Monolithos: Poems, 1962 and 1982

reviewed by Elizabeth Knapp

Originally published on October 1, 2000

Among a handful of others, including Louise Glück, Jorie Graham, Carl Phillips and Linda Gregg, Gilbert is one of the foremost contemporary poets on myth.

William Faulkner’s "Vision in Spring"

by Judith L. Sensibar

Originally published on October 1, 2000

Grateful acknowledgment is made to Jill Faulkner Summers for permission to reprint William Faulkner’s “Love Song” and to Judith L. Sensibar for permission to reprint excerpts from her Introduction to Faulkner’s Vision in Spring, Austin: University of Texas Press, 1984. Now out of print.

In London in May 1921, T. S. Eliot began writing the poem [...]

Love Song (from “Vision in Spring”, 1921)

by William Faulkner

Originally published on October 1, 2000

Grateful acknowledgment is made to Jill Faulkner Summers for permission to reprint William Faulkner’s “Love Song” and to Judith L. Sensibar for permission to reprint excerpts from her Introduction to Faulkner’s Vision in Spring, Austin: University of Texas Press, 1984. Now out of print.

Shall I walk, then, through a corridor of profundities
Carefully erect ( I [...]

Out-of-Print Poetry

by Anne Doolittle

Originally published on October 1, 2000

This past March Pif’s editors discussed running an Out-of-Print Books Issue. I said, “Wait a minute. Don’t books go out-of-print for a reason? Doesn’t all of a poet’s best work end up in a volume under a title that begins with Collected, or Selected, or if they’re really good, The Complete?”
I held onto these reservations [...]

Doctor Jack-o’-lantern

by Richard Yates

Originally published on October 1, 2000

ALL Miss Price had been told about the new boy was that he’d spent most of his life in some kind of orphanage, and that the gray-haired “aunt and uncle” with whom he now lived were really foster parents, paid by the Welfare Department of the City of New York. A less dedicated or less [...]

Meet Richard Yates

by Elizabeth Cox

Originally published on October 1, 2000

Richard Yates (1926-1992) was known as the “great writer of the Age of Anxiety,” a man who wrote deftly about lostness. His first novel, Revolutionary Road (1961), was an instant success, a finalist for the National Book Award alongside Catch-22 and The Moviegoer, and equally deserving. A year later, Atlantic-Little, Brown published his first stories [...]

Landover Baptist

reviewed by Tom Hartman

Originally published on October 1, 2000

Landover’s features and news are too often heavy-handed, fraught with low blows and obvious jokes…

Betty Bowers

reviewed by Tom Hartman

Originally published on October 1, 2000

There are some genuine laughs, yes, but also more than enough groaners to make you wonder if it’s all been worthwhile…

Out-of-Print

by Matthew Pakula

Originally published on October 1, 2000

If you haven’t written a bestseller, it doesn’t mean you’re doomed. Matthew Pakula explores the business of keeping books in print.

Out-of-Print: The Vanishing of a Category

by Diane Greco

Originally published on October 1, 2000

What does it mean for a book to be “out-of-print” in a universe composed less of ink on paper than of bits in motion?