Here’s What’s Coming in Parnassus’ Volume 31, Nos. 1 & 2, Spring 2009

Christopher Bakken on Picking Olives on a Rugged Greek Island
Devin Johnston's “Arcadian Notes”: A Visit to Ian Hamilton Finlay’s Scottish Garden
Peter McCarey's “Seven Rhymes”: The Marriage of Visual Images and Words
Joy Ladin's “The Velveteen Woman”
Catherine Madsen's “Go Above Your Nerve”: Emily Dickinson & Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Arthur Schnitzler's Aphorisms on Love, Translated by Iain Bamforth
Eric Ormsby's “Ancient Chills,” Elizabeth Bishop’s Poetry
Roger Gilbert's “Seidel’s Shtick,” The Poems of Frederick Seidel
Wes Davis on Robert Hass’s Poetry
Mark Scroggins on Peter Gizzi and Rae Armantrout
Daniel Albright's “Heine and the Composers”
Matthew Gurewitsch on Stephen Sondheim
Eric Murphy Selinger's “Men of Galilee,” The Poetry of Mahmoud Darwish, Taha Muhammad Ali, and Samih al-Qasim
Anna Journey's “Lost Vocabularies: On Contemporary Elegy”
Tributes to Isaac Meyers and Tom Disch

In addition, we will publish Poems by Jeremy Axelrod, Christopher Bakken, Iain Bamforth, Becca, Star Black, Diann Blakely, Lucie Brock-Broido, Dick Davis, Rita Dove, Albert Goldbarth, Ernest Hilbert, Karl Kirchwey, Margot Lurie, John Matthias, Molly McQuade, and Julie Sheehan