Book Reviews
Summer 2002
A Way to Frame the Truth
The Tether by Carl Phillips. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2001. 83 pages. $22.00, cloth. In “Recumbent,” a central poem in Carl Phillips’s fifth collection, The Tether, the […]
Book Reviews
Summer 2000
The Substance of the Island: W. S. Merwin’s Lyrical Epic
The Folding Cliffs: A Narrative by W. S. Merwin. New York: Knopf, 1998. 331 pages. $25.00. From the very beginning of his career, W. S. Merwin has been one of […]