Harvard Review articles from December 1 2004

Harvard Review archives from December 1 2004

David Smith.
December 1, 2004... David Smith, Untitled, 1964 (#75-64.45). [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] David Smith, David S Do 1-63, 1963 (#73-63.27). Art [c] Estate of David Smith. Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] David Smith, Untitled, 1963....

Two SLABS for starbuck.(Brief Article)(Poem)
December 1, 2004... ReadingYourNew BookByPoolside ImprobableRoar OfTheRaceTrack AndTheBagpipes FromTheWedding InTheGardenWho ItIsIDon'tKnow ThenADragonfly IsAlightOnThis PageAblazeWith SunAndYourPuns AsIfTheseWings CarryYourWords ...

Together/Not Together.(Short Story)
December 1, 2004... The way we would come together sometimes after a fight. Perhaps we were somewhere hiking, and I had angrily gone ahead. Perhaps you were back with the group when the guide pointed out some red macaws. What satisfaction could you find in seeing...

Sunnyside Up.(Short Story)
December 1, 2004... The diner they had agreed upon was closed. She parked outside it to catch her husband when he came, but he didn't come. With the heater off, the car got cold. He was always getting angry at her for being late, yet he was often late himself. The...

Ice Horses.(Brief Article)(Poem)
December 1, 2004... I open the book, a field of ice and glass horses I mark the page where the fence and the trough begin, the book an ice farm where horses break Following words deep into the pasture I have to remember the boot tracks that lead...

Master Heron.(Brief Article)(Poem)
December 1, 2004... St. Marys fishing village, coastal Georgia "Mud Scoggin"--in humble Georgia dialect that hides uncanny mastery each dusk you stalk the boat-dock within moments of the risen tide swelled ripe with squirming...

Under the Aspect of Summer Storms.(Brief Article)(Poem)
December 1, 2004... Under the aspect of summer storms and words that we can hardly bear, to be here has meant always to be carried. But the moth carries wings that summer through the air and make it soft-- a garden. In your aspect, everything folds and...

Ascension Day.(Brief Article)(Poem)
December 1, 2004... In a cafe in Wilton a man with tattooed forearms and head shaped like a toaster argues with the effigy, I swear, of Henry the Second laid out at Fontevraud, a cone-shaped and entirely intact abbey looming high above the Loire. ...

Gunpowder.(Brief Article)(Poem)
December 1, 2004... from the Turkish of Edip Cansever When I go I leave behind sadness. What you live with Is a house uneasy with women, A man who is not at ease with a woman. Loving you this much Is what I live with. Yet sometimes somewhere...

The Lovers of Algeria.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... The Lovers of Algeria by Anouar Benmalek, translated by Joanna Kilmartin, Graywolf Press, 2003, $16.00 paper, ISBN 155597404X. When Algerian novelist Anouar Benmalek's timely and touching The Lovers of Algeria made its debut in the U.K. in...

A Faker's Dozen.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... A Faker's Dozen by Melvin Jules Bukiet, W. W. Norton & Company, 2003, $23.95 cloth, ISBN 0393058166. The eleven stories in Melvin Jules Bukiet's highly imaginative A Faker's Dozen occupy a zone that is cerebral, literary, and packed with...

Crossing the Equator: New and Selected Poems 1972-2004.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... Crossing the Equator: New and Selected Poems 1972-2004 by Nicholas Christopher, Harcourt, 2004, $24.00 cloth, ISBN 0151010951. As a representative member of his generation of New Yorker poets and its commitment to a poetics of description...

Phoebe 2002: An Essay in Verse.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... Phoebe 2002: An Essay in Verse by Jeffery Conway, Lynn Crosbie, and David Trinidad, Turtle Point Press, 2003, $21.95 paper, ISBN 1885586892. First, you have to have seen and enjoyed the movie All About Eve as many times as possible, and...

Shattered Sonnets, Love Cards, and Other Off and Back Handed Importunities.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... Shattered Sonnets, Love Cards, and Other Off and Back Handed Importunities by Olena Kalytiak Davis, Bloomsbury Tin House Books, 2003, $17.95 cloth, ISBN 1582343527. I feel toward this book as I would feel about a brilliant and willful...

New and Selected Poems 1974-2004.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... New and Selected Poems 1974-2004 by Carl Dennis, Penguin Poets, 2004, $18.00 paper, ISBN 0142000833. Poets can present, dramatize, explore, interrogate, explode, complicate, or explain their worlds. Carl Dennis explores and explains. As...

Cascade Experiment: Selected Poems.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... Cascade Experiment: Selected Poems by Alice Fulton, W. W. Norton & Company, 2004, $24.95 cloth, ISBN 0393059286. In "On Writing Cascade Experiment: Selected Poems," Alice Fulton explains that she named this latest collection after a...

Short People.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... Short People by Joshua Furst, Alfred A. Knopf, 2003, $23.00 cloth, ISBN 0375414312. Joshua Furst's debut work of fiction, Short People, is a collection of short stories about the loss of childhood, the surrender of innocence, and the...

Ca Dao Vietnam: Vietnamese Folk Poetry.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... Ca Dao Vietnam: Vietnamese Folk Poetry, translated by John Balaban, Copper Canyon Press, 2003, $15.00 paper, ISBN 1556591861. Love After War (Voices from Vietnam), edited by Wayne Karlin and Ho Anh Thai, Curbstone Press Books, 2003, $19.95...

Frans Masereel: Passionate Journey.(Critical Essay)
December 1, 2004... In the 1926 foreword to the Flemish artist Frans Masereel's "novel without words," Thomas Mann wrote, "today, as it did five hundred years ago, this type of image requires nothing but a piece of peartree-wood, a small knife--and a man's...

Canary in the Coal Mine.(Short Story)
December 1, 2004... "We've all got our little idiosyncrasies." She's being polite. She means "obsession." I want to say "You mean shtick." "Stupid obsession." But I don't speak Yiddish anymore. Only Hebrew. And English to her because her Hebrew isn't good...

Refrigerator.(Brief Article)(Poem)
December 1, 2004... Old white conserv- ative, it grumbles, shudders in its sleep, and dreams of snow, of white bears shaking themselves dry and rolling on their backs. When move it must, it resembles a giant penguin. Soft avocadoes,...

Genre Fiction.(Brief Article)(Poem)
December 1, 2004... I have to admire the mysterialist, how she was able to rig my birth, my home, my education, vacations, dogs, work, heart- breaks and my weak bladder--all that brought me into this old bookstore, to use their facilities and purchase,...

Good Enough.(Brief Article)(Poem)
December 1, 2004... The ivory tower had a garbage chute. Down I went smoothly, silently, albeit the pages of my dissertation-- both written and half-written and unwritten-- a kind of reconstruction of the reign of Grand Prince Boris Fyodorovich...

The Green Square.(Brief Article)(Poem)
December 1, 2004... Framed with timbers primeval, Malevich's green square is an alfalfa field with two diagonal deer and a third, their young, at a slight angle to them and looking aside, while his parents stare at you most attentively, white tails ready...

Nostalgia.(Brief Article)(Poem)
December 1, 2004... Good thing we no longer write poems about a Red Skimmer dragonfly alighting on a poem, ignoring the true autobiographical fact-- nor about anything good that we have done. Autobiography no longer saves. The old masters, they savored...

Justice Shiva Ram Murthy.(Short Story)
December 1, 2004... It is a point of discipline that Manmohan and I meet always on Thursday afternoons to take luncheon together. This is our routine now and it began soon after my arrival in the U.S. five months back: every Thursday without fail I walk from my...

An American Original.(Biography)
December 1, 2004... In the summer of 1989, when Kenneth Burke was ninety-two, I drove to his farmhouse in northwestern New Jersey to pay him a visit. He had bought the original seventy acres back in 1922 with the help of a loan from his father. During that same...

Once Again.(Brief Article)(Poem)
December 1, 2004... Violence and love, image glimpsed in fatigue in those exquisite performances I lose my spirit. Unforecasted snowstorm this life suddenly chaotic. Before waking cold flesh. Then conscious. A short bridge stubbornly reaching for the...

Information.(Brief Article)(Poem)
December 1, 2004... In an emblematic downpour I shift my body, look towards ocean watch fish slow down gasping for air Eyes of my homeland. I am one lost in a crowd. Thirty-eight years of struggle, I join the wheat harvest crew In the dark and...

Notes in Rimbaud's Diary.(Poem)
December 1, 2004... I. (Africa, 1880-1891) I've gotten here sailing by the Red Sea after dealing death to the undesirable one I was 20 years old and one of the foolish virgins Aden is the crater of an extinct volcano without a bit of pasture...

Island Fort.(Short Story)
December 1, 2004... It wasn't the Greeks who had left us this amphitheater. Once it had been a gun emplacement, but now there was no gun, only the shade of Euripides or Aeschylus declaiming as twittering swallows skimmed the green pool filling its center. Some...

Death of a paper wasp.(Short Story)
December 1, 2004... The house has a voice in the deep lull of summer. It seems to drone and whisper in its sleep, answering the soughing of the loblolly pines and the tinkling of wind chimes. At first you think you must be imagining this sound, because it is so...

Pool.(Short Story)
December 1, 2004... The one watercolor of my father is vertical, a glimpse through the door to a random summer, left slightly ajar. Seen from behind, he is caught mid-stride, his body a series of colorful, balanced forms that suggest, rather than depict, a swimmer...

Spines.(Short Story)
December 1, 2004... There was a time when none of the terrible forms of failure had yet appeared. In their place was ordinary radiance that the prism of memory would later dissect into its separate hues. There is a stretch of street forever associated in my...

The Sea Bird.(Brief Article)(Poem)
December 1, 2004... With Mama and Nana and Louis Vuitton, she sailed when she was 7. She sang: Aunt Rhody's old gray goose with Mama, the gayest goose she knew. The century was 7 too. They sailed to France and back, and sailed again, with...

My Servant Ananias.(Brief Article)(Poem)
December 1, 2004... So what happened to him? There were birds cross-referencing Across this cool iron sky, There was the hot road that burned Everybody's feet. Their shoes Were made of leather, Which isn't indifferent; anything Made of animals isn't....

Blind Girl's Litany.(Poem)
December 1, 2004... I am a pale black figure fondling the smallest mountaintops of the world. Yes. A voice comes to one in the dark. (You as you always were.) No one needs ever to say alone aloud. Yet and again. Imagine. A way. A tone. Along the...

Impressionism (near St Laurent sur Mer).(Poem)
December 1, 2004... 1. Under her bonnet the silent little girl in a white frock whose puffed-up sleeves sputter in the little wind, whose also-white pinafore slaps its looping back-bow this way and that against the landscape, stands...

Yearbook.(Short Story)
December 1, 2004... We drew things in the margins of our notebooks. Stones' lips and tongue, The Who, our names in ALL CAPS. We had difficulty closing the n of new words, like totalitarian and narcolepsy. Penmanship betrayed us. We were attentive to our breath,...

Red.(Short Story)
December 1, 2004... You're sitting in the window with your bare legs hanging out, pink nail polish drying on your toenails. Your sister's told you twice already not to let the boys in through the window or to spread your legs too wide and show what's nobody's...

Editorial.(Editorial)
December 1, 2004... We begin our issue with three stories about adolescence, one of which was written by Birgit Larsson, a Harvard undergraduate and three-time-winner of Harvard's Edward Eager Prize for creative writing. This is her first published story. A second...

Sad Little Breathing Machine.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... Sad Little Breathing Machine by Matthea Harvey, Graywolf Press, 2004, $14.00 paper, ISBN 1555973965. Wallace Stevens made beauty from his doubts. In Adagia, he famously summarized both his aesthetics and his philosophy: "The final belief...

Sleeping Late on Judgment Day.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... Sleeping Late on Judgment Day by Jane Mayhall, Alfred A. Knopf, 2004, $22.00 cloth, ISBN 1400041740. Jane Mayhall's first full-length collection of poems, published at the age of eighty-five, is an urgent, aggrieved, cold-eyed, and...

The Poetry of Pablo Neruda.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... The Poetry of Pablo Neruda, edited by Ilan Stavans, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003, $40.00 cloth, ISBN 0374299951. Centennial celebrations of the birth and/or death years of major literary figures are customarily opportunities for...

The Vienna Paradox: A Memoir.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... The Vienna Paradox: A Memoir by Marjorie Perloff, New Directions, 2004, $15.95 paper, ISBN 0811215717. On the cover of The Vienna Paradox is the 1938 passport photo of beaming, pig-tailed Gabriele Mintz, the sweetest vision of European...

Facts for Visitors.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... Facts for Visitors by Srikanth Reddy, University of California Press, 2004, $16.95 paper, ISBN 0520240448. Readers of Srikanth Reddy's impressive first collection might heed his advice: "It may be useful to think of a patterned carpet made...

The Eloquent Short Story: An Anthology of Narrative Styles.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... The Eloquent Short Story: An Anthology of Narrative Styles, edited by Lucy Rosenthal, Persea Books, 2004, $14.95 paper, ISBN 0892552921. Some time ago, while looking in the back pages of the Best American Essays 1999, I discovered that my...

A Burning Interior.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... A Burning Interior by David Shapiro, Overlook Press, 2002, $24.95 cloth, ISBN 1585672718. David Shapiro's new book A Burning Interior gathers together a series of elegies for friends, including his student Richard Horn, composer John Cage,...

Three Philosophical Filmmakers: Hitchcock, Welles, Renoir.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... Three Philosophical Filmmakers: Hitchcock, Welles, Renoir by Irving Singer, MIT Press, 2004, $32.95 cloth, ISBN 0262195011. Building upon his critique of formalist and realist theories of film in Reality Transformed, Irving Singer in this...

The Face: A Novella in Verse.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... The Face: A Novella in Verse by David St. John, Harper Collins, 2004, $24.95 cloth, ISBN 0060593660. If some poems aspire to the condition of objects and others to speech, David St. John's latest book, The Face: A Novella in Verse, offers...

The Poem Behind the Poem: Translating Asian Poetry.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... The Poem Behind the Poem: Translating Asian Poetry, edited by Frank Stewart, Copper Canyon Press, 2004, $18.00 paper, ISBN 1554592000. Although not exactly what was intended, the title of this book may be construed broadly to mean that...

Figment.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... Figment by Rebecca Wolff, W.W. Norton & Company, 2004, $23.95 cloth, ISBN 0393059189. In the Fall/Winter 2003 issue of Fence, editor Max Winter writes about a posting in Web Del Sol that criticizes Fence and its editors for publishing work...

Buffalo Yoga.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... Buffalo Yoga by Charles Wright, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004, $20.00 cloth, ISBN 0374117284. Buffalo Yoga is Charles Wright's thirteenth volume. In recent years Wright's work has become more transparent, a little less hermetic. He now...