Literary Matters 17.2
(Winter, 2025)

Editor’s Note:
John Matthew SteinhafelSpecial Feature: Poet in the New World
Review
David Havird: Another Day: Poet in the New World by Czesław MiłoszInterview
Chard deNiord: The Immense Call of the Particular: A Conversation with Robert HassInterview
Caitlin Doyle: The Unguarded Territory of Thought: A Conversation with Rita DoveReviews
Emily Grace: Chelsea Dingman’s I, DividedLily Corwin: “I Am The Ghost That You Haunt”: Paul Auster’s Final Novel
Judith Harris: An Appreciation of Ted Kooser
Elijah Perseus Blumov: Cracking the Ode: A New Englishing of Pindar
Poems
M.I. Devine: Chubby CheckerBelinda Rule: Regarding your workplace matter
Tin Fogdall: Try to Wake
Tin Fogdall: Human Math
Elijah Perseus Blumov: Monster Means “to Reveal”
Nicholas Pierce: Crude 8 (“Spearing a cherry with a cocktail straw…”)
Amit Majmudar: The Greatest Generation
Amit Majmudar: A Widower
Shane McCrae: Thinking of the Children
Shane McCrae: A Morning the World I Leave Behind
Amy Bagan: To the Visiting Moon
Jenna Le: Close Reading of a Favorite Poem by Carl Phillips
Morri Creech: A Dream of Noon
Morri Creech: The End
Maggie Greaves: Spring
Translations
A.E. Stallings: Fog (from the Greek of George Seferis)Donald Mace Williams: Before a Summer Rain (from the German of Rainer Maria Rilke)
Essays
Paul Devlin: Saul Bellow’s Unlikely Role in the Development of Ralph Ellison’s Posthumous ReputationJohn Savoie: Homeric Dogma: Of Dogs and Men in the Iliad and Odyssey