Literary Matters 16.2
(Winter, 2024)
Interview
Becoming an Instrument of the Poem: A Conversation with Paul Muldoon
Criticism
Andreea Bălan: Meaning, Metaphor & Multivalence
Brian Brodeur: The Flâneur of the Castro: On Randall Mann
Paul Dean: Proust at the Drawing-Board
Judith Harris: A Review of Mary Jo Bang’s A Film in Which I Play Everyone
David Havird: “A Far from Comic Plot”: The Life in Verse of Anthony Hecht
Sunil Iyengar: Purposefully Prosaic: Kampa’s Most Recent Collection
Mary Grace Mangano: Stepping Back to Stare: A Review of Maryann Corbett’s The O in the Air
Lee Oser: William H. Pritchard and the Twilight of Literary Criticism
Poems
Alice Allan: To My Artist FriendsAmy Bagan: Bread Lines
Jason Barry: A Pretext for Painting Flowers
Nathan Blansett: Sundown
Bruce Bond: Lunette 1
Bruce Bond: Lunette 8
Geoffrey Brock: Betrayal
Geoffrey Brock: The Shingle Street Shell Line
Charmaine Cadeau: To have and to hold
Cameron Clark: Centaur
Alfred Corn: Foreseeable Future
Josiah Cox: Heroin
Cally Conan-Davies: A Song for My Granddaughter
Cally Conan-Davies: Mushrooms
William Virgil Davis: Henry James in Central Park
William Virgil Davis: Bruegel’s “Adoration of the Magi” (1564)
John Foy: Not So Compelling
Judith Harris: Last Words
R. Nemo Hill: No More
Sunil Iyengar: At the Gate
Ted Kooser: A Winter Dinner
Charles Martin: On an Infant’s Feet
Charles Martin: Poem Begun from Marginalia Found in a Used Copy of Donald Justice’s Platonic Scripts
David Mason: Things Come to Mind and This is One
Forester McClatchey: Humdrumming
Alfred Nicol: Tell You the Story
Angela Alaimo O’Donnell: The Prophecy
Lee Oser: The Contest
Jacqueline Osherow: Meadow (Everamonte, the Alentejo)
John Poch: The Prodigal’s Brother
Grace Schulman: Thebes, Revisited
Grace Schulman: The Dead
Susan Delaney Spear: Autumn, 2015
Wendy Videlock: In the Turn of a Phrase
David Yezzi: The White-Tailed Deer
Interview
Anthony Hecht, An Epilogue: A Conversation with David Yezzi
Translations
J.D. Scrimgeour with Rosanna Warren: Autumn Exhausts Me (from the Chinese of Ma Yongbo)
John Wall Barger: Greek Fire (from the Italian of Orazio Labbate)
John Wall Barger: Skeletal Angel (from the Italian of Orazio Labbate)
John Wall Barger: Oblivion (from the Italian of Orazio Labbate)
Hot Rocks Feature
Diana Senechal: “Tárá-ráálá-rálárám”: The First Two Albums of Tamás Cseh and Géza Bereményi
Daniel Cross Turner: Saint Andrews, Saint Allman
Keith Flynn: The History of Punk
Keith Flynn: The Ballad of Wendy O.
Lisa Russ Spaar: Cloverfield Friends