Issues
Volume 19, Number 4 / December 2000
Notes & Comments
Features
December 2000
Plutarch & the issue of character
On Plutarch as a moralist and historian.
December 2000
Longfellow & the fate of modern poetry
December 2000
Long walk to nowhere: Nelson Mandela
December 2000
A sideshow of one: Umberto Saba
A consideration of the poet and his work upon the publication of a new translation.
Poems
December 2000
Introduction to Gerard de Nerval‘s “Chimeras”
Translation and introduction by Daniel Mark Epstein
December 2000
Les Chimeres by Gerard de Nerval
Translated by Daniel Mark Epstein
Theater
December 2000
The know nothings
On The Full Monty, by Terrence McNally & David Yazbeck & The Dinner Party, by Neil Simon.
Art
December 2000
Lee Krasner in Brooklyn
On “Lee Krasner,” at the Brooklyn Museam of Art.
December 2000
Gallery chronicle
On “Jean Arp: Line and Form,” at Mitchell-Innes & Nash; “Richard Pousette-Dart: Painting to Paper Black to White,” at Knoedler & Company; “Henri Michaux: Works on Paper,” at the Michael Werner Gallery; “Henri Michaux: Watercolors and Gouaches,” at the Zabriskie Gallery & “Untitled Passages by Henri Michaux,” at The Drawing Center.
Music
December 2000
Onstage politics
On Dead Man Walking, by Jake Heggie, at the San Francisco Opera.
The media
December 2000
Complicity, objectivity & stupidity
Media coverage of the presidential election.
Verse chronicle
December 2000
Author! author!
On Your Name Here, by John Ashbery; Talking Dirty to the Gods, by Yusef Komunyakaa; The Throne of Labdacus & Supernatural Love: Poems 1976-1992 by Gjertrud Schnackenberg; The Weather in Japan, by Michael Longley & Speech! Speech!, by Geoffrey Hill.
Notebook
December 2000
The Padilla affair in retrospect
Upon the death of the exiled Cuban poet.
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