Table of Contents: December 2008

Cover art: Stuart White, "Untitled," 2008.

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	AUTHOR	TITLE
	Roddy Lumsden	The Young The Beautiful The Damned
	Todd Boss	This Morning in a Morning Voice Were I to Wring a Rag Don’t Be Flip
	Joan Houlihan	She had a death in me A crush of oily plant and treated white Who kills my history
	Ange Mlinko	The Leaves Are Falling Year Round Securitization
	Fred D'Aguiar	ROYGBIV Railway
	R. S. Gwynn	God’s Secretary
	Glenn Morazzini	Therapy from the Garden
	Nicky Beer	Prairie Octopus, Awake Ad Hominem
	Michael Rutherglen	Plasma Lives of the Watchmakers
	Roger Reeves	The Mare of Money Cymothoa Exigua
	Caki Wilkinson	Cosmogony Lares and Penates
	Alison Stine	School After the Party

		COMMENT
	Fanny Howe	"My Father Was White but Not Quite" During her father's legal battles in the civil-rights and McCarthy eras in Boston, poet Fanny Howe found her life's work studying the self, the natural world, and the 'fist of survival.'
	Dennis O'Driscoll	Beyond All This Fiddle In a wide-ranging interview, Nobel Prize winning poet Heaney talks about the Avant-Garde, Robert Frost’s influence, poetic form, and "phonetic grunting from South Derry."
	Michael Robbins	"More Thinking and Less Streaming" New books by Bidart, Stone, Gibbons and Boruch reviewed by Michael Robbins.