Literary Matters 12.1
(Fall, 2019)
2018 Meringoff Prize Winners:
Fiction:
Non-Fiction:
Caitlin Doyle : The World’s Weight : Artifice and Reality in Richard Wilbur’s Poetry
Poetry:
Criticism:
Ned Balbo: Perennials on Fire: Ekphrastic Transformations in Adam Vines’ Out of Speech
John Wall Barger: The Sublime Cacophony of Ernest Hilbert
Daniel Brown: A Poet Sings the Blues
Rachel Hadas: Translated Objects
Stephen Kampa: Three Varieties of Pleasure: Dean Rader’s Self-Portrait as Wikipedia Entry
Mary Maxwell: Other People’s Children: Kate Daniels’s In the Months of My Son’s Recovery
Paul Rowe: Rejecting Divinity: The Heretical Christ of Milton’s Paradise Regained
Jane Satterfield: Out West With the Ancient of Days: A Review of John Poch’s Texases
Diana Senechal: “A Wild Clarity”: John Wall Barger’s The Mean Game
Poetry:
John Balaban: Prince Buu Hoi’s Watch
Melissa Balmain: To Mom, in the Beyond
John Foy: Coyotes
Nicholas Friedman: Owls
Jane Greer: After the Fall
Rachel Hadas: Riders, Parthenon Frieze
Rachel Hadas: Same Screen
Barbara Hamby: Ode to My Younger Self
Barbara Hamby: Ode to My Prison
Ashley Mace Havird: Dementia: American Pickers
Ashley Mace Havird: Suitcase
David Havird: Vanishing Point
Samuel Hazo: Backyard Zoo
Didi Jackson: Spring Peepers at Flanders Hill
Didi Jackson: The Fox
Stephen Kampa: Upon Perusing a Volume of Systematic Theology
Marcia Karp: The Good Man
Kjerstin Anne Kauffman: Left Wine
Ted Kooser: Driving to Dwight
David Lehman: Hurrahing in Hopkins
William Logan: Agassiz’s Desert Tortoise
A.F. Moritz: Naked to All Interpretation
A.F. Moritz: All One Limit
Lee Oser: Apollo 13
Oliver de la Paz: Diaspora 63
John Poch: Shadow
Hannah Louise Poston: The Hunter
Hannah Louise Poston: Ode to My Hands
Jane Satterfield: On a Copy of Ted Hughes’ New and Selected Inscribed by a Mr. Blake
Jan Schreiber: The Shaft
Elizabeth Spires: My Mother’s Pen
Adrienne Su: Canary
Harry Thomas: Lovework
Will Toedtman: Anniversary Poem
Will Toedtman: Still Life
Peter Vertacnik: The Viewer
Claire Wahmanholm: Four Erasures From Virgil
Translations:
Chris Childers: Sappho 55
Chris Childers: Alcaeus 38a
Chris Childers: Alcaeus 347
Diana Senechal: “Piano” from the Hungarian of Gyula Jenei
Diana Senechal: “Cemetery” from the Hungarian of Gyula Jenei
Diana Senechal: “Madeleine” from the Hungarian of Gyula Jenei
Peter Vertacnik: “Fall” from the German of Rainer Maria Rilke