Poetry
Nov/Dec 2015
Sodoma, Monks at Table with St. Benedict (Monte Oliveto Maggiore)
Wrapped in the hush of their holy garments, they contemplate their portions of little fish, two apiece, nearly slim as minnows & umber as their smooth faces that are girlish […]
Book Reviews
Winter 1992
Freaked out: Camille Paglia’s Sexual Personae
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson by Camille Paglia. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990. 718 pages. $35.00. “A woman of ‘Heroick mind,’ she intimidates by […]
Nonfiction
Summer 1991
“But Oh! That Deep Romantic Chasm”: The Engendering of Periodization
What is a literary period? The more one broods on this old familiar concept, the odder it seems. The very word “period”—derived from the Greek peri (round) plus hodos (a […]
Nonfiction
Summer 1983
The Second Coming of Aphrodite: Kate Chopin’s Fantasy of Desire
The radiant ancient Venus, the Aphrodite born from the white foam of the sea, has not traversed the horrifying darkness of the Middle Ages with impunity. . . . She […]