CONTENTS vol. 28 no. 1

Features

Introducing DEREK MONG
Introduction by DAVID BAKER & Two Poems

Introducing LINNEA OGDEN
Introduction by STEPHEN BURT & Four Poems

Cultural Studies

MARK HALLIDAY
Prospectus

Fiction

DAN MALAKOFF
Penelope Redux

ELLEN VISSON
Something Borrowed

JAMES W. CRILLY
Descent

Essay

RICK BAROT
The Body Project: Notes on Carl Phillips

Poems

KIM ADDONIZIO
November 11

JAMES RICHARDSON
By the Numbers; Head-On; Blackout

JOSHUA COBEN
Domestication

ELISA GABBERT
Edge Remix

CLAIRE HERO
Little Gretel, Gristle and Spine; A Landskip

MICHAEL WURSTER
The War

ASTRID CABRAL
(Translated by ALEXIS LEVITIN)
A Way of Loving; Communion/Excommunion; Search

DAVID WAGONER
This Is Only a Test; Fighting the Blizzard

ADRIAN BLEVINS
First Winter in Maine

NGO TU LAP
(Translated by MARTHA COLLINS and the author)
Sandal Dropped in a Swamp

JERRY HARP
Houses

JERICHO BROWN
The Gulf

CHRIS FORHAN
Holy Mess; What My Father Left Behind

JEAN ESTEVE
Idle Girl

ALBERT GOLDBARTH
“I taped a sign over the first sign”

MIRCEA IVANESCU
(Translated by ADAM J. SORKIN with LIDIA VIANU)
mopete and the hypostases; a gentle hypostasis of the air dog;
mopete and the game with stained glass

AMANDA AUCHTER
The Martyrdom of Saint Agatha

STEPHEN BURT
Bad Newz

MARTHA COLLINS
Lash

KRZYSZTOF LISOWSKI
(Translated by EWA HRYNIEWICZ-YARBROUGH)
Creation of the World

VICTORIA BROCKMEIER
medea

CAROL QUINN
Apostasy

MICHELE GLAZER
Mattress

RHIANNON DICKERSON
God has gone underground; [Language is a shifting house]

MALACHI BLACK
Ode to the Sun

CAMPBELL MCGRATH
Texts

ROBERTO BOLAÑO
(Translated by LAURA HEALY)
Lupe

ALESSANDRA LYNCH
The Day the Lady Wore a Mask, a Bomb Strapped to Her Side

MARGARET PETERS SCHWED
Can I Be Justified in Speaking?

ERNEST HILBERT
William James Still, Drowned in the Delaware River

PAGE HILL STARZINGER
Burrow

PHYLLIS STOWELL
Summer Fog

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The Pleiades Review of Books

Featured Reviews

MICHAEL THEUNE
Writing Degree ∞(On Recent Haiku)

ROBERT ARCHAMBEAU
A Portrait of Reginald Shepard as Philoctetes

JERRY HARP
Moving through History with Kevin Young

Shorter Reviews

SIDNEY WADE
on Batur’s Ash Divan, Selected Poems

KATIE PETERSON
on Thompson’s The Pitch

HERMAN ASARNOW
on Dennis’ Unknown Friends

CARTER SMITH
on Gallaher’s The Little Book of Guesses

TOM BOURGUIGNON
on Young’s Embryoyo

MARCUS MYERS
on Cooperman’s DaZE

KEVIN CANTWELL
on Cole’s Blackbird and Wolf

NANCY KUHL
on Vap’s American Spikenard

NED BALBO
on Byrd’s Under the Wanderer’s Star, Smith’s Settling for Beauty,
Northrop’s Things Are Disappearing Here, Moore’s Dissolution of
Ghosts, Terrone’s A Secret Room in Fall, Rutsala’s How We Spent Our
Time, Rathburn’s The Shifting Line, & Allen’s 67 Mixed Messages

JOAN HOULIHAN
on Hannah’s Inflorescence

THOMAS F. DILLINGHAM
on Rimbaud’s A Season in Hell

KRISTIN THIEL
on Burgin’s The Conference on Beautiful Moments

MATTHEW COOPERMAN
on Kryah’s Glean

THOMAS F. DILLINGHAM
on Barnes’ Visiting Picasso

MICHAEL SNEDIKER
on Björling’s You Go The Words

MARCUS SMITH
on Kirchwey’s The Happiness of this World

CAROL QUINN
on Gwiazda’s Gagarin Street

ROBERT C. JONES
on Ingersoll’s Breaking the Alabaster Jar: Conversations with Li-Young
Lee & Bowering’s Vermeer’s Light

STEVEN D. SCHROEDER
on Tichy’s Bone Pagoda

LYNNELL EDWARDS
on Frost’s The Queen’s Desertion & Goldberg’s The Book of Accident

JONI TEVIS
on Beaton’s Dragonflies and Damselflies of Georgia and the Southeast,
Maloof ’s Teaching the Trees: Lessons from the Forest, & Rothenberg’s
Always the Mountains

RICHARD H. PARKS
on Gordon’s A Fiddle Pulled from the Throat of a Sparrow

CHRISTOPHER HIGGS
on Hawkey’s Citizen Of

CHERI JOHNSON
on Gallagher’s Dear Ghosts

KATHERINE BODE-LANG
on Portes’ Hick & Goodyear’s View from a Burning Bridge

CRAIG SANTOS PEREZ
on Nakayasu’s nothing fictional but the accuracy or arrangement (she

DEREK POLLARD
on Lin’s you are a little bit happier than I am


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