The New Writers Issue

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Essays

• Memory of Troy, trans. by Richard Pevear   Jean Starobinski   

• Ambiguities, Complexities, Puzzles: A Late Encounter with William Empson   Clara Claiborne Park   

• Søren Kierkegaard: Master of Refraction   Tess Lewis   

Poetry

• Heading for the Shoals   Samuel Hazo   

• Bloodwork: Libération; Baseballade; Casus Belli   R. S. Gwynn   

• From "Il Beato Pellegrino"   Clive Watkins   

• Starlings; Recollection   Margaux Poueymirou   

• Bedtime Story; A Book of Hours; Washashores   Lorna Knowles Blake   

• The Road; Rice; Over the Wall   Jayanta Mahapatra   

• Vacancy; Fitzgerald's Funeral Home   Elizabeth Harrington   

• Doors; Light Bulbs and Soap   Rachel Hadas   

• Park Elementary School; The Photographs in Margaret Byington's Homestead: The Households of a Mill Town   Robert Gibb   

• The Sea Within   Maria Terrone   

Chronicles

• A Century in Brief   Marcia B. Siegel   

• Inner Conflict   Richard Hornby   

• Filial Longing   Bert Cardullo   

• Music Chronicle   Robert S. Clark   

• Gallery Chronicle   Karen Wilkin   

Reviews

• The Perfect Critic   William H. Pritchard   

• Civilized Pleasures   Bruce Bawer   

• Theory's Umpires   Mark Jarman   

• Daniel Dennett and the Brick Wall of Consciousness   Harold Fromm   

• A Clear Conscience and a Good Night's Sleep   Alan Davis   

Comment

• Letter from Helsinki   Emily Grosholz