Welcome to the first issue of Harvard Review Online, a monthly online literary journal designed to complement Harvard Review. In order to make them more accessible, we are moving the majority of our book reviews online. We are also expanding our poetry section to include an online component, which will allow us to publish a greater number of new and established poets. We are excited about the flexibility this new medium offers, and look forward to introducing our readers to more great new work. We hope you enjoy the first issue!
—The Editors
Michael Burkard
"what could be more than a kiss?"
Jane Hirshfield
"First Light Edging Cirrus"
Tomaz Salamun
"Where is the Little Wall From"
Kim Addonizio
"Sui"
Keith Ekiss
"State Fair"
Yusef Komunyakaa
"A Visit to Inner Sanctum"
Saara Raappana
"Derrida at His Mother's Deathbed"
Marcus Jackson
"Neighborhood Car Mechanic"
Plan B
by Paul Muldoon
reviewed by Heather Clark
Enitharmon Press/Dufour Editions, 2009
$33.95 cloth, ISBN 9781904634829
Lipstick Traces: A Secret History
of the
Twentieth Century
by Greil Marcus
reviewed by Cameron McWhirter
Harvard University Press, 20th Anniversary Edition, 2009
$24.95 paper, ISBN 9780674034808
Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times
of an American Original
by Robin D. G. Kelley
reviewed by Amor Kohli
Free Press, 2009
$30.00 cloth, ISBN 9780684831909
