essays and reviews(selected) In Defense of ClutterJohn Berryman at 100“Just to Watch Them Is to Feel Again”: Film & Poetry, Time & ImageOnce Out of Nature The Soft PipesWallace Shawn’s Late Night reviewsAlbert Camus, Algerian Chronicles (BNR)Alexander Nehamas, On Friendship (BNR)Annie Dillard, The Abundance (BNR)Ange Mlinko, Venice (NYTBR)Campbell McGrath, Nouns & Verbs (NYTBR)Charles Wright, Oblivion Banjo (NYTBR)Galway Kinnell, Collected Poems (BNR)Jim Harrison, Complete Poems (NYTBR)Louise Gluck, Winter Recipes from the Collective (Wash. Post)Susan Sontag, Journals and Notebooks 1964-1980 (BNR)Yusef Komunyakaa, Everyday Mojo Songs of Earth (Wash. Post)