actually, Kensington, where I’ll stay two nights and give a reading down at the U. Prescription sunglasses are fending off steam-white morning sun […]
Fiction
Summer 1991
from Part of His Story
The postcards picked up at a stall near Westminster Bridge lie scattered on the desk, bright bits of blue, red, and black color glazed over by lamplight into partial invisibility. […]
Poetry
Winter 1979
At the Grave of Wallace Stevens
Cedar Hill Cemetery, 21 March, 1978 “We should die except for death.” And even then We do? The brightness of this early sun’s One light with that other day, five […]
Poetry
Winter 1979
Lacrimae Rerum
No closer than that; then some might prefer The middle distances, a touch farther Off from fact; if only to discover Perspectives where such a limited thing Multiplies into so […]