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Contributors to this issue include: William Allen, Nin Andrews, Mary Jo Bang, Russell Banks, Mary Behrens, Cathy Bowman, Christopher Cahill, Lan Samantha Chang, Tina Chang, Killarney Clary, Steven Cramer, John D'Agata, Claire Davis, Meredith Drum, David Francis, Daisy Fried, Jonathan Galassi, Douglas Goetsch, Stuart Greenhouse, John Hoppenthaler, Cynthia Huntington, Troy Jollimore, Edmund Keeley, Yusef Komunyakaa, Nicole Krauss, Melissa Kwasny, James Lasdun, Timothy Liu, Cate Marvin, Walt McDonald, Kevin McIlvoy, Melissa Monroe, Emily Moore, Toni Morrison, Robert Nazarene, Joyce Carol Oates, Pedro Ponce, Salvatore Quasimodo, James Richardson, Catie Rosemurgy, J. Allyn Rosser, Stephen Sandy, Lisa Sewell, Faith Shearin, Laurie Sheck, Reginald Shepherd, Terese Svoboda, Bill Sweeney, Paula Tatarunis, Lynne Tillman, Alpay Ulku, Nance Van Winckel, A. J. Verdelle, Liz Waldner, Renée Weiss, Theodore Weiss, Susan Wheeler, Edmund White, Julia Whitty, C. K. Williams, Theodore Worozbyt ... Read more

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BOMB 65, Fall 1998, featuring: Interviews with Ian McKellen by Scott Mendelsohn, Alexander Nehamas by David Carrier, Sam Taylor-Wood by Bruce Ferguson, Mark Richard by J.D. Dolan, Geoffrey O'Brien by Luc Sante, Thomas Nozkowski by Francine Prose, Clifford Ross by Betsy Sussler, and Yusef Komunyakaa and Paul Muldoon. Fiction and poetry by David Ryan, Terese Svoboda, Sheila Kohler, Tom Sleigh, Elisa Albo, Neal Durando, Robert Lopez, Lynn Freed, and Jim Thompson. Art by Rita McBride, Tom Butter, and Y.Z. Kami. ... Read more

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Byron's mature style is wonderfully discursive, ranging from Aristotle through hitting the sack to hitting the bottle sack, while relishing the rhyme on "Aristotle" and "bottle" along he way; he reminds us again and again that poetry can be serious without being solemn, that it might even be fun. ... Read more

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The original and classic Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas is available once again, now with a brilliant new preface by Paul Muldoon.

The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas contains poems that Thomas personally decided best represented his work.The year of its publication, Thomas died from swelling of the brain triggered by excessive drinking. (A piece of New Directions history: it was our founder James Laughlin who identified Thomas' body at the morgue of St. Vincent's Hospital.)

Since its initial publication in 1953, this book has become the definitive edition of the poet's work. Thomas wrote "Prologue" addressed to "my readers, the strangers" — an introduction in verse that was the last poem he would ever write. Also included are classics such as "And Death Shall Have No Dominion," "Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night," and "Fern Hill" that have influenced generations of artists from Bob Dylan (who changed his last name from Zimmerman in honor of the poet), to John Lennon (The Beatles included Thomas' portrait on the cover of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band) ; this collection even appears in the film adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's The Road when it is retrieved from the rubble of a bookshelf. ... Read more

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Turn to "Poetry for Students" to get your research done in record time. Brought to you by Thomson Gale--the world's leading source of literary criticism and analysis--this e-doc contains: author biography; poem summary; poem text (if available); discussion of the work's themes, style, and historical context; a compendium of in-depth critical material; study questions; suggestions for further reading; and much more.

Why choose "Poetry for Students"? Because no other source offers so much in such a compact package. Trust the experts: Thomson Gale--and "Poetry for Students." ... Read more