HR ONLINE ISSUE 2

Welcome to the third issue of HROnline, featuring William Doreski's "First Books, First Looks," a review of thirteen debut collections of poetry.

Our editors are busy pulling together the fall/winter print issue (HR39), so if you haven't had a chance to check out HR38 yet, get a copy now. They're running out!

—The Editors


poetry

Scott Hightower

"Le Soldat Avec Les Besoins Infantiles "

Myron Michael

"Wilcox House "

Jason Schneiderman

"The Kübler-Ross Joke "

special feature, first books first looks
reviews
vergil aeneid
smith word comix
Hemon Best European Fiction

The Aeneid

by Vergil, translated by Sarah Ruden

reviewed by J. Kates

Yale University Press, 2009
$16.95 paper, ISBN 9780300119046

Word Comix

by Charlie Smith

reviewed by Shrode Hargis

W. W. Norton & Company, 2009
$23.95 cloth, ISBN 9780393067620

Best European Fiction 2010

edited by Aleksandar Hemon

reviewed by Lisa Nold

Dalkey Archive Press, 2010
$15.95 paper, ISBN 9781564785435

Byrne Mad World
shinder stupid hope
Carson Collected Poems

Mad World: Evelyn Waugh and the Secrets of Brideshead

by Paula Byrne

reviewed by Laura Albritton

HarperCollins, 2010
$25.99 cloth, ISBN 9780007243761

Stupid Hope

by Jason Shinder

reviewed by Adam Eaglin

Graywolf Press , 2009
$15.00 paper, ISBN 9781555975333

Collected Poems

by Ciaran Carson

reviewed by Heather Clark

Wake Forest University Press, 2009
$19.95 paper, ISBN 9781930630451