lable of Contents DAVID BARBER What Ever Became of the Ballad? (essay) + 1 JULIE SHEEHAN St. Philomena (poem) + 52 MARK POLIZZOTTI He Do the Poets in Different Voices (Ezra Pound) - ERIC ORMSBY Mr. Holgrave, Daguerreotypist (poem) - 72 LAWRENCE LIPKING Visions of Clare (John Clare) « 74 COLETTE INEZ Vows of a Second Language (poem) - 100 SHOMEI TOMATSU Prostitute, Nagoya: 1958 (photograph) - 102 SHOMEI TOMATSU Untitled (Yokosuka) (photograph) - 103 CECILY BROWN Black Painting II (painting) - 104 ED RUSCHA Untitled, Havana, Alabama (painting) - 105 ERIC ORMSBY Passionate Syntax (WB. Yeats) - 106 SHEROD SANTOS Three Poems by Plato - 123 ERIC MURPHY SELING ER Rukeyser Without Commitment (Muriel Rukeyser) - 124 lable of Contents DAVID BARBER What Ever Became of the Ballad? (essay) + 1 JULIE SHEEHAN St. Philomena (poem) + 52 MARK POLIZZOTTI He Do the Poets in Different Voices (Ezra Pound) - ERIC ORMSBY Mr. Holgrave, Daguerreotypist (poem) - 72 LAWRENCE LIPKING Visions of Clare (John Clare) « 74 COLETTE INEZ Vows of a Second Language (poem) - 100 SHOMEI TOMATSU Prostitute, Nagoya: 1958 (photograph) - 102 SHOMEI TOMATSU Untitled (Yokosuka) (photograph) - 103 CECILY BROWN Black Painting II (painting) - 104 ED RUSCHA Untitled, Havana, Alabama (painting) - 105 ERIC ORMSBY Passionate Syntax (WB. Yeats) - 106 SHEROD SANTOS Three Poems by Plato - 123 ERIC MURPHY SELING ER Rukeyser Without Commitment (Muriel Rukeyser) - 124 Table of Contents - EVA BADOWSKA “My Poet’s Junk”: Wistawa Szymborska in Retrospect (essay) + 151 JOHN N. MILLER V-Mail from a Long-Term Legionnaire (poem) - 169 BRENDA WINEAPPLE The Work Undertaken (WG. Sebald) - 170 JOEL BROUWER Comply Whether a Believer or Not (C.D. Wright) - 192 ANN LAUINGER Marvell Noir (poem) - 222 ADAM KIRSCH Power Games (Harold Bloom) « 224 RACHEL WETZSTEON Ruskin’s Whip (poem) - 234 DANIELLE OFRI Maladies, Remedies, and Anthologies: Medicine Taken At Its Word (essay-review) + 235 KARL KIRCHWEY “And the Half-True Rhyme Is Love”: Modern Verse Drama and the Classics (essay-review) + 254 First Books ADAM L. DRESSLER Four for Form (Joseph Harrison, David Yezzi, Spencer Reece, Joan Houlihan) « 283 Travel and Place WILLIAM CHRISTENBERRY Tenant House, Near Havana, Alabama (photograph) - 304 RED GROOMS La Seine, Paris (watercolor) - 305 SHIRIN NESHAT Speechless (photograph) - 306 iv ° Parnassus JULIE HEFFERNAN Self-Portrait as Swamp Queen II (painting) - 307 BEN DOWNING An Introduction - 308 MARIUS KOCIEJOWSKI Zoroasters Children (essay)- 311 GABRIEL LEVIN Through the Desert (poem) - 340 DANIEL HALL The Road Taken (essay) - 343 WILLIAM LOGAN The Jubilee! The Jubilee! (poem) - 360 WILLARD SPIEGELMAN Dallas On (and Off) My Mind (essay) - 365 KARL KIRCHWEY Val Veddasca, The News (poems) - 388 WENDY STEINER Into the Pale (essay) - 391 MARSHA POMERANTZ Acacia (poem) - 430 WILLIAM LOGAN The State with the Prettiest Name (essay) - Contributors - 454 Artwork Credits - 458 Index to Volumes 1-27:2 ~ 459 Cover: REZA “Afghanistan. Frontiére pakistanaise,” 1983, photograph, courtesy of the artist.