Mentors and Tormentors
Coedited by Sven Birkerts and Askold Melnyczuk
Nonfiction
Cendrars’s Trunk
Nonfiction by Howard Norman
The Cork-Lined Room
Nonfiction by Thomas Bahr
A Deeper Music
Nonfiction by John J. Clayton
Fathers and Son
Nonfiction by Herbert Leibowitz
Influences
Nonfiction by Alfred Alcorn
On Reprinting Golk
Nonfiction by Richard Stern
Being Helped
Nonfiction by William Harmon
Robert Maurer
Nonfiction by David Ghitelman
Follow the Yellow Brick Road: On Teaching Poetry
Nonfiction by Alan Shapiro
Novices
Nonfiction by Clayton Eshleman
Influences
Nonfiction by Joel Oppenheimer
A Note on George Oppen
Nonfiction by Jordan Smith
Influence Among Elders
Nonfiction by Liam Rector
Until We Are Pure Spirit
Nonfiction by Stuart Dischell
Lowell’s Atmosphere
Nonfiction by Michael Milburn
Robert Lowell
Nonfiction by Kathleen Spivack
“Driving to the Interior”: Elizabeth Bishop, Guide
Nonfiction by Eve Shelnutt
Inventory
Nonfiction by Judith Baumel
Visit to a Dead Poet
Nonfiction by Ruth Feldman
Philip Guston
Nonfiction by William Corbett
Ay, Que Vida
Nonfiction by Tom Sleigh
Arshile Gorky’s Embroidered Apron
Nonfiction by Peter Balakian
Ansel Adams
Nonfiction by Mariana Cook
Influential Anxieties
Nonfiction by Donald Hall
Persimmons
Nonfiction by Christopher Benfey
Roman Coins, Scythian Pottery
Nonfiction by Askold Melnyczuk
The Imperfect Teacher
Nonfiction by Steven Cramer
Starting
Nonfiction by Sven Birkerts
Science Fiction
Nonfiction by Thomas Frick
On Influence
Nonfiction by Mark Rudman
Food and Cooking
Nonfiction by Patricia Storace
Chuck Berry, Yes
Nonfiction by Baron Wormser
An Honest Believer
Nonfiction by George Scialabba
Poetry
Sunday at the Dump
Poetry by Alan Shapiro
At the Dump
Poetry by Alan Shapiro
A Version of Paolo and Francesca
Poetry by Peter Balakian
To Arshile Gorky
Poetry by Peter Balakian
64 Panoramic Way
Poetry by Carol Moldaw
Transmarine
Poetry by Carol Moldaw
Playland
Poetry by Mark Doty
Six Thousand Terracotta Men and Horses
Poetry by Mark Doty
Leland W. Smith
Poetry by Robert Polito
Something of Consolation
Poetry by Bruce Smith
Gaea
Poetry by Martin Edmunds
Thirteen Falls
Poetry by Lawrence Siems
Shopping Cart’s Ditty
Poetry by Jane Oliensis
The Debt
Poetry by Joel Oppenheimer
For George Oppen
Poetry by Jordan Smith
Letter Written on a Paper Mountain
Poetry by Robert Louthan
To Amelia Earhart
Poetry by Christopher Davis
Piccolo
Poetry by Dzvinia Orlowsky
Visiting Hours
Poetry by Dzvinia Orlowsky
Where Is Your Judas?
Poetry by Derry O’Sullivan
Reading History
Poetry by Derry O’Sullivan
Mary’s Argument
Poetry by Marie Howe