Book Reviews
Winter 1990
Reinventing the Comic Sublime
Before It Vanishes: A Packet for Professor Pagels by Robert Pack. Boston: David R. Godine, 1989. 85 pages. $15.95. This is Robert Pack’s tenth book of poems and, intent […]
Poetry
Autumn 1989
Photograph of Oldest Son, Postulant in the Society of Mary, Taken with Proud Parents at Beacon, New York
Two men, one forty, the other seventeen, both standing stiffly in their Sears & Roebuck suits in the deckled black & white snapshot, April 1957. Between them the woman, aged […]
Poetry
Autumn 1989
Road Kills
In that instant the massed shadow crumples the hood of the Taurus, the doe’s eye blazing in the stunned brilliance of the blown-out headlamp, and my right side plunges into […]
Book Reviews
Autumn 1989
Keeping the Covenant
A Walk with Tom Jefferson by Philip Levine. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. 64 pages. $16.95. A Walk with Tom Jefferson is an exceptional book by an exceptional poet. […]
Nonfiction
Summer 1988
‘My Heavy Daughter’: John Berryman and the Making of “The Dream Songs”
“I am almost utterly dissatisfied w[ith] my life,” John Berryman wrote on February 10, 1962. “Kate [his wife of five months] I think is happy, & I am, in her […]