Essays

No Going Back

Little relief in sight for millions of displaced Iraqis
Nir Rosen

New Fiction Forum

The Art of Dying

K.J. Bishop

Lastingness

How growing old shapes aesthetic vision
Nicholas Delbanco

On Film

Unbeatable Odds

Werner Herzog's Rescue Dawn
Alan A. Stone

On Poetry

Nyah-Nyah-Nyah-Nyah-Nyah

Frederick Seidel's Ooga-Booga
Celia Bland

Fault Lines

Ben Lerner's Angle of Yaw and Sarah Manguso's Siste Viator
Craig Morgan Teicher

Capital Truths

Giles Goodland's Capital
Geoffrey G. O'Brien

Microreviews

Poems

Your Worship

Val Vinokur

Worse

Mary Jo Bang

The Essence

Mary Jo Bang

Appendix

Edip Cansever

My Life in the Tubes of Survival

Roberto Bolaño

Evening Apparition

James McCorkle

Poet's Sampler: Matts Shears

Introduced by Claudia Keelan