Summer 2009, Volume 58, Issue 4
Special Issue: Christianity and Contemporary Poetry
From the Poetry Editor
Articles
Theopoetics: Process and Perspective
L. B. C. Keefe-Perry
The Earth as God’s Body: Incarnation as Communion in the Poetry of Mary Oliver
Todd Davis
The Realism of Helen Pinkerton
James Matthew Wilson
“A single liturgy”: Fanny Howe’s The Wedding Dress
Romana Huk
Special Features
Theology Descending: Franz Wright and Mary Karr in Conversation
Looking Backward, Looking Inward: Scott Cairns and Kathleen Norris in Conversation
Review Essays
The Poetry of Herbert Lomas
Janet McCann
The Commiserating Muse: Four Poets’ Treatments of Suffering and Grief
Chris Willerton
Book Reviews
Geoffrey Hill, Collected Critical Writings; Selected Poems
Emily Taylor Merriman
Robert Siegel, A Pentecost of Finches: New and Selected Poems
Paul J. Willis
Marie Howe, The Kingdom of Ordinary Time
David Shumate, The Floating Bridge
Katherine Bode-Lang
Barbara Crooker, Line Dance: Poems
Julie L. Moore
Marilyn Chandler McEntyre, The Color of Light: Poems on Van Gogh’s Late Paintings
Paul J. Willis, Visiting Home
John Struloeff
Margo Swiss, ed., Poetry as Liturgy: An Anthology by Canadian Poets
Lynn R. Szabo
Brad Davis, Though War Break Out; Song of the Drunkards; No Vile Thing; Like Those Who Dream
Brett Foster
K. A. Hays, Dear Apocalypse
Daniel Story
Poetry
In the Pocket of Your Winter Coat
Man as Walnut
Susanna Childress
Minersville Diner
Marjorie Maddox
Half in the Sun
Theodicy
Todd Davis
So There
The Virgin Spring
Mark Jarman
Why I Live Here
Robert Cording
Sunflower
The Man fron Eden
Jennifer Maier
After the War, the Orchards
Dehiscence
G. C. Waldrep
Sunday Calls
Chard deNiord
Scripture
Night Reading
Franz Wright
Aubade with the Presence of Eternal Irritation and Damnation
Aurora
Peter Cooley
Our Lady of the Milennium, Astoria, New York
Nicole Cooley
In the Congregational Basement
David Wagoner
Aunt Kate Considers the Family Vault
Insufficient, Ineligible Loss
Martha Serpas
Civic Center
The Knock on Your Door Disguised as a Sonnet
Jeanne Murray Walker
Opossum in Daylight
Shanna Powlus Wheeler
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