Table of Contents

Editor's Note
About the contributors to this issue

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New Directions for Campaign Finance Reform

Going Public
David Donnelly, Janice Fine, and Ellen S. Miller

Replies to ""Going Public"

Modest Reform? Russell Feingold 
Setting Limits Douglas Phelps 
Empower Citizens Zach Polett 
Clean and Constitutional E. Joshua Rosenkranz 
The Patriot Option Bruce Ackerman 
Labor's Role Steve Rosenthal and Amanda Fuchs 
A Plea for Realism Thomas E. Mann 
A Role for Parties Daniel H. Lowenstein   

Donnelly, Fine, and Miller Reply

Elsewhere, things tend, (poem) Claudia Rankine

Relics with Old Blue Medicine-Type Bottle: To X, (poem) Bill Knott

Branagh's Triumph, Alan A. Stone
A brilliant new Hamlet celebrates the awesome joy of Shakespeare's poetry, and its moral depth.

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Poet's Sampler The poems of Stephen Robert Gibson introduced by Marie Howe.

Poems by Stephen Robert Gibson: Notes from an Apartment, To Her, The Revival of Patsy Montana,Robert Desnos

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On the Idea of Europe Lindsay Waters

Second thoughts on the drive for cultural unity, from a once-devout Europhile. 

Tess of the D'Ubervilles (poem) Denise Duhamel and Maureen Seaton

Little Bit Natasha Muldavin-Roemer

From high cotton to the front of the bus.

In Search of the Authentic Other Marjorie Perloff 

The Yasusada "hoax," and what it reveals about the politics of poetic identity. 

A Rival (poem) Rachel Wetzsteon

In Case of Emergency (fiction) Anndee Hochman

Runner-up in our Fourth Annual Short Story Contest 

A Knock on the Door (poem) James Tate

Second Summer (poem) Geoffrey Gordon O'Brien 

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BOOKS

Poetry Reviews

Willard Spiegelman Ghost Shipby Mary Kinzie 
Terese Svoboda Loose Sugarby Brenda Hillman 

Prose Reviews 

Christopher Cahill The Cardiff Team and The Hunter Gracchus and Other Papers on Literature and Art by Guy Davenport 
Andy McCord Nehru: A Tryst with Destinyby Stanley Wolpert 

Poetry MicroReviews

Lynn Melnick Selected Poetry of Yehuda Amichai by Chana Bloch and Stephen Mitchell
Carmela Ciuraru All-American Girl by Robin Becker
Mary Jo Bang Kinky by Denise Duhamel
Mark Wunderlich Venus & Don Juan by Carol Frost
Mark Wunderlich Things That Happen Once by Rodney Jones
Brian Lennon Harping On: Poems 1985-1995 by Carolyn Kizer
Barbara Fischer The Great Wheel by Paul Mariani
Mary Jo Bang At the Gate by Martha Rhodes
Paul Lentz The Life of Poetry by Muriel Rukeyser
Miranda Field The Tulip Sacrament by 'Annah Sobelmen

Prose MicroReviews

Rosemary Pepper Sherlock Holmes and the Red Demon by Larry Millett
Don Eron Robert Penn Warren by Joseph Blotner
Harold Davis Shipwreck with Spectator by Hans Blumenberg
J. S. Chatha The Price of a Dream by David Bornstein
Bert Patterson The Destiny of Natalie X by William Boyd
Joseph Shea Texaco by Patrick Chamoiseau
Sara Kramer Do the Windows Open? by Julie Hecht
Shelley Salamensky Monogamy by Adam Phillips
Shelley Salamensky The Laws of Return by Cameron Stracher