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Prose Archives

Books Reviewed

  • MAGGIE ANDERSON: Windfall: New and Selected Poems
  • THOMAS ASLIN: Salvage
  • JILL PÉLAEZ BAUMGAERTNER: Finding Cuba
  • DAVID BAKER: Changeable Weather
  • DAVID BAKER: Heresy and the Ideal: On Contemporary Poetry
  • JOHN BALABAN: Path, Crooked Path
  • NED BALBO: The Trials of Edgar Allan Poe and Other Poems
  • MELISSA BALMAIN: Walking in on People
  • MICHAEL BAZZETT: The Interrogation
  • LINDA BIERDS: First Hand
  • DEBORAH BOGEN: Landscape with Silos
  • PAULA BOHINCE: Incident at the Edge of Bayonet Woods
  • MARIANNE BORUCH: Grace, Fallen From
  • DAVID BOTTOMS: Armored Hearts: Selected and New Poems
  • DAVID BOTTOMS: Vagrant Grace
  • MARGUERITE BOUVARD: The Unpredictability of Light
  • JERRY BRADLEY: South of the Boredom
  • T. ALAN BROUGHTON: A World Remembered
  • JERICHO BROWN: Please
  • STEPHANIE BROWN: Domestic Interior
  • JULIE BRUCK: Monkey Ranch
  • CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY: Star Journal
  • LAUREN CAMP: One Hundred Hungers: Poems
  • JARED CARTER: After the Rain
  • JARED CARTER: Cross this Bridge at a Walk
  • JARED CARTER: Darkened Rooms of Summer
  • JARED CARTER: Les Barricades Mystérieuses: Thirty-Two Villanelles
  • JARED CARTER: Work, for the Night Is Coming
  • PATRICIA CLARK: The Canopy
  • PATRICIA CLARK: My Father on a Bicycle
  • MARTHA COLLINS: White Papers
  • MARK CONWAY: Any Holy City
  • ROBERT W. CRAWFORD: Too Much Explanation Can Ruin a Man
  • BARBARA CROOKER: Line Dance
  • BARBARA CROOKER: More
  • BARBARA CROOKER: Radiance
  • GEFFREY DAVIS: Night Angler
  • CARL DENNIS: Another Reason
  • CARL DENNIS: Night School
  • ALEX DIMITROV: Together and by Ourselves
  • SHARON DOLIN: Serious Pink
  • RITA DOVE: American Smooth
  • REBECCA DUNHAM: Cold Pastoral
  • LYNNELL EDWARDS: The Highwayman’s Wife
  • CLAUDIA EMERSON: Late Wife
  • EVE EWING: Electric Arches
  • B.H. FAIRCHILD: Local Knowledge
  • PATRICIA FARGNOLI: Necessary Light
  • PATRICIA FARGNOLI: Duties of the Spirit
  • PATRICIA FARGNOLI: Duties of the Spirit
  • PATRICIA FARGNOLI: Then, Something
  • BETH ANN FENNELLY: Open House
  • JIM FERRIS: The Hospital Poems
  • DIANE GILLIAM FISHER: Kettle Bottom
  • ANN FISHER-WIRTH: Blue Window
  • ANN FISHER-WIRTH: Dream Cabinet
  • ANN FISHER-WIRTH: Mississippi
  • KATHLEEN FLENNIKEN: Famous
  • RACHE CONTRENI FLYNN: Tongue
  • JEFF FRIEDMAN: Black Threads
  • JEFF FRIEDMAN: Taking Down the Angel
  • BRENDAN GALVIN: Ocean Effects
  • DAVID GRAHAM AND KATE SONTAG, EDS.: After Confession: Poetry as Autobiography
  • JORIE GRAHAM: Never
  • WILLIAM GREENWAY: Everywhere at Once
  • MARILYN HACKER: Names
  • H. PALMER HALL: Foreign and Domestic
  • H. PALMER HALL: Reflections on Writing, Publishing & Other Things
  • GWEN HART: Lost and Found
  • YONA HARVEY: Hemming the Water
  • BRENDA HILLMAN: Cascadia
  • JANET HOLMES: The Green Tuxedo
  • CATHY PARK HONG: Dance Dance Revolution
  • MARIE HOWE: Magdaline
  • TOM C. HUNLEY: Here Lies
  • KASEY JUEDS: Keeper
  • DONALD JUSTICE: Collected Poems
  • ADRIANNE KALFOPOULOU: Wild Greens
  • ILYA KAMINSKY: Dancing in Odessa
  • MARY KARR: Sinners Welcome
  • SARAH KENNEDY: The Gold Thread
  • ATHENA KILDEGAARD: Ventriloquy
  • TED KOOSER: Delights & Shadows
  • NORBERT KRAPF: Bloodroot: Indiana Poems
  • MARILYN KRYSL: Swear the Burning Vow: Selected and New Poems
  • LANCE LARSEN: In All Their Animal Brilliance
  • LI-YOUNG LEE: Behind My Eyes
  • BRAD LEITHAUSER: The Oldest Word for Dawn

  • LYNN LEVIN: Imaginarium
  • PHILIP LEVINE: The Mercy
  • LARRY LEVIS: Elegy
  • LARRY LEVIS: The Gazer Within
  • LARRY LEVIS: The Selected Levis
  • KATHRYN LEVY: Losing the Moon
  • LAURENCE LIEBERMAN: Flight from the Mother Stone
  • DIANE LOCKWARD: Eve’s Red Dress
  • DIANE LOCKWARD: The Uneaten Carrots of Atonement
  • DIANE LOCKWARD: What Feeds Us
  • RACHEL LODEN: Hotel Imperium
  • BOBBIE LURIE: Letter from the Lawn
  • JOANIE MACKOWSKI: View from a Temporary Window
  • MARY MAKOFSKE: Traction
  • CHARLOTTE MANDEL: Rock Vein Sky
  • SARAH MANGUSO: Siste Viator
  • DAVID MASON: Sea Salt
  • WILLIAM MATTHEWS: Search Party
  • CAMPBELL MCGRATH: Pax Atomica
  • IRENE MCKINNEY: Have You Had Enough Darkness Yet?
  • AMY MECKLER: What All the Sleeping Is For
  • JOSHUA MEHIGAN: Accepting the Disaster
  • JOSHUA MEHIGAN: The Optimist
  • PHILIP METRES: To See the Earth
  • JUDITH MONTGOMERY: Red Jess
  • JULIE L. MOORE: “Full Worm Moon”
  • KAY MULLEN: A Long Remembering: Return to Vietnam
  • CARY NELSON, ED.: The Wound and the Dream: Sixty Years of American Poems about the Spanish Civil War
  • SUSANNAH NEVISON: Lethal Theater
  • KATE NORTHROP: Things Are Disappearing Here
  • ANGELA ALAIMO O’DONNELL: Lovers’ Almanac
  • DAVID ORR: Beautiful and Pointless: A Guide to Modern Poetry
  • GREGORY ORR: The Blessing
  • GREGORY ORR: The Caged Owl: New and Selected Poems
  • GREGORY ORR: Poetry as Survival
  • ALICIA OSTRIKER: The Book of Seventy
  • MICHAEL PALMER: The Lion Bridge
  • CHRISTINE PERRIN: Bright Mirror
  • KEVIN PILKINGTON: In the Eyes of a Dog
  • MARIANNE POLOSKEY: Climbing the Shadows
  • LAURA VAN PROOYEN: Our House Was on Fire
  • SUSAN RICH: The Alchemist’s Kitchen
  • DON SCHOFIELD: Approximately Paradise
  • SHEROD SANTOS: The Perishing
  • SHEROD SANTOS: The Pilot Star Elegies
  • SHEROD SANTOS: A Poetry of Two Minds
  • MARGOT SCHILPP: The World’s Last Night
  • ELAINE SEXTON: Sleuth
  • VIVIAN SHIPLEY: Fair Haven
  • VIVIAN SHIPLEY: Hardboot: Poems New and Old
  • VIVIAN SHIPLEY: When There Is No Shore
  • MARTHA SILANO: The Little Offices of the Immaculate Conception
  • ANN SILSBEE: The Book of Ga
  • ANN SILSBEE: Orioling
  • A.E. STALLINGS: Olives
  • MELISSA STEIN: Terrible Blooms
  • ALISON STINE: Wait
  • MARK STRAND: The Weather of Words
  • MARILYN L. TAYLOR: Subject to Change
  • SUSAN TERRIS: Poetic License
  • LARRY D. THOMAS: A Murder of Crows
  • CATHERINE TUFARIELLO: Keeping My Name
  • BRIAN TURNER: Phantom Noise
  • PAMELA USCHUK: Wild in the Plaza of Memory
  • WENDY VIDELOCK: Nevertheless
  • JUDITH VOLLMER: The Water Books
  • G.C. WALDREP: feast gently
  • WILLIAM WALTZ: Adventures in the Lost Interiors of America
  • INGRID WENDT: Evensong
  • INGRID WENDT: Surgeonfish
  • MARK W. VAN WIENAN, ED: Rendezvous with Death: American Poems of the Great War
  • SUSAN SETTLEMYRE WILLIAMS: Ashes in Midair
  • ROSEMARY WINSLOW: Green Bodies
  • CHARLES WRIGHT: Littlefoot
  • CHARLES WRIGHT: Negative Blue: Selected Later Poems
  • CHARLES WRIGHT: Scar Tissue
  • CHARLES WRIGHT: Sestets
  • FRANZ WRIGHT: Wheeling Motel

Essays
  • DAVID BAKER: “Excerpt from ‘Introduction’ to Heresy and the Ideal: On Contemporary Poetry”
  • EDWARD BYRNE: “Life and Language: On the 50th Anniversary of Robert Lowell’s Life Studies”
  • EDWARD BYRNE: “Twentieth Anniversary Editor’s Note”
  • LAURA EBBERSON: “Elizabeth Bishop’s Poetic Voice: Reconciling Influences”
  • W.D. EHRHART: “Words for John Balaban”
  • JEFFREY FRANK: “Poetry and the Cosmopolitan: Zbigniew Herbert’s Collected Poems”
  • DAVID GRAHAM: “Voluminous Underwear: or, Why I Write Self-Portraits”
  • DAVID GRAHAM: “The Ultra-Talk Poem & Mark Halliday”
  • H. PALMER HALL: “John Balaban’s Vietnamese Translations”
  • H. PALMER HALL: “Why I Still Write about the War”
  • JONATHAN HOLDEN: “William Stafford: Genius in Camouflage”
  • CLAIRE KEYES: “Marianne Boruch and the Art of Surprise”
  • LAURENCE LIEBERMAN: “James Dickey: Four Commentaries”
  • JOHN LINSTROM: “Seeking a Center for Ecopoetics”
  • ALEXANDER LONG: “Lunch with Larry”
  • ALEXANDER LONG: “The Natural Prayer of the Soul: The Shared Gaze of James Wright and Larry Levis”
  • WALT MCDONALD: “Advice I Wish I’d Been Told”
  • ANDREW MULVANIA: “Confessions of St. Charles: Confession as Spiritual Autobiography in the Work of Charles Wright”
  • JOSEPH POWELL: “On the Newer Bees in Darwin’s Garden”
  • KATE SONTAG: “Mother, May I?: Writing with Love”
  • ANGELA TARASKIEWICZ: “String Theory: The Poetry of A.E. Stallings”
  • INGRID WENDT: “Turning to Poems”
  • JENNIFER YAROS: “Nature and the Self: Dickinson, Bishop, Plath, and Oliver”

Interviews
  • EVAN SCOTT BRYSON: “Q&A with John Balaban”
  • EDWARD BYRNE: “A.E. Stallings Interviewed by Edward Byrne”
  • EDWARD BYRNE: “Conversation with Elise Paschen”
  • EDWARD BYRNE: “Q&A with Brian Turner”
  • BARBARA CROOKER: “Ingrid Wendt Interviewed”
  • JOUGH DEMPSEY: “Q&A with Jared Carter”
  • CHRIS ELLIS: “Q&A with Jonathan Holden”
  • SONDRA GASH: “Q&A with Diane Lockward”
  • KAREN MCCARTHY: “Q&A with Bernardine Evaristo”
  • KATHLEEN MULLEN: “Seeing into the Predictable: An Interview of Catherine Tufariello”
  • ANDREW MULVANIA: “Q&A with Sherod Santos”
  • LINDA SIMONE: “Ready to Eat the Sky: An Interview of Kevin Pilkington”
  • DARRYL TIPPENS: “Evidence of Grace: An Interview with Walt McDonald”
  • RYAN G. VAN CLEAVE: “La Poesia Está en El Corazón: Virgil Suarez’s Transformation from Novelist to Poet”

Art Commentary
  • GREGG HERTZLIEB: “Abraham Rattner: Still Life Composition No. 3”
  • GREGG HERTZLIEB: “Al Held”
  • GREGG HERTZLIEB: “Art Green”
  • GREGG HERTZLIEB: “Charles White: Solid as a Rock”
  • GREGG HERTZLIEB: “David Hockney: Slow Rise”
  • GREGG HERTZLIEB: “Ed Paschke: Strano”
  • GREGG HERTZLIEB: “Elizabeth Nourse: Le Gouter”
  • GREGG HERTZLIEB: “Ellen Lanyon: Silk Cabbby”
  • GREGG HERTZLIEB: “Fare”
  • GREGG HERTZLIEB: “Frank V. Dudley: Shadows and Sunlit Silence”
  • GREGG HERTZLIEB: “Frederic Edwin Church: Mountain Landscape”
  • GREGG HERTZLIEB: “George Ames Aldrich”
  • GREGG HERTZLIEB: “Georgia O’Keeffe: Rust Red Hills”
  • GREGG HERTZLIEB: “Hazel Hannell: Still Life, 1946”
  • GREGG HERTZLIEB: “James Garrett Faulkner”
  • GREGG HERTZLIEB: “Jeanette Pasin Sloan”
  • GREGG HERTZLIEB: “Jim Dine: Rancho Woodcut Art”
  • GREGG HERTZLIEB: “John August Swanson: Festival of Lights”
  • GREGG HERTZLIEB: “John James Audubon: Purple Grackle”
  • GREGG HERTZLIEB: “Kara Walker: no world”
  • GREGG HERTZLIEB: “Madame Butterfly: A Spectacular Woodcut Triptych by Helen Frankenthaler”
  • GREGG HERTZLIEB: “Martin Puryear”
  • GREGG HERTZLIEB: “Paul Sierra: Family Portrait”
  • GREGG HERTZLIEB: “Richard Hunt”
  • GREGG HERTZLIEB: “Richard Loving: Watering System”
  • GREGG HERTZLIEB: “Robert Brauer”
  • GREGG HERTZLIEB: “Robert Cottingham: W. 12th”
  • GREGG HERTZLIEB: “Robert Lostutter”
  • GREGG HERTZLIEB: “Sadao Watanabe: Listening”
  • GREGG HERTZLIEB: “Santuaria de Chimayo”
  • GREGG HERTZLIEB: “Study for a Drawing: Stuart Davis”
  • GREGG HErTZLIEB: “Thomas H. Kapsalis: Still Life and Cloth”
  • GREGG HERTZLIEB: “Timothy Van Laar: Shadow Pictures”
  • GREGG HERTZLIEB: “Vera Klement”
  • GREGG HERTZLIEB: “William Conger”

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