Focus: Rethinking Classics
Volume 44, Number 3
Fall 2023
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From the Editor
Of All the People by Jeffrey R. Di Leo
Focus: Rethinking Classics
Introduction by Paul Allen Miller
Future-Proofing Humanistic Study by Joy Connolly
Unlearning Limits by Brooke Holmes
Death to Classics by Shane Butler
The Elasticity and Capaciousness of Classics by Barbara K. Gold
Toward a Comparative Classics by Paul Allen Miller
Images and the Discipline of the Classics by Patrice D. Rankine
What Is a Future for Classics? by Erika Zimmermann Damer
Philology No More? Latin and Greek on the Sidelines by Nigel Nicholson
On Reading a Classic by Shadi Bartsch
We Have Never Been Ancient by Joseph Farrell
Debts by Dan-el Padilla Peralta
Interventions
Frederick Luis Aldama interviews Cristina García
Lost and Found
On the Salernitan Questions by Anthony Madrid
Fiction
Edward M. Bury reviews The Suffering of Lesser Mammals by Greg Sanders
Alexander Luft reviews Blue Rhinoceros, or Pedestrian Verses by Jesse Salvo
E-feature
The Poet as Cartographer by E. Ethelbert Miller
Translation
Babel and the Beginning of Translation by Brian O’Keeffe
Poetry
Austin Alexis reviews My Body Lives Like a Threat by Megha Sood
Allan Graubard reviews Divine Blue Light (for John Coltrane) by Will Alexander
N.G. Haiduck reviews This Insubstantial Pageant by Estha Weiner
Laura C. Stevenson reviews Bags and Tools: Poems by Michael Fleming
Thomas C. Marshall reviews Finalists by Rae Armantrout
Joy Gaines-Friedler reviews The Wicking of the Broken Heart by Robin Eichele
Cartography
Marxism and Spatiality by Robert T. Tally Jr.
The Laureates
Arts
Jan Garden Castro reviews Winslow Homer: Crosscurrents by Stephanie L. Herdrich and Sylvia Yount
Printers and Poets
Perishable, Light, Dust, Limited by Charles Alexander
From our Own
Melinda Thomsen reviews It’s About Time by Barry Wallenstein
Scenes
Scenes: Twisted Spoon Press: An Interview with the Publisher
Poetics to Come
Invisible Audiences: The Pathos of Vision in Charles Altieri’s Late Poetics by Daniel T. O’Hara
The Departed
Charles W. Mills: The Self-Incurred Ignorance of White Philosophy by George Yancy
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