A. BOOKS
Ruins
and Empire: The Evolution of a Theme
in Augustan and Romantic Literature (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1977).
Altamira
(Abattoir Editions: University of
Nebraska at Omaha, 1978).
(Co-editor with David L. Lewis), The Automobile and American Culture (University of Michigan Press, 1983; seventh printing, 1994).
The
Flying Machine and Modern Literature (Indiana University Press, U.S.A. , and Macmillan, U.K. , 1986). Electronic edition forthcoming from Indiana University
Press, 2002.
The Three Gardens
(Copper Beech Press, 1987).
(Co-editor with Nicholas
Delbanco), Writers and Their Craft: Short
Stories & Essays on the Narrative (Wayne State University Press, 1991).
(Editor), Seasonal Performances: A Michigan Quarterly Review Reader (University of Michigan Press, 1991).
(Editor), The
Female Body: Figures, Styles, Speculations
(University of Michigan Press: second printing 1992).
The American Poet at
the Movies: A Critical History
(University of Michigan Press, 1994).
(Editor),The
Male Body: Features, Destinies, Exposures
(University of Michigan Press, 1994).
Cold
Reading (Providence: Copper Beech
Press, 1995).
(Coeditor
with Ira Konigsberg), The Movies: Texts, Receptions, Exposures (University of Michigan Press, 1996).
(Coeditor with Robert Chrisman), Robert Hayden: Essays on the Poetry
(University of Michigan Press, 2001).
A Room in California
(oems) (Northwestern University Press, 2005)
(Editor) Writing
Ann Arbor: A Literary Anthology (University of Michigan Press, 2005)
B. ESSAYS
"The London of Hogarth," Mankind, 1, No. 1 (May-June 1967), 30-9, 97.
"Audubon and R. P. Warren: To See and Record All Life," Contemporary Poetry: A Journal
of Criticism, I, No. 2 (Winter 1973), 47-66.
"Familiarity and Contempt: An Essay on the Star-Presence in Film," The Centennial Review, 17, No. 3 (Summer 1973), 256-74.
"The Auburn Syndrome: Change and Loss in 'The Deserted Village' and Wordsworth's Grasmere," ELH: A Journal of English Literary History, 40, No. 3 (Fall 1973), 352-71.
"John Barth," Encyclopedia of World Literature in the 20th Century, ed. Frederick
Ungar and Lina Maniero (New York: Ungar
Publishing Co. , 1975), IV, 35-39. Revised
and expanded entry, 1980.
"Immortal Longings and
'The Ruines of Time'", Journal of English and Germanic Philology, 75, No. 4 (Fall 1976), 337-51.
"Wordsworth and Snyder: The Primitivist and His Problem of Self-Definition," The Centennial Review, 21, No. 1 (Winter
1977), 75-86.
"'The End of All Our
Exploring': The Moon Landing and American Poetry," Michigan Quarterly Review, 18, No. 2 (Spring
1979), 192-217.
'Kitty Hawk' and the Question
of American Destiny," The Iowa
Review, 9, No. 1 (Winter 1978), 41-9.
Reprinted in part in Contemporary
Literary Criticism, Vol. 13, 1980.
"The Impact of Pompeii
on the Literary Imagination," The Centennial Review, 23, No. 3 (Summer 1979), 227-41.
"Robert Hayden:
A Poet Who Sang to Humanity," Detroit
(Sunday magazine in Detroit Free Press), 20 April 1980, 22-23. Revised and
expanded version reprinted in Obsidian, Robert Hayden issue, ed. Michael S. Harper, 8, No.11 (Spring 1981), 42-6.
"Lindbergh in 1927:
The Response of Poets to the Poem of Fact," Prospects V (New York: Burt
Franklyn, 1980), 293-314.
"The Automobile and
American Poetry," Michigan Quarterly Review, 19, No. 4 and
20, No. 1 (Fall 1980 / Winter 1981), 619-38.
"The American Poet at
the Movies: A Life and Times," The Centennial Review, 24, No. 4 (Fall 1980), 432-52.
"The Image of Detroit
in Twentieth Century Literature," Michigan
Quarterly Review, 25, No. 2 (Spring 1986), 269-291.
"The
Fuhrer Bunker and the New Discourse about Nazism," The Southern Review, 24, No. 1 (Winter 1988), 100-114.
"The Day of the Locust
as a Rite of Passage," North Dakota Quarterly, 56, No. 3 (Summer
1988), 18-29.
Introductory essay on Mark
Harris and Vachel Lindsay, for Mark Harris, City
of Discontent, reprint edition (University of Illinois Press, 1992), ix-xxiii.
"'Mama How Come Black
Men Don't Get to be Heroes?': Black
Poets and the Movies," The Iowa Review, 23. No. 3 (Fall 1993), 110-31.
"The Fiction of Arthur
Miller," Michigan Quarterly Review, 37, No. 4 (Fall 1998), 725-45.
"'Coruscating Glamour':
Lynda Hull and the Movies," The
Iowa Review, 29, No. 1 (Spring 1999), 141-153.
"The
Greatest Poem in the World" [on Robert Hayden's "Perseus"], The Southern Review, 35, No. 4 (Autumn
1999), 774-88.
"City of Poems:
The Lyric Voice in Los Angeles since 1990," The Misread City: New Literary
Los Angeles, ed. Scott Timberg and Dana Gioia (Los Angeles: Red Hen Press, 2003), 124-42.
"'The
Imagination Problem': Winfield Townsley Scott and the American Wars," War Literature & the Arts, 14, Nos 1 & 2 (Fall 2003), 59-77.
"The Airplane and
American Literature", in The Airplane in American Culture, ed. Dominick A. Pisano, (Ann Arbor: The University of MIchigan Press, 2003), 219-249.
"The Misfits"
and American Culture," in Arthur Miller's America: Theatre & Culture
in a Time of Change, ed. Enoch Brater (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan
Press, 2005), 109-134.
"Finishing the
Picture: Arthur Miller, 1915-2005", in Michigan Quarterly Review
44, no. 2 (Spring 2005), 209-214.
"Madame Nhu, Woman
and Warrior", in Callaloo 28, no. 3 (Summer 2005) [special issue
on Yusef Komunvakaa], 764-770.
Forthcoming: a review-essay
on Josip Novakovich for Salmagundi
C. REPRINTS OF SCHOLARLY WRITING
"The Moon Landing and
Modern Literature," Readings in Technology and Literature. Volume III:
The Twentieth Century, ed. James R. Hansen and William F. Trimble
(Ginn Press, 1992), 81-92.
"The
Fuhrer Bunker and the New Discourse about Nazism," The Poetry of W. D. Snodgrass: Everything
Human, ed. Stephen Haven (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1993), 240-55.
"An American Millennium:
Vachel Lindsay and the Poetics of Stargazing," Screening the Past: An Electronic
Journal of Visual Media and History, Latrobe University, Australia, uploaded
28 May 1998.
"The
Greatest Poem in the World," Robert
Hayden: Essays on the Poetry, coedited by Laurence
Goldstein and Robert Chrisman (University of Michigan Press, 2001), 256-71.
"The Audience Vanishes: Frank O'Hara and the Mythos of Decline," Poetry Criticism, Volume
45, ed. Allison Marion (Detroit: Gale Group, 2003) in print and web-based editions.
D. BOOK REVIEWS
1966-1976. Some fifty reviews, 500-1000 words each, for The
Providence Sunday Journal (Providence, RI)
Edwin Honig, Spring
Journal. The Nation, 208 (19 May 1969), 640-2.
James Schevill, Violence
and Glory. The Nation, 209 (13 October 1969), 386-7.
Morton D. Paley, Energy
and the Imagination. Brown Alumni Monthly, 71, No. 5, 33.
David Ignatow, Poems
1934-1969 and James Wright, Collected
Poems. Michigan Quarterly Review, 11, No. 3 (Summer 1972), 214-7. Reprinted
in part in Contemporary Literary Criticism, ed. Carolyn Riley (Detroit: Gale Research Co. , 1975), III, 541.
1974-1976.
Some twelve reviews of contemporary poetry for Margins.
Edwin Honig, Four
Springs and shake a spear with me, john berryman. Michigan Quarterly Review, 13, No. 4 (Fall 1974), 427-30.
Adrienne Rich, Poems
1950-1974. Michigan Quarterly Review, 15, No. 3 (Summer 1976), 360-66. Reprinted in part in Contemporary Literary Criticism (Detroit: Gale Research Co. , 1977), VII.
S. Foster Damon, Selected
Poems. Michigan Quarterly Review, 16, No. 3 (Summer 1977), 323-29.
Michael Cooke, The
Romantic Will. Blake: An Illustrated Quarterly, 2, No 4 (Spring 1978), 284-7.
Beth Darlington (ed.), William
Wordsworth, Home at Grasmere. Criticism, 20, No. 4 (Fall 1978), 429-31.
Frederick Morgan, Poems
of Two Worlds. Ontario Review No. 8 (Spring-Summer 1978), 103-5.
George Dekker, Coleridge
and the Literature of Sensibility and Wallace Jackson, The Probable and the Marvelous. The
Wordsworth Circle, 10, No. 3 (Summer 1979), 256-8.
Donald Hall (ed.), The
Oxford Book of American Literary Anecdotes. The Alternative Review, 1, No. 2 (October 1981), 22-3.
Bill Henderson (ed.), The
Pushcart Prize, Volume VI. The Alternative Review, 1, No. 4 (December
1981), 22-3.
Lloyd Schwartz and Sybil
P. Estes (eds.), Elizabeth Bishop and Her Art. Michigan
Academician, 16, No. 1 (Fall 1983), 133-5.
Diane Ackerman, Lady
Faustus. Parnassus: Poetry in Review, Spring/Summer/Fall/Winter 1985 (Special issue, "A Celebration of Women
in Poetry"), 446-59.
Elizabeth McKinsey, Niagara
Falls: Icon of the American Sublime. The Centennial Review, 30, No. 3 (Summer 1986), 428-9.
"New Histories of Air
and Space" (four books on flight). Michigan Quarterly Review, 25, No. 4 (Fall 1986), 736-49.
"Imagining the End"
(three books on apocalypse). Michigan Quarterly Review, 26, No. 3 (Summer 1987), 578-91.
Bruce Weigl and T. R. Hummer
(eds. ), The Imagination as Glory: The
Poetry of James Dickey. The Journal
of Aesthetic Education, 22, No. 2 (Summer 1988), 118-20.
"Looking Back at the
Machine Age" (three books on the machine and modernism).
Michigan Quarterly Review, 27, No. 4 (Fall
1988), 644-56.
Lisa M. Steinman, Made
in America: Science, Technology and
American Modernist Poets. Journal
of English and Germanic Philology, 88, No. 1 (January 1989), 148-51.
"The Spectacles of Edward
Field" (on Field, Selected Poems). Parnassus: Poetry in Review, 15, No. 1 (Spring 1989), 240-55.
"A Quartet of Contemporary
Poetries" (four books of criticism on contemporary poetry).
The Iowa Review, 19, No. 3 (Fall 1989), 159-73.
"The Wings of War"
(four books on aerial warfare). Michigan Quarterly Review, 29, No. 3 (Summer 1990), 472-83.
"Looking for Authenticity
in Los Angeles" (volumes of poetry by Charles Gullans, Wanda Coleman, and Amy Gerstler). Michigan
Quarterly Review, 30, No. 4 (Fall 1991), 717-31.
"Keeping a Distance
from the Movies" (three books on the film culture). Michigan
Quarterly Review, 31, No. 3 (Summer 1992), 442-51.
"Film and Family History"
(three books on the movies). Michigan
Quarterly Review, 32, No. 2 (Spring 1993), 285-95.
"The Spectacle of His
Body" (five books on masculinity and the male body in film), Michigan
Quarterly Review, 34, No. 4 (Fall 1995), 681-702.
"The Harvard Advocate"
(three books of prose by Donald Hall), Michigan
Quarterly Review, 35, No. 4 (Fall 1996), 745-54. Reprinted in Contemporary
Literary Criticism, Volume 151 (Farmington Hills, MI: The Gale Group, 2002).
"The Legacy of Hiroshima"
(three books about nuclear culture), Michigan
Quarterly Review, 38, No. 3 (Summer 1999), 471-86.
"Nostalgia for the Flyer"
(three books about early aviation), Michigan
Quarterly Review, 40, No. 4 (Fall 2001), 749-62.
"Arguing (What Else?)
About Jewish-American Poetry" (four books on the topic), Michigan
Quarterly Review, 41, No. 4 (Fall 2002), 701-20.
"Our Faulkner, Ourselves", (three books about Faulkner), Michigan Quarterly Review, 42, no. 4 (Fall 2003), 724-737.
E. POETRY
"Act
of Creation," Trace #61 (Summer 1966), 124.
"Sermon by Mr. Blake," Blake Newsletter, I, No. 3 (December 1967), 5. Reprinted in A Birthday Garland for S. Foster Damon (Providence, 1968), 27.
"Maytime," The
Beloit Poetry Journal, XVIII (Summer 1968), 29. Reprinted in Pocket Poetry
Monthly, 1, No. 2 (July 1974), 7.
"South American Sequence," Southern
Poetry Review, 8 (Spring 1968), 26-8.
"On the Ecuador Coast," Intro #1, ed. R. V. Cassill (New York: Bantam Books, 1968), 204-6.
"Aubade" and "H. P. Lovecraft," Trace #69 (1968-9), 406-7.
Chapbook:
Antipodes (Providence: The Hellcoal Press, 1969).
"Tutorial," Blake
Studies, 2, No. 2 (Spring 1970), 36.
"Im
Anfang War die Tat" and "Riddance from the Sixties," Intro #3, ed. R. V. Cassill (New York:
McCall Publishing Co. , 1970), 144-5.
"Drive in Spring"
and "To Wallace Stevens from Bali," Anon
(1971), 70-1.
"Found Poem," The New York Quarterly, #9 (Winter 1972), 79.
"Philosophy Stacks"
and "Waiting for Dawn in Nepal," Anon
(1972), 27-9.
Chapbook:
Riddance from the Sixties (Ann Arbor:
Deodand Press, 1972).
"Mine Disaster," Anon (1973), 89-90.
Chapbook:
The Lerner Poems (Ann Arbor: Deodand Press, 1972).
"Meeting
Wordsworth," Michigan Quarterly Review, 13, No. 2 (Summer 1974), 291.
"All
Matter Has Sense," The Providence Review #23 (Spring 1975), 3.
"Altamira," Michigan
Quarterly Review, 14, No. 2 (Spring 1975), 211-5.
"In Person: Bette
Davis," Literature/Film Quarterly, 4, no. 3, (Summer 1976), 287-8.
"Lerner Meets Bella
Darvi," The Mississippi Review, 5, no. 3, (Fall 1976), 32.
"Anniversary," Green House, 1, No. 2 (Winter 1977), 30-1.
"Amazon River Solitaries," Ann Arbor Review #27 (1977), 15-7.
"The World Overtaken
By Ferns," Ontario Review #7 (Fall/Winter 1978), 87.
"Fantasie (after Nerval)," Rising Star, January 1978, 40.
"Still Stepping Westward," Ann Arbor Review #28 (1978), 8-9.
"Santa Monica," Rising Star, April 1978, 30.
"A Masterpiece Apparently
Destroyed" and "Reunion at 35," The
Southern Review, 15, No. 3 (Summer 1979), 643-5.
"By Her Own Hand"
and "Africian Cul-de-Sac," Serpent's
Egg (La Jolla: Moonlight Publications, 1979), unpaginated.
"Long Beach, Long Neglected"
and "In the San Clemente Hills after the Jonestown Murders," Ontario Review #14 (Spring-Summer 1981), 51-3.
"Interview in a Ceiling," December (Special R. V. Cassill issue), 23, Nos. 1-2 (1981), 51-3.
"Moon Landing"
and "Prepossession," MSS, Fall/Winter 1981, 157-62. "Moon
Landing" reprinted in Research News, University of Michigan, 39, No. 6-8, (June-August 1988), 4-6.
"Race Against Time"
and "Halfway Up the Mountain," The
Alternative Review, 1, No. 1 (September 1981), 11-12.
"The Three Musketeers, Illustrated Edition," The Southern Review, 18, No. 1 (January
1982), 166-8.
"A Film Review in the
Form of a Poem," Literature/Film Quarterly, 11, No. 2 (1983), 138-9.
"Personal History," Ploughshares, 10, No. 1 (1984), Special Poetry Issue edited by Seamus
Heaney, 71-2.
"The Three Gardens," SITES XII (1984), 43-5.
"Homesick in Los Angeles," Poetry, 146, No. 2 (May 1985), 73.
"Signal Hill," The Blue Ox Review #2 (Winter 1985), 159-60.
"Vertigo:
A Sequel," "German Masters of the Nineteenth Century: Caspar David Friedrich," "Domain," and "A Letter to Andrew and Jonathan" (Special portfolio with photo
of author), Ontario Review #23 (Fall/Winter
1985-86), 59-70.
"Death Charm, Found
in a River," Boulevard, 2, No. 3 (Fall 1987), 171.
"I Doubled for Orson
Welles," Literature/Film Quarterly, 16, No. 2 (1988), 141-2.
"The Silent Movie Theatre"
and "Firmament on High," The
Iowa Review, 18, No. 2, (Spring/Summer 1988), 58-63.
"Posies," Poetry, 153, No. 6 (March 1989), 329.
"The Turbulent Goldstein
Problem," Ontario Review #30 (Spring/Summer 1989), 103-4.
"Elderly Surfer," Poetry, 154, No. 5 (August 1989), 270.
"London," The
Southern Review, 25, No. 3 (Summer 1989), 611-12.
"German Masters of
the Nineteenth Century: Karl Blechen," A Garland for Harry Duncan (Austin: W. Thomas Taylor, 1989), 34-5.
"Thrift Shop, Ypsilanti," Indiana Review, 13, No. 3 (Fall 1990), 24-25.
"In Memory of J. T. "
and "Lost Friend," Ontario
Review, #34 (Spring/Summer 1991), 42-5.
"An Unromantic Story," Poet & Critic, 22, No. 3 (Spring 1991), 6-7.
"Summer Camp Fund"
and "A Broken Coriolan," River
Styx, No. 34 (Fall 1991), 42-4.
"Folkestone, 1917," Boulevard, 6, Nos. 2/3 (Fall 1991), 163.
"Is Reality One or
Many?" Salmagundi, No. 92 (Fall 1991), 197-99. A translation into Spanish
by Julio Trujillo appears in Letras
Libres (Mexico City), 4, No. 46 (October 2002), 60.
"Preschool Visitation," The Iowa Review, 22, No. 1 (Winter 1992), 78-80.
"Conceptual Art," ONTHEBUS, 4, No. 2 and 5, No. 1 (Fall 1992), 100.
"Cold Reading," The Texas Review, 13, Nos. 1 & 2 (Spring/Summer 1992), 89-92.
"For John Espey," Red Jade Cups: John Espey at Eighty
(Los Angeles: Symposium Press, 1993), 25.
"The Sports Complex," Agni 37 (Spring 1993), 300-1. Reprinted
in Michigan Quarterly Review, 33, No. 1 (Winter 1994), 146-7.
"Best-Selling Author," Hubbub, 11, No. 1 (Fall 1993), 15.
"Permissive Entry:
A Sermon on Fame," Tampa Review, 8 (Spring 1994), 22-3.
"Subterranean," The Louisville Review 37/38 (Fall
1994/ Spring 1995), 49-50.
"Watching Mr. Moto's Last Warning," B City
10 (special issue of movie poems), Fall 1995, 32.
"Who Am I?" and
"Eutopia," Ontario Review No. 44 (Spring/Summer 1996), 69-71.
"Millennium's End"
and "To Radcliffe Squires," The
Iowa Review, 26, No. 1 (Spring 1996), 55-61.
"August," Connecticut
Review, 28, No. 2 (Fall 1996), 40.
"Romanian Stamps," ON THE BUS #14, 6, No. 2 (Summer 1997), 107.
"Dragon Lady," Ontario Review 49 (Fall 1998), 105-8.
"Battery," The
Evansville Review, 9, (1999), 9.
"Through a Glass Darkly"
and "Untimeliness," TriQuarterly
105 (Spring/Summer 1999), 7-12.
"Scrapbooks," Ontario
Review 51 (Fall 1999), 128-9.
"Rock Star," The
Formalist 10, #2 (Fall 1999), 64.
"The Celebrity," Salmagundi 124-5 (Fall 1999/Winter
2000), 158-60.
"A Room in California, 1954," Michigan Quarterly Review 39, No. 2 (Spring 2000), 330-2.
"On Rereading 'Ode
to Duty'", Boulevard 45, 15, No. 3 (2000), 161.
"Meeting the Graiae"
and "Isaac and Mae," The Iowa Review 30, No. 1 (2000), 56-61.
"Paris in the Twenties, "
Sundog 20, No. 2 (Fall 2000), 24.
"Old Mortality, " Washington
Square 7 (Winter 2001), 81.
"What to Put on Walls, " good
foot: a poetry magazine 1 (Spring 2001), 76.
"Languor (after Verlaine), "
The Formalist 12, No. 2 (Fall 2001), 16.
"Memorial in a Minor
Key," The Evansville Review 12 (2002), 137.
"Nocturnes" and
"Consummation," Margie: The
American Journal of Poetry 1 (2002), 95-97.
"War Babies, Sixty
Years On," Poetry, 181, No. 1 (October-November 2002), 28-29.
"English Drawings
and Watercolors 1550-1850," Poetry, 182, no. 6 (September
2003), 339-340.
"The Demon of Noontide," The Formalist, 14, no. 2 (2003), 65.
"Meetings with
Prester John," TriQuarterly, 117 (Fall 2003), 50-60.
"The Harlot Robed
in War," War, Literature and the Arts, 15, nos 1 & 2 (2003), 177-78.
"Epistale to a
Longtime Friend," Southwest Review, 89, nos. 2 & 3 (2004), 226-28.
"People Know More
Than You Ever Think They Do," Margie: The American Journal of Poetry, V (2006), 150.
"Merciless," The Iowa Review, 36, No. 3 (Winter 2006/7), 186-88.
F. POEMS IN BOOKS
"Homesick in Los Angeles"
in Rereading America: Cultural Contexts for Critical Thinking and Writing, ed. Gary
Columbo, Robert Cullen, and Bonnie Lisle (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1989), 605-7.
"The Silent Movie Theatre"
in Roth's American Poetry Annual 1989 (New
York: Roth Publishing Company, 1990).
"Personal History"
in A New Geography of Poets, ed. Edward Field, Gerald Locklin, and Charles
Stetler (The University of Arkansas Press, 1992), 59-60.
"A Film Review in the
Form of a Poem," "In Person: Bette
Davis," and "Vertigo: A
Sequel" in The Faber Book of Movie Verse, ed. Phillip
French and Ken Wlaschin (London: Faber & Faber, 1993), 122, 195, 315.
"The Sports Complex," in The Male Body: Features, Destinies, Exposures, ed. Laurence Goldstein (University of Michigan Press, 1994), 119-120.
"Permissive Entry:
A Sermon on Fame," in The Best American Poetry 1995, ed. Richard
Howard (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995), 88-90.
"Moon Landing"
in A Year in Poetry, ed. Thomas E. Foster and Elizabeth C. Guthrie (New
York: Crown Publishers, 1995), 256-7.
"In Person:
Bette Davis," in Lights, Camera, Poetry!: American Movie Poems, ed. Jason Shinder (Harcourt, Brace, 1996), 114-5.
"Vertigo," in
The Movies:
Texts, Receptions, Exposures, Laurence Goldstein and Ira Konigsberg, eds. , (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1996), 332.
"Nydia, the Blind Flower
Girl of Pompeii," in A Visit to the Gallery, ed. Richard Tillinghast
(Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan
Museum of Art, 1997), 43-4.
"Aubade" and "Eros
in Long Beach," in The Book of Love, edited by Diane Ackerman
and Jeanne Mackin (W. W. Norton, 1998), 421-2.
"In Praise of Entered
from the Sun," in George Garrett:
The Elizabethan Trilogy, ed. Brooke Horvath and Irving Malin (Texas
Review Press, 1998), 120-3.
"Meeting the Graiae, " in
The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror, 14th edition, ed. Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling (New York:
St. Martin’s Press, 2001), 113-14.
"Is Reality One or
Many," in Line Drives: 100 Contemporary
Baseball Poems, ed. Brooke Horvath and Tim Wiles (Carbondale: Southern Illinois
University Press, 2002), 85-86.
"A Room in California, 1954," in Secret Spaces of Childhood, ed. Elizabeth Goodenough
(Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2003), 121-23.
"The Celebrity," in Jewish in America, ed. Sara Blair and Jonathan Freedman (Ann
Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2004), 99-101.
"Firmament on High," in On the Wing: American Poems of Air and Space Flight, ed. Karen Yelena
Olsen (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2005), 200.
"Ann Arbor Solitary," Writing Ann Arbor: A Literary Anthology, ed. Laurence Goldstein (Ann
Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2005). 231-32.
G. FICTION
"A
Day of Traveling," Coraddi #25 (Spring 1968), 40-3.
"Revisiting," The Sewanee Review, 78, No. 3 (Summer 1970), 488-505.
"The Dragon Slayers," The Providence Review #16 (Summer 1974), 10-11.
"The Kogi Necklace," The Iowa Review, 13, No. 2 (Spring 1982), 49-64.
"Keeper of the Flame," The Texas Review, 7, Nos. 1-2 (Spring/Summer 1986), 6-13.
H. MISCELLANEOUS
"On Experimental Writing," A Critical (Ninth) Assembling, ed. Richard Kostelanetz (New York:
Assembling Press, 1979), unpaginated (2 page commentary).
Contribution to "Poetry, Politics, and Publishing: A Literary-Editors
Roundtable," Poetry East, No. 9-10 (Winter 1982/Spring 1983), 57-8.
"A Letter from the
Editor," Riverstates Review of Young Writers, 2
(Summer 1986), 13-7.
Op-Ed commentary on the
aspiration to fly, The Los Angeles Times (and Syndicate), June 26, 1986, II, 5.
Op-Ed commentary on royalty, The Los Angeles Times (and Syndicate), July 25, 1986, II, 5.
Op-Ed commentary on Hitler, The Los Angeles Times (and Syndicate), April 5, 1987, II, 5.
Op-Ed commentary on AIDS, Detroit Free Press, July 21, 1987, 15A.
Op-Ed commentary on Lee
Iacocca, The Los Angeles Times (and Syndicate), September 7, 1987, II, 5.
Op-Ed commentary on violence
in the media, The Los Angeles Times (and Syndicate), May 14, 1988, II, 8.
Op-Ed commentary on nuclear
war, Houston Chronicle, May 23, 1988, Sec. 4, 7.
Op-Ed commentary on principle
of accountability, The Los Angeles Times (and Syndicate), September 10, 1988, II, 5.
Op-Ed commentary on high-rise
architecture, The Los Angeles Times (and Syndicate), December 24, 1988, II, 3.
Contribution to Fiction
Symposium, The Cream City Review, 13, No. 1 (Winter 1989), 20-1.
Op-Ed commentary on French
Revolution bicentennial, The Los Angeles Times (and Syndicate), July 4, 1989, II, 7.
Op-Ed commentary on the
moon landing, The Los Angeles Times (and Syndicate), July 19, 1989, II, 7.
Op-Ed commentary on the
pathology of perfect health, The Los Angeles Times (and Syndicate), September 1, 1990, B, 7.
"How to tell when a
manuscript will be rejected before reading the first word," Poets
& Writers, 18, No. 6 (November/December 1990).
Op-Ed commentary on the
value of controversial opinions, The New York Times, May 3, 1991, A31.
Op-Ed commentary on UFOs, The Los Angeles Times (and Syndicate), May 22, 1992, B, 7.
Op-Ed commentary on baseball
cards and acquisitiveness, The New York Times, June 24, 1992, A15.
Op-Ed commentary on the
male body and masculinity, The Los Angeles Times (and Syndicate), July 4, 1993, M5.
"Remembering Jane Kenyon," Xylem, Winter 1996.
Responses to questions in
"Editor's Forum," Journal of the Poetry Society of America
49 (Spring 1997), 16-22.
Letter about poetry in William
Safire, Watching My Language: Adventures
in the Word Trade (New York: Random House, 1997), 203-4.
"Poets on the Screen," in Inside Borders, April 1998, 26.
"Meeting Stan Laurel," in The Laurel and Hardy Magazine, 5, No. 3 (Fall 1998), 23-7.
"Introduction"
to Lyn Coffin, Crystals of the Unforeseen: A
Book of Women's Voices (Austin, TX: Plain
View Press, 1999), 5-7.
Commentary on "The
Horses of Achilles," ". . . what these Ithakas mean. ":
Readings in Cavafy, edited by Artemis Leontis, Lauren E. Talalay, and Keith Taylor (Athens: Hellenic Literary and Historical Archive, 2002), 44-45.
"Thinking about the
Unthinkable, Again," September 11, 2001: American Writers Respond, ed. William Heyen
(Silver Springs, MD. : Etruscan Press, 2002), 153-6.
"Michigan Quarterly
Review," LSA Magazine, Fall 2002, 60.
"Staying in Print:
the Romance of the Literary Magazine," Chronicle of Higher Education (The
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