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AGNI Essays by Year

The links below take you to an index of all essays published in each given year:


2009 Essays


Author Title Published
Birkerts, Sven What Remains
Birkerts, Sven Bits
Bottoms, Greg Dinner with Strangers
Christian, Brian High Compression: Information, Intimacy, and the Entropy of Life
Higgs, Christopher The Annoying Lacuna: One Unofficial History of the Oulipo
Lababidi, Yahia Aphorisms
Lenney, Dinah What Will the Soul Do for Solace Then?
McKinnon, Sara Running My Mouth
Nemser, Alexander The Wages of Sin Is Laughter
Pierce, William Crucibles: Intimations of Randomness
Purcell, Rosamond In Her Hands: The Art World Goes to War
Qualey, M. Lynx Creation
Slezak, Ellen Kissing Wayne Newton
Tunotre, J. S. AWP Chicago: A Gamer’s Notes
Watson, Emily C. Still, Sky, Girl, and Marriage


2008 Essays


Author Title Published
Birkerts, Sven The Advertent Eye
Birkerts, Sven In the Commissaries of Hell
Christian, Brian That Trick of Memory: Seasonally Induced Amnesia in Seattle
Gardner, Robert Watching
Gidding, Josh On Not Being Proust: An Essay in Literary Failure
Gorham, Sarah Darling Amanita
Gregor, Nadia The Dysthenic Revelation
Groom, Kelle How to Make a Shoe
Guida, James Marbles
Kon Zhicheng-Mingdé, Desmond Scholem in One Uneven Hour
Kupperman, Kim Dana See Me Slant: Poetry Considers Her Mother
Lahiri, Jhumpa Alberto de Lacerda: A Remembrance
Mazur, Michael Introduction to the Art Feature
Melnyczuk, Askold Shadowboxing: The Evil of Banality
Melnyczuk, Askold Shadowboxing: Secular Antics in Bethlehem
Merullo, Roland Visions of Gerard
Meyer, Kimberly Terra Sancta, or On Learning to Read the Signs
Pickering, Sam Going Nowhere
Pierce, William Crucibles: The Orchestration of Surprise
Purpura, Lia Two Experiments and a Coda
Rivard, David A Note on Steven Berg’s Rimbaud: “. . . still unilluminated I . . .
Stern, Richard So Long, Studs
Stone, Emily Lucky at Cards
Van Meter, Ryan The Men from Town
Wildgen, Michelle Aphrodisiacs


2007 Essays


Author Title Published
Birkerts, Sven The Thinker in the Garden
Birkerts, Sven The Walk
Diel, Scott 69° North, 33° East: Running from the Russians
Ifland, Alta Elegy for a Fabulous World
Karp, Jacqueline An Exchange of History Lessons
Karp, Jacqueline A Tale of Two Paintings: Orhan Pamuk and Turkey’s Troubled Identity
McCullough, Ashley Trust and the Cowboy
Meads, Kat On Reading and Rereading The Mind of the South in No Place Southern
Melnyczuk, Askold Shadowboxing: Daytripping Chatila
Miller, Ben The Butter Mint Gun
Miller, Brenda Secret Machine
Mockett, Marie Mutsuki Letter from a Japanese Crematorium
O’Connor, Stephen Milosz’s Choice: An Investigation of Sentimentality
Pearson, Joseph Mexico in Ruins
Pierce, William Crucibles: “Let Us Imagine”
Purpura, Lia The Lustres
Schuette-Hoffman, Allison Risk Assessment
Shrayer, Maxim D. Sarda Resarta
Solow, Harrison Bendithion
Tillinghast, Richard from Istanbul in Winter: Hagia Sophia, The Call to Prayer, Rumi
Tillinghast, Richard Water Music
Trubek, Anne On Finally Seeing the Polish Rider at the Frick Museum
Tyree, J. M. Paterson and Paterson (and Jersey and America)
Walker, Nicole Dissociation (The Natural Order)


2006 Essays


Author Title Published
Bardes, Charles, M.D. ante mortem
Bardes, Charles, M.D. borrowed intimacy
Bardes, Charles, M.D. dark room
Bardes, Charles, M.D. don’t
Bardes, Charles, M.D. dove sono
Bardes, Charles, M.D. ED
Bardes, Charles, M.D. enough music
Bardes, Charles, M.D. heroic measures
Bardes, Charles, M.D. perfect
Bardes, Charles, M.D. pill
Bardes, Charles, M.D. plenty of fluids
Bardes, Charles, M.D. reading a patient
Bardes, Charles, M.D. Seven essays from The Double Serpent: Subtexts in Medicine: caduceus, diseasification, morphine—by way of an explanation, radical mastectomy, sulfa, urinalysis, wound
Bardes, Charles, M.D. system support
Birkerts, Sven An Appreciation of Charles Bardes, M.D.
Birkerts, Sven Finding Traction
Birkerts, Sven The Hive Life
Brouwer, Joel Havana City Limits
Gausby, Christopher from Philosophic Journal
Gray, Robert from Reading My Father
Hoover, Joe Bus
Johnson, B. What Gets Buried
Keizer, Garret Florence of Paterson
Larsen, Lance My Brother, Floating
Lenney, Dinah Deal
Livaccari, Christopher Of Emptiness, Nothingness, and Asymptotic Freedom
Lyons, Jacqueline A Sort of a Map
Maris, Kathryn Introduction to A Portfolio of British and Irish Poems
Marshall, Alexandra At Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres
Melnyczuk, Askold Shadowboxing: On the Failures of Victory
Miller, A. P. Blessing the New Moon
Miller, Ben A Study in Sequins
Pierce, William Crucibles: Report on a Report
Purpura, Lia Being of Two Minds
Rawlings, Wendy Spectacular Mistakes
Riordan, Maurice Introduction to A Portfolio of British and Irish Poems
Schwabe, Liesl Mr. Dangerous and Mumtaz
Tevis, Joni Chihuahua Desert Love Song
Tyree, J.M. Displeasures of Empire, or An American Werewolf in Finsbury Park
Wickersham, Joan An Attempt at a Biographical Essay


2005 Essays


Author Title Published
Beckman, Joshua Please Do Us a Favor
Birkerts, Sven As Above: Saul Bellow
Birkerts, Sven The Ideal Reader
Burris, Sidney Past Reason Hunted, or Living with Sonnet 129
Chiasson, Dan One Kind of Everything
Collins, Myfanwy Tobacco Road
Comer, Diane The Ore of Longing
Danoff, Douglas To the New World and Back
Davidson, Deborah Considering Language
Duffin, K. E. Bronx
Duffin, K. E. Marostica
Duffin, K. E. Palladio
Kemperman, Kerrie What I Know, What I Don’t
Keplinger, David Milosz, Simic, and the Mask of the Prodigal
Leach, Dirk Popeye Hemingway
Mathison, Neil Cross Threaded
Mehlman, Jeffrey Kandahar: A Memoir
Melnyczuk, Askold Shadowboxing: An Open Letter to My Students About Captain Violin, Saul Bellow, the War, and the Art of Fiction
Melnyczuk, Askold Shadowboxing: Style and Time
Michelson, Joan The Last Haircut
Miller, Ben Romancing the Dankerts
Mullarkey, Maureen Transubstantiations
Robinson, Jay Weldon Kees & Robinson: Portraits in Absentia
Sutton, Patrick Force by Two
Trifonov, Yuri A Visit with Marc Chagall (translated from the Russian by Maxim D. Shrayer)
Wormser, Baron from The Woods: A Meditation


2004 Essays


Author Title Published
Banks, Russell H & I
Birkerts, Sven The Decline of the West & Other Animadversions
Birkerts, Sven Reading at the Limit
Birkerts, Sven Scratch
Birkerts, Sven Submission Guidelines
Bissell, Tom Truth in Oxiana
Blume, Harvey Hammer
Chiasson, Dan How to Read the World: Louise Glück’s “Prism”
Cooley, Martha Dogs: A Moscow Triptych
Daniels, J. D. Technical Difficulty
Debeljak, Ales Tomaz Salamun and His “Tribe”
Germanacos, Anne Caffeine
Grunwald, Eric On Leaving the Womb
Hall, Donald Domains
Harmon, Joshua The Annotated Mix-Tape
Jackson, Katherine Cake or Death?
Kopple, PhD, Kathryn A. A Reader’s Response to Anis Shivani’s “Where Does Collaboration with Fascist Aesthetics Begin and End?”
Larson, Doran An Instance
Man, George E. N. de Language in Myth, Religion, Saga, and Tale
Melnyczuk, Askold Shadowboxing: From the Diary of a Self-hating Pundit
Melnyczuk, Askold Shadowboxing: Gentlemen’s Disagreements
Melnyczuk, Askold Shadowboxing: with Alan Greenspan
Minkkinen, Arno Rafael Photography and the Fine Art of Swimming
Pickering, Sam End Papers
Pierce, William Fabulously Real
Purpura, Lia Glaciology
Sherman, Ken A Violence from Within: Poetry & Terrorism
Shivani, Anis Where Does Collaboration with Fascist Aesthetics Begin and End?
Warner, William Moscow to the End of the Line
Warner, William Products of a reading of an English translation of Doctor Zhivago’s Italian publisher


2003 Essays


Author Title Published
Ashar, Ronny Objects and Digressions
Benfey, Christopher With How Sad Steps, O Moon
Birkerts, Sven Noble Rot
Birkerts, Sven On Becoming an Editor
Birkerts, Sven Stage 2
Blume, Harvey WB on the Treadmill
Dovzhenko, Alexander from The Enchanted Desna
Ferguson, Jesseca Introduction to the Art Feature
Frick, Thomas The Picture House
Howard, Maureen Vernissage
Keplinger, David Towards a Cultural Geography
LaSalle, Peter Metaphysical Messages: With J. L. B. in Buenos Aires
Livesey, Margot Eyeless, Headless
Mattison, Alice Fever
Melnyczuk, Askold Shadowboxing: Ball’s Bearings and Monster from the Midlands
Melnyczuk, Askold Shadowboxing: For the Iraqi Dead
Norman, Howard Carousel Horse
Pickering, Sam Early April
Purcell, Rosamond Breaking Ground
Schwartz, Lynne Sharon I Wish I Could Say the Same
Scialabba, George Message from Room 101
Shrayer, Maxim D. Lorca
Slouka, Mark Historical Vertigo: Observations from the Nick of Time
Stavans, Ilan ¡Lotería! or, The Ritual of Chance
Stephenson, Wen Re: No Subject


2002 Essays


Author Title Published
Chapel, Debbie Danielpour Land Where My Fathers Died
Ginzburg, Natalia Film (translated from the Italian by Lynne Sharon Schwartz)
Ginzburg, Natalia The Great Lady (translated from the Italian by Lynne Sharon Schwartz)
Ginzburg, Natalia An Invisible Government (translated from the Italian by Lynne Sharon Schwartz)
Karasik, Judy An Editorial Relationship
Mar, M. Elaine Bi Bi Hua
Melnyczuk, Askold Putting Down the Gloves, Leaving the Whispering Gallery
Melnyczuk, Askold Shadowboxing: Putting Down the Gloves, Leaving the Whispering Gallery
Melnyczuk, Askold Shadowboxing: The Future of Literature in America
Moss, Rose Mulberries
Scialabba, George Letter to the Editor about Michael Scharf’s “Statesman or War Criminal?”
Shrayer, Maxim D. Stephansplatz


2001 Essays


Author Title Published
Andrukhovych, Yuri Within Time, Down a River (translated from the Ukrainian by Michael M. Naydan)
Arnove, Anthony Scenes from Iraq
Berrigan, Philip Nuclear Denial
Broz, Svetlana Good People in Times of Evil (translated from the Serbian by Zorica Stoilovic and Ellen Elias-Bursac)
Feitlowitz, Marguerite “We Know Nothing. It Isn’t Taught”: Secret Histories of Argentina’s Dirty War
Henry, DeWitt Innocents Abroad
Hryn, Halyna Oksana Zabuzhko’s Field Work in Ukrainian Sex
Manea, Norman Periprava, 1958
Melnyczuk, Askold Shadowboxing: Prophet Loss
Rabben, Linda Amnesty International: Myth and Reality
Ratiner, Steven Introduction to Interviews with Bei Dao and Rita Dove
Rosenwald, Lawrence On Nonviolence and Literature
Rubenstein, Joshua Premature Witness
Scammell, Michael Arthur Koestler in Civil War Spain
Stavans, Ilan . . . and justice for all
Stavans, Ilan Efraín Huerta: Epitaph for the Crocodile
Stavans, Ilan Efraín Huerta: Epitaph for the Crocodile
Wasserman, Dan Lunacy ’Toons
Wilde-Menozzi, Wallis The Oneness of Music


2000 Essays


Author Title Published
Bourne, Louis Rafael Alberti between the Sword and the Carnation
Buchwald, Christoph Mixed Choir with Eleven Voices
Daynard, Jodi Time Has a Color
Földényi, László Under the Reichsbeauty’s Spell (translated from the Hungarian by Michael Blumenthal)
Goldensohn, Barry Melville’s The Confidence Man and His Descendants in David Mamet’s Work
Lehman, David What the Poets in Germany Are Up To These Days
Lennon, Ivan A Minimum Rage
Man, George de Silent Reading: Southern Gnostic and the State of the Union
Melnyczuk, Askold In Memorium: Solomea Pavlychko
Melnyczuk, Askold Shadowboxing: Able Was I Ere I Was Cain
Melnyczuk, Askold Shadowboxing: The Future of Fiction: Toward a New Internationalism
Shrayer, Maxim D. Master of Palindromes: Remembering and Rereading Michael B. Kreps
Shrayer, Maxim D. A Note on Eduard Bagritskii’s “Origin”
Silbert, Sarah The Great Heron Feeds
Stavans, Ilan The Rise and Fall of Yiddish
Vierek, Peter Preface to Lynette Labinger’s Conversation with Joseph Brodsky


1999 Essays


Author Title Published
Bergstein, Gerry Introduction to the Art Feature: Elaine Spatz-Rabinowitz
Bergstein, Gerry Introduction to the Art Feature: Shellburne Thurber
Brenna, Duff Alienation, Imagination, Secrets and Sins in Thomas E. Kennedy
Chasalow, Eric AGNI in the Music Business
Cherry, Kelly What is Music? What is Poetry?
Goldensohn, Barry David Mamet and Poetic Language in Drama
Henry, Dewitt First Love: A Memoir
Kennedy, Thomas E. Sweet Fire: Memories of Andre Dubus
Melnyczuk, Askold Shadowboxing: Saved by Shame: Milosz’s Concupiscent Curds
Sleigh, Tom One Person in Three Substances, or Three Substances in One Person?
Voskeritchian, Taline The Eyes of Yerevan
Whedon, Tony The Transfiguration of Pinsky


1998 Essays


Author Title Published
Benevich, Grigory Which Earth?
Berger, Andrea A Note on Ádám Bodor’s Fiction
Brasfield, James A Note on Oleh Lysheha
Callan, Annie Catherine in Glass, from Swimming at the Joyce Museum
Hausler, Pete A Strange Kind of Exile—Hope and Despair in Ivan Klima
Hemschemeyer, Judith Paying Attention
Hiestand, Emily Angela the Upside-Down Girl
Kates, J. Ed Hogan
Kennedy, Thomas E. The Dream of a Castle
Lawrence, Vicki Vergangenheitsbewaltigung
Lieblich, Julia Pieces of Bones
Melnyczuk, Askold Ed Hogan: In Memoriam
Melnyczuk, Askold Shadowboxing: On Not Being Irish in Boston
Naydan, Michael M. Prefatory Note on Andrukhovych’s “Testament”
Naydan, Michael M. In Eternal Memory
Rehder, Wulf The Thingun
Stavans, Ilan Memory and Literature
Walsh, Chris “Building the House of Dying”: Donald Hall’s Claim for Poetry
Zeitlin, Leora Memoir


1997 Essays


Author Title Published
Keplinger, David The Happiness Taboo
LaSalle, Peter No Ventriloquism: The Idea of Voice in Book Reviewing
Melnyczuk, Askold AGNI at Twenty-Five
Packer, George School on a Garbage Pile


1996 Essays


Author Title Published
Birkerts, Sven Joseph Brodsky
Brodsky, Joseph from “Uncommon Visage,” in On Grief and Reason
Bruchac, Joseph Strong Stories
Collins, Martha Translating Viet Nam
Goodheart, Eugene Sticks and Stones
Heaney, Seamus Shorts for Simic
Hershman, Marcie Living on Top
Jarniewicz, Jerzy Poetry, History and the Love of Oranges
Kaysen, Susanna On Rereading The Magic Mountain
Mattawa, Khaled Epic Temptations
Melnyczuk, Askold To Tease a Shadow: In Memoriam, JB
Morris, Mary Essay on Eavesdropping
Neville, Tam Lin Mandelstam’s Web
Powers, Katherine A. On Conversation with Joseph Brodsky
Rehder, Wulf A Descriptive Analysis of Bank Notes
Wright, Carolyne Open Secrets: An Insider’s Introduction to Allende’s Chile


1995 Essays


Author Title Published
AGNI, Michael Franco’s Word of Mouth
Anderson, Scott E-mail from Paris
deNiord, Chard Peter Balakian and the Poetry of Witness: A Reply
Drakulic, Slavenka Reading Karahasan
Focht, Lynn The Risks of Being Suleiman
Goldner, Loren The On-Line World is Also on Fire: A Reply to Sven Birkerts’s The Gutenberg Elegies
Karahasan, Dzevad A Belated Reply to N.
Karahasan, Dzevad Letter from N.
Karahasan, Dzevad Literature and War
Karahasan, Dzevad A Love Letter
Scialabba, George Wistful Thinking about the Political Weeklies


1994 Essays


Author Title Published
Agosín, Marjorie How to Speak with the Dead? A Poet’s Notebook (translated from the Spanish by Monica Bruno)
Atkinson, Diana from Highways and Dancehalls
Bauer, Douglas After the Fact: Discoveries in the Writing of a Biographical Novel
Birkerts, Sven Biography and the Dissolving Self: A Note
Corbett, William A Confession
Corbett, William from Philip Guston
deNiord, Chard The High Place of American Poetry: The Problem with Witness
Homer, Art Falling
Johnson, Alex How I Became Eye
Johnson, Susan A Long Way in the Dark
Laughlin, James 9 Ridge Road, from Remembering William Carlos Williams
Malcomson, Scott from Borderlands: 27-39
Moore, Honor The Crimson Snake
Pavlychko, Solomea A Catfish for Your Thoughts: Ukrainian Literature at the Turning Point
Phillips, Caryl Water
Pistalo, Vladimir The Building with a Crown (translated from the Serbian by Charles Simic)
Polizzotti, Mark In Search of André Breton
Scialabba, George The Sealed Envelope
Simon, Linda Foreign States of Mind


1993 Essays


Author Title Published
Blumenthal, Michael The Things They Still Carry: A Post-Vietnam Story
Ellis, Thomas Sayers Windows, Open Homes, A Sense of Community
Lease, Joseph Start from Where You Are
Melnyczuk, Askold James Laughlin, Poet
Melnyczuk, Hanna On the Verge: Emerging Massachusetts Artists
Nelson, Victoria Messages of Black Birds


1992 Essays


Author Title Published
Barka, Wasyl The Nature of Poetry
Birkerts, Sven The Woman in the Garden
Corbett, William Prologue: Marlborough Gallery October 1970
Davidson, Miriam Women of the Maquiladoras
Epstein, Leslie Two Young Writers
Garg, Mridula Bilingualism and the Creative Writer in India
Gewanter, David A Note on Thom Gunn’s “Lament”
Heaney, Seamus Frank Bidart: A Salute
Lease, Joseph Who Do We Think We Are?
Nelson, Victoria The Strange History of the American Fanatic
Owchar, Nick “What Was Lost”: Dissident Artists after Soviet Communism
Rosenwald, Lawrence On War Tax Resistance
Weiner, Joshua Thom Gunn’s “Meat”


1991 Essays


Author Title Published
Balakian, Peter An Armenian Journal
Chomsky, Noam What Lies Ahead for Central America?
Cohen, Joshua The Gulf War and American Politics
Corbett, William Robert Mapplethorpe’s Photographs
Corbett, William Trevor Winkfield’s Altarpieces
Elman, Richard Post Time
Epstein, Leslie The Movie on the Warehouse Wall
II, Pat C. Hoy The Spirit Was Willing and So Was the Flesh
II, Pat C. Hoy Wars Just and Unjust
Melnyczuk, Askold Shadowboxing: A Column
Rose, Jennifer V-Mail
Rubchak, Bohdan Because We Have No Time: Recent Ukrainian Poetry
Suleiman, Susan Rubin My War in Four Episodes


1990 Essays


Author Title Published
Birkerts, Sven Reflections of a Non-Political Man
Bok, Sissela School for Scandal
Clarvoe, Jennifer Quoting History, Reading Poetry
Corbett, William Better Than Nature: Gregory Amenoff’s New Paintings
Dischell, Stuart Robert Penn Warren
Engel, Monroe Knowing More Than One Imagines; Imagining More Than One Knows
Grossman, Allen On the Management of Absolute Empowerment: Nuclear Violence, the Institutions of Holiness, and the Structures of Poetry
Hass, Robert Some Notes on Coming to Jakarta
Hemschemeyer, Judith Translator’s Introduction, from The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova
Melnyczuk, Askold The Hammer on the Table
Melnyczuk, Askold Reply to Birkerts
Onyshkevych, Larissa M. L. Zaleska Echoes of Chernobyl in Soviet Ukrainian Literature
Scialabba, George Inside the Cave
Scott, Peter Dale How I Came to Jakarta
Selinger, Eric William Corbett
Sleigh, Tom Editor’s Note
Williamson, Alan Poetry and Politics


1989 Essays


Author Title Published
Agosín, Marjorie Letter to AGNI (translated from the Spanish by Cola Franzen)
Bensen, Robert The Garden and the Abyss: Columbus’ Journal and Three Caribbean Writers
Digges, Deborah Letter to AGNI
Gen, Gish Letter to AGNI
Hongo, Garrett Letter to AGNI
Krupat, Arnold Letter to AGNI
Lynn, Elizabeth Cook Letter to AGNI
Pinsky, Robert The Poet in the Faubourg “Jewish”
Tarnowsky, Osip Letter to AGNI
Wakefield, Dan Letter to AGNI
West, Alan Latin American Writing: Language and Spices, Resistance and Redemption


1988 Essays


Author Title Published
Alcorn, Alfred Influences
Anonymous, Objections Noted
Bahr, Thomas The Cork-Lined Room
Balakian, Peter Arshile Gorky’s Embroidered Apron
Baumel, Judith Inventory
Benfey, Christopher Persimmons
Bertoni, Christina Note to the Art Feature
Birkerts, Sven Starting
Bowen, Paul Note to the Art Feature
Burgess, Lowery Note to the Art Feature
Clayton, John J. A Deeper Music
Cook, Mariana Ansel Adams
Corbett, William Philip Guston
Cramer, Steven The Imperfect Teacher
Davis, Meredith Note to the Art Feature
Dischell, Stuart Until We Are Pure Spirit
Eshleman, Clayton Novices
Feldman, Ruth Visit to a Dead Poet
Ferguson, Jessica Note to the Art Feature
Frick, Thomas Introduction to the Art Feature: Concerning the Spiritual in Art
Frick, Thomas Science Fiction
Ghitelman, David Robert Maurer
Hall, Donald Influential Anxieties
Harmon, William Being Helped
Holmer, Martie Note to the Art Feature
Laffoley, Paul Note to the Art Feature
Lehman, David Three Notes on the Computer
Leibowitz, Herbert Fathers and Son
Lourie, Jod Note to the Art Feature
Melnyczuk, Askold Editor’s Note
Melnyczuk, Askold Introduction
Melnyczuk, Askold Roman Coins, Scythian Pottery
Milburn, Michael Lowell’s Atmosphere
Milburn, Michael Lowell’s Atmosphere
Norman, Howard Cendrar’s Trunk
Oppenheimer, Joel Influences
Rector, Liam Influences Among Elders
Robinson, Marilynne Culture and Spirit
Rudman, Mark On Influence
Scialabba, George Demos and Sophia: Not a Love Story
Scialabba, George An Honest Believer
Shapiro, Alan Follow the Yellow Brick Road
Shelnutt, Eve “Driving to the Interior”: Elizabeth Bishop, Guide
Sleigh, Tom Ay, Que Vida
Smith, Jordan A Note on George Oppen
Spivack, Kathleen Robert Lowell
Stern, Richard On Reprinting Golk
Storage, Patricia Food and Cooking
Vevers, Tabitha Note to the Art Feature
Weinberger, Eliot Is God Down?
Wormser, Baron Chuck Berry, Yes
Wormser, Baron William Blake: Some Pieces from the Puzzle


1986 Essays


Author Title Published
Falk, Richard The Spirit of Thoreau in the Age of Trident


1985 Essays


Author Title Published
Birkerts, Sven Introduction to a Special Feature: On the Experience of Reading
Birkerts, Sven Notes from a Confession
Cavell, Stanley Philosophy’s Two Myths of Reading
Corbett, William On Reading: Notes & a Poem
Frick, Thomas Nietzsche’s Typewriter: Notes on Meaning and the Material World
Galassi, Jonathan Notes on Reading
Harmon, William E. E. & I
Heaney, Seamus Place and Displacement: Reflections on Some Recent Poetry from Northern Ireland
Middleton, Christopher [Untitled]


1984 Essays


Author Title Published
Birkerts, Sven James Wright’s “Hammock”: A Sounding
Melnyczuk, Askold Introduction to This Issue’s Poetry


1983 Essays


Author Title Published
Birkerts, Sven Last Things First: Czeslaw Milosz’s Witness of Poetry
Logan, William Introduction to a portfolio of younger British poets
Logan, William Introduction to a portfolio of younger Irish poets
Pevear, Richard Negatives


1981 Essays


Author Title Published
Allen, Bruce Afterword on James Hanley’s “When the Light Came”


1979 Essays


Author Title Published
Goldensohn, Lorrie Love’s Progress


1978 Essays


Author Title Published
Collins, Martha The Contents of Discontent: A Preface to Some Poems by Peter Klappert

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