Editors’ Note
Lee Smith, Martine Bellen and Bradford Morrow
Sterling Brown: A Southern Man
Ntozake Shange
Chicago Guy: Nelson Algren
John Sayles
My Willa
Maureen Howard
The Emerson Madrigal
Bradford Morrow
For M. Moore
Cole Swensen
Old Poets, Old Poems: Edwin Arlington Robinson
Robert Creeley
Melville and the Art of Saying No
Jim Lewis
Black Reconstruction: Du Bois & the U.S. Struggle for Democracy & Socialism
Amiri Baraka
Panels for Nathanael
Eli Gottlieb
How to Tell a Lie, by Edgar Allan Poe
Joanna Scott
45 Calibrations of Raymond Chandler
Peter Straub
Ezra Pound: A Seereeyus Precursor
Paul Metcalf
On Lillian Hellman
Ellen McLaughlin
Language, Voice, Beat, Energy in the Poetry: Jack Kerouac
Anne Waldman
Edith Wharton: A Mole in the House of the Modern
Lynne Tillman
The Sound of the Fury: Faulkner\'s Aerial Surf
Paul West
Frank O\'Hara: Nothing Personal
Elaine Equi
Langston Hughes: "If You Can't Read, Run Anyhow!"
Kevin Young
Chemical Seuss
Ben Marcus
A Novel of Thank You (for Gertrude Stein)
Carole Maso
Divining Stein
Lisa Shea
Henry James
Mona Simpson
Bob Kaufman: The Footnotes Exploded
Will Alexander
John Cheever and Indirection
Rick Moody
Phrenological Whitman
Nathaniel Mackey
Elizabeth Bishop\'s Prose: Atmospheres of Identity
Sven Birkerts
Gatsby\'s Glasses
Siri Hustvedt
The Visible Man: Ralph Ellison
Quincy Troupe
Shirley Jackson: \"My Mother\'s Grave Is Yellow\"
Dale Peck
Frank Stanford, Of the Mulberry Family: An Arkansas Epilogue
C. D. Wright
The Strange Case of Dr. Eiseley
Phillip Lopate
Henry Miller: Exhibitionist of the Soul
Steve Erickson
Bierce
Mac Wellman
Frederick Prokosch
Lawrence Osborne
To Dickinson
Diane Williams
Robert Duncan & The Right Time
Robert Kelly
Encounters with an Americano Poet: William Carlos Williams
Victor Hernández Cruz
Sylvia\'s Honey
Catherine Bowman
Broaching Difficult Dahlberg
Lydia Davis
For Lorine Niedecker
Norma Cole
Now Let Us Praise James Agee
David Means
Kenneth Patchen: "Hiya, Ken Babe, What's the Bad Word for Today?"
Jonathan Williams
The Visionary Art of Henry David Thoreau
Joyce Carol Oates
Joyful Noise: The Gospel Sound of Henry D. Thoreau
Donald Revell
A number of contemporary authors were invited to pay homage to an American writer, one who made something possible for them, whether that was the act of writing itself, or writing a certain book, or in a particular manner, or living in a way that was consonant with the work of writing. This is an anthology of personal enthusiasms—enthusiasm as Emerson defined it: exuberant and magnanimous—a colloquium Whitman might have seen as a progress of vistas.
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