Eight or nine ways of looking at a river
The brain that hears the music
Kinnell's legacy: on "The avenue bearing the initial of Christ into the new world"
Lowell on Berryman on Lowell
The hole in the middle of the book: absence and presence in biography
Staring into the abyss: Robert Pack's later poems
Hart Crane: "Clenched beaks coughing for the surge again"
Skyscraper soup: two views of twenties New York
Reconfiguring flame: the art of biography
III. God and the imagination
Summoning the dead: politics and the sublime in contemporary English poetry
The intensest rendezvous: on the poems of John of the Cross
The ineffability of what counts
Toward a sacramental language
"The unshapeable shock night": pain, suffering, and the redemptive imagination.
