Poetry
Spring 1989
The Death and Life of Jesse James
I Before the ink on the poster in the bank dried, my horse went phobic over a slave-made clay brick that fell from the sky, dislodged from the edge of […]
Poetry
Spring 1989
Flamingo, Frog, and Aunt
I’m so afraid of confessional stuff, how it rises uninvited and slips off like smoke, that I never wrote you back after you saw Zeke on the porch of his […]
Poetry
Spring 1989
The New Bicycles
That Christmas, we were late getting away because an exotic fruit that tasted like a pear and felt like a football came special delivery, pick-up at the Depot, from Baja. […]
Book Reviews
Autumn 1985
Some Versions of Ireland: The Poetry of Tom Paulin and Paul Muldoon
We in this country had a bad time through the centuries when England did not like us. But words choke in the pen when one comes to describe what happened […]
Book Reviews
Summer 1984
Gaiety, Magic, and War: Ariel and Prospero among Three American Poets
Teach Me, Dear Sister by Irving Feldman. New York: Viking / Penguin, 1983. 80 pages. $7.95, soft cover. The Other Side of the River by Charles Wright. New York: Random […]