Joseph Campana is a poet and professor of literature at Rice University. He is the author of two collections of poetry, The Book of Faces (Graywolf, 2005) and the forthcoming Natural Selections, and a forthcoming scholarly study The Pain of Reformation: Spenser, Vulnerability, and the Ethics of Masculinity (Fordham, 2012).
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
Thomas Hart Benton and the Contradictions of Populism
WHAT RELATIONSHIP TO the impossibly capacious idea of America could any one artist, or any one locale, have? Part, miniature, fragment, ...
Criticism of Criticism of Criticism
Illustration: Fox writing with a quill pen (1852) Courtesy of The New York Public Library THE RENAISSANCE COURTIER and author ...
