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Moira Crone: August 2006
In her stories about the tightly cloistered world of women in the small-town south of the fifties and sixties, Moira Crone illustrates what Flannery O'Connor called “the realism of distances”—the ability to see “near things with their extensions of meaning and thus [see] far things close up.”
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Richard Chess: July 2006
The great gift of Richard Chess's poetry is that it reminds us of the earthiness of language—its sounds and shapes, the way it bears the marks of history and geography.
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Madeline DeFrees: June 2006
This is going to sound weird, but bear with us: we think that poet Madeline DeFrees is the reincarnation of Andrew Marvell.
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Jeffrey Overstreet: May 2006
Jeffrey Overstreet is a trespasser. He's constantly moving outside of the borders of what church and culture deem to be ironclad, eternal categories (sacred vs. profane, high culture vs. popular culture)—and he has a knack for bringing people along with him.
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John Poch: April 2006
Among John Poch's many skills as a poet is his ability to craft a long narrative poem and bring it off brilliantly.
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Issue 57
The sculpture of Richard Serra, Franz Wright on the Gospels, interview with Ron Hansen, fiction by Pinckney Benedict
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