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Comment

• Letters from America (trans. by Frederick Brown)   Alexis de Tocqueville   
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Essays

• Compacting Time: Anne Stevenson's Poems of Memory   Emily Grosholz   
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• The Messiah Returned to Haiti, but It Didn't Help: Letter from Port-au-Prince. 1953–2008   Herbert Gold   

Poetry

• Light Up Lanarkshire   Gerry Cambridge   

• Night Watch; I know you are down there . . .   Laurence Barrett   

• Teaching My Sons to Swim in Walden Pond; Paper,; Doppler   Anne Stevenson   

• Jules Vernes above Amiens, 1873; In Thompson Woods with John Gardner, 1970   Floyd Skloot   

• How Many Lives Do You Have?; How It Is on Depot Street   Jeff Hardin   

Chronicles

• At the Galleries   Karen Wilkin   

• Star Vehicles   Richard Hornby   

• The Glimmerglass Season 2009   Erick Neher   

• Prince of Lightness: Merce Cunningham (1919-2009)   Marcia B. Siegel   
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Reviews

• War, Love, Art, and the Limits of Language   Peter Makuck   

• Travelers   David Mason   

• Dinner and a Classic   Tom Wilhelmus   

• Elizabeth Taylor's Otherness   William H. Pritchard   

• Updike's Farewell   Brooke Allen