Table of Contents: November 2008

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Cover art: Ana Benaroya, “Portrait of a Girl,” 2008.

AUTHOR TITLE
Roberto Bolaño Soni
Ernesto Cardenal and I
La Francesa
Visit to the Convalescent
Dirty, Poorly Dressed
Palingenesis
Philip Levine Our Valley
Mary Szybist On Wanting to Tell [ ] about a Girl Eating Fish Eyes
Hail
Fiona Sampson Zeus to Juno
Billy Collins Her
The Chairs That No One Sits In
Elaine Equi A Start
Antiquity Calling
Jorge Sánchez Plaint in a Major Key
Stephen Edgar Murray Dreaming
William Logan To a Wedding
mIEKAL aND mi'kmaq book of the dead
K. S. Ernst & Sheila E. Murphy Vortextique
derek beaulieu untitled (for Natalee and Jeremy)
Peter Ciccariello The Disremembered Glossolalist
Bob Dahlquist alwaysendeavor
Jesse Patrick Ferguson Mama
Scott Helmes haiku #62
Joel Lipman from “Origins of Poetry”
gustave morin toon tune
jörg piringer fallen
Philip Gallo untitled
Michael Basinski Labile
COMMENT
Geof Huth Visual Poetry Today
They are not merely poems, but they are certainly poems.
Adam Kirsch Literary Fame in the Time of Flame Wars
Is the Internet really going to change how literary reputations get made?
Carmine Starnino Beyond Heaney?
Five Irish poets who are changing Irish poetry: Eavan Boland, Harry Clifton; Medbh McGuckian, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, and Ciaran Carson.
Ange Mlinko "Information, Thy Nemesis is Reverie"
How Devin Johnston and Linda Gregg chase the Romantic.
Robert Archambeau Poetry, Politics, and Leanings-Left
Why poets after Eliot will never be as conservative as bankers.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
William Logan Letter to the Editor
Jay Robinson Letter to the Editor
Mischa Willett Letter to the Editor
David Tinling Letter to the Editor
Paul J Healy Letter to the Editor
Loren Keller Letter to the Editor
Fraser Sutherland Letter to the Editor
Gertrude Rubin Letter to the Editor