Nonfiction
July/Aug 2020
Mark Strand
At the time of his death at the age of eighty on November 29, 2014, Mark Strand had left an indelible stamp on American letters. He had served as United […]
Nonfiction
July/Aug 2019
Richard Wilbur
At the time of his death on October 14, 2017, ninety-six-year-old Richard Wilbur might well have been what the more conservative elements of the contemporary literary scene would term a […]
Nonfiction
July/Aug 2015
Language and Memory
Human Chain. By Seamus Heaney. Farrar, Straus and Ciroux, 2010. 85 pp. $24.00. White Egrets. By Derek Walcott. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010. 86 pp. $24.00. 1 In his autobiography […]
Poetry
Spring 2004
Kentucky Gunsmith: Long Rifle, 1833
Blacksmith, mechanic, wood-sculptor, jeweler. He begins in the forge, wrapping a pressed bar Of wrought iron braced on a swage block With ringing triple skelps of his hammer Around […]
Poetry
Spring 2004
Berserker
Acrid fumes of charred brimstone Assail the thronging San Luis cazadores As they clamber up timbers bracing The Alamo’s shell-eroded north wall. Colonel Amat’s sappers attack with pick And crowbar […]