Twenty-Three - Fall 2002
People have a lot of questions. It's been a cause for concern, for many, many years now. And pain. I know that some people are worried, distressed—truly
distressed, deeply, anguished even. I feel that. I really do. That's why I feel—I just have to say—to put everyone's minds at rest—I have it. The Vermeer. From the Gardner.
Miss Paula in Theresa Rebeck's "Art Appreciation"
| Essays | |
|---|---|
| SARAH CHAYES | Letter from Kandahar |
| DRUSILLA MODJESKA | The Traveler's Husk |
| MICHAEL GORRA | Scrapbook: Hamburg |
| MARSHA POMERANTZ | Moment |
| SARAH KAFATOU | Jorge Semprun: la vie continue |
| ALAN FELDMAN | Freedom of the Poet: Carl Dennis |
| Fiction | |
|---|---|
| CHARLES YU | Problems for Self-Study |
| KATE GRENVILLE | Jacob's Ladder |
| ROBERT COOVER | The Return of the Dark Children |
| HARRY MATHEWS | The Broadcast |
| ANNE WALDRON NEUMANN | The Turtle That Had Elevated Thoughts |
| TRACY MILLER GEARY | How to Be a Beekeeper |
| Poetry | |
|---|---|
| LES MURRAY | Post Mortem The Test The Domain of the Octopus Leaf Brims Pietà Once Attributed to Cosme Tura |
| RICHARD CADDEL | Six Workers... |
| JOHN KINSELLA | Rust humidity... |
| COLE SWENSEN | The Hands' Testament The Hand as Historical |
| NADIA HERMAN COLBURN | The Gypsy |
| EVA HOOKER | Almanac: for Making Consolation |
| DÎPTI SARAVANAMUTTU | Flying North in Winter |
| J. VANBALLENBERGHE | Untitled |
| ELIZABETH SMITHER | Shopping with Beth |
| LEE UPTON | Ancient Arts |
| ROWAN RICARDO PHILLIPS | Sin Vergüenza |
| DAVID R. SLAVITT | Crazy Delmore |
| STEPHEN SANDY | Above Cadenabbia |
| MEENA ALEXANDER | Ghalib's Ghost |
| JONATHAN HART | from Turning |
| CHARLES HARPER WEBB | Wave |
| JOHN TAGLIABUE | Often we can't help but wonder... |
| Drama | |
|---|---|
| THERESA REBECK | Art Appreciation |
| Visual Art | |
|---|---|
| JOHN MURRAY | Six Linocuts |
| Feature: Korea | |
|---|---|
| DAVID MCCANN | A Note on Korean Writing Today |
| SHIN KYOUNG-SOOK | The Blind Calf |
| Book Reviews | |
|---|---|
| Priscilla Becker, Internal West | William Doreski |
| Robin Becker, The Horse Fair | Graham Christian |
| Daniel Bosch, Crucible | Christina Pugh |
| Richard Caddel, Magpie Words | Tony Baker |
| Beth Ann Fennelley, Open House | William Doreski |
| Anne Ferry, Tradition and the Individual Poem | Todd Hearon |
| Anthony Flowers, Quiet Music | Tony Baker |
| Seamus Heaney, Finders Keepers | Thomas O'Grady |
| Sonia Ketchian, Keats and the Russian Poets | Lauren G. Leighton |
| Miriam Levine, In Paterson | Deborah Z. Porter |
| Ross Martin, The Cop Who Rides Alone | William Doreski |
| Robert Mezey, Collected Poems 1952-1999 | Harry Thomas |
| Chelsey Minnis, Zirconia | Cynthia Roth |
| Richard Murphy, Collected Poems 1952-2000 | Floyd Skloot |
| Lorine Niedecker, Collected Works | Jacquelyn Pope |
| Gina Ochsner, The Necessary Grace to Fall | Paul Harding |
| Gregory Orr, The Caged Owl | Floyd Skloot |
| Siri von Reis, The Love Suicides at Sonezaki | Chuck Leddy |
| Catherine Wagner, Miss America | Cynthia Roth |
| Keith & Rosmarie Waldrop, Ceci n'est pas Keith... | Andrew DuBois |
| John Yau, Borrowed Love Poems | Andrew DuBois |
