The ocean, the bird, and the scholar: how the arts help us to live
Fin-de-Siè̀̀cle lyric: W.B. Yeats and Jorie Graham
The unweary blues: the collected poems of Langston Hughes
The nothing that is: Chickamauga, by Charles Wright
American X-rays: forty years of Allen Ginsberg's poetry
The waste land: fragments and montage
The snow poems and garbage: episodes in A.R. Ammons's poetics
All her nomads: collected poems, by Amy Clampitt
Seamus Heaney and the Oresteia: "Mycenae Lookout" and the usefulness of tradition
Melville: the lyric of history
Lowell's persistence: the forms depression makes
Wallace Stevens: hypotheses and contradictions, dedicated to Paul Alpers
Ardor and artifice: Merrill's Mozartian touch
The titles: A.R. Ammons, 1926-2001
Poetry and the mediation of value: Whitman on Lincoln
"Long pig": the interconnection of the exotic, the dead, and the fantastic in the poetry of Elizabeth Bishop
Stevens and Keats's "To Autumn": reworking the past
"The circulation of small largenesses": Mark Ford and John Ashberry
Wallace Stevens: memory, dead and alive
Jorie Graham: the moment of excess
Attention, shoppers: Where shall I wander, by John Ashbery
Seamus Heaney's "Sweeney Redivivus": its plot and its poems
The democratic eye: A Worldly Country, by John Ashbery
Losing the marbles: James Merrill on Greece
Mark Ford: intriguing, funny, prophetic
Notes from the trepidarium: Stay, Illusion, by Lucie Brock-Broido
Pried open for all the world to see: Berryman the poet.
