Poetry
PABLO NERUDA Ode to Poetry (translated by Alastair Reid)
PETER DAVISON New Year’s Eve
LINDA PASTAN Elsewhere
CHARLES WRIGHT Self-Portrait
SEAMUS HEANEY Field Work
RICHARD KENNEY The Evolution of the Flightless Bird
CAROL MUSKE Ransom
ANNE STEVENSON Views from Parnassus
ROBERT PACK The Vase
RICHARD EBERHART A Whack at Empson
CHARLES SIMIC Navigator
FREDERICK MORGAN The Path
PHILIP BOOTH The Fall
JOHN ENGELS At Night on the Lake, in the Eye of the Hunter
ROBERT PINSKY from An Explanation of America (a poem for my daughter)
Fiction
ANN BEATTIE Octascope
GEORGE MACKAY BROWN Michael Surfax, Whaler
Nonfiction
ANTHONY HECHT The Riddles of Emily Dickinson
ROBERT FRANCIS Frost as Apple Peeler
KENNETH PITCHFORK Metaphor as Illness: A Meditation on Recent Poetry
NOEL PERRIN Review of Civil Disobedience in America: A Documentary, by David Weber
An Interview with Robert Penn Warren and Eleanor Clark
Contributors’ Notes