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  1. Art
    James Finn Cotter
    The Hudson Review, Summer 1984, pp. 295-300
  2. The Collector
    James Finn Cotter
    The Nation, December 21, 1974, pp. 670-672
  3. [+]
    Crossing Robert Bridges (Review)
    James Finn Cotter
    The Selected Letters of Robert Bridges, by Donald E. Stanford and Robert Bridges
    1. The Selected Letters of Robert Bridges by Donald E. Stanford and Robert Bridges
    The Hudson Review, Summer 1985, pp. 343-345
  4. Dante: The Divine Comedy (1991)
    James Finn Cotter and Dante Alighieri
    1 Review
  5. Desire Not the Night
    James F. Cotter, S.J.
    Commonweal, December 2, 1955, p. 229
  6. [+]
    Diving Dante (8 Reviews)
    James Finn Cotter
    Dante the Maker, by William Anderson
    1. Dante the Maker by William Anderson
    2. The Figure of Dante by Jerome Mazzaro
    3. A Reading of Dante's Inferno by Wallace Fowlie
    4. Dante's Inferno by Mark Musa and Dante Alighieri
    5. Dante's Purgatorio by Mark Musa and Dante
    6. Dante: Inferno by Allen Mandelbaum and Dante Alighieri
    7. Purgatorio by Allen Mandelbaum and Dante Alighieri
    8. Dante: Divine Comedy by C.H. Sisson and Dante Alighieri
    The Hudson Review, Summer 1982, pp. 306-313
  7. Reviews
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    Familiar Poetry (21 Reviews)
    James Finn Cotter
    A Familiar Tree, by Jon Stallworthy
    1. A Familiar Tree by Jon Stallworthy
    2. Kicking the Leaves by Donald Hall
    3. Light from the Furnace Rising by Paul Petrie
    4. Nightfire by Gail Mazur
    5. Border Crossings by Greg Pape
    6. Sun Fetcher by Michael Dennis Browne
    7. The Fifth Season by Michael Sheridan
    8. A Call in the Midst of the Crowd by Alfred Corn
    9. Woman Before an Aquarium by Patricia Hampl
    10. The Climbers by John Hart
    11. The Veritable Years by William Everson
    12. Imagining a Unicorn by Barry Spacks
    13. The Pregnant Man by Robert S. Phillips
    14. Buying a Heart by George MacBeth
    15. Who Shall be the Sun? by David Wagoner
    16. Finding the Center by Dennis Tedlock
    17. Now and Then by Robert Penn Warren
    18. Tread the Dark by David Ignatow
    19. Weathering by Alastair Reid
    20. Selected Poems of May Sarton by Serena Sue Hilsinger, Lois Brynes, and May Sarton, ...
    21. This Blessed Earth by John Hall Wheelock
    The Hudson Review, Spring 1979, pp. 109-122
  8. [+]
    For Better or Worse: The Year's Verse (Review)
    James Finn Cotter
    Anthology of Magazine Verse and Yearbook of American Poetry, by Alan F. Pater
    1. Anthology of Magazine Verse and Yearbook of American Poetry by Alan F. Pater
    The Hudson Review, Winter 1980, pp. 628-635
  9. [+]
    Gnostic Visions and Revisions (2 Reviews)
    James Finn Cotter
    The Nag Hammadi Library in English, by James M. Robinson
    1. The Nag Hammadi Library in English by James M. Robinson
    2. The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels
    The Hudson Review, Summer 1980, pp. 313-322
  10. Reviews
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    Golden Codger Coleridge (Review)
    James Finn Cotter
    Coleridge: Early Visions, 1772-1804, by Richard Holmes
    1. Coleridge: Early Visions, 1772-1804 by Richard Holmes
    The Hudson Review, Spring 1991, pp. 143-148
  11. [+]
    The Gospel Proffer (Review)
    James Finn Cotter
    The Four Gospels and the Revelation, by Richmond Lattimore
    1. The Four Gospels and the Revelation by Richmond Lattimore
    The Hudson Review, Winter 1979, pp. 611-616
  12. Inscape: The Christology and Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins (1972)
    James Finn Cotter
    1 Review
  13. [+]
    The Lovelies Woman Born (Review)
    James Finn Cotter
    Lucky Eyes and a High Heart, by Nancy Cardozo
    1. Lucky Eyes and a High Heart by Nancy Cardozo
    The Hudson Review, Summer 1979, pp. 289-292
  14. Memory
    James Finn Cotter
    The Hudson Review, Summer 1986, p. 283
  15. On the Shoulders of Emile Male
    James Finn Cotter
    The Hudson Review, Winter 1988, pp. 691-695
  16. Reviews
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    Outer and Inner Poetry (18 Reviews)
    James Finn Cotter
    It Depends, by Eugenio Montale
    1. It Depends by Eugenio Montale
    2. Sentences by Howard Nemerov
    3. Night Blooming Cactus by Robert Watson
    4. Introducing Tom Wayman by Tom Wayman
    5. Zero Hour, and Other Documentary Poems by Ernesto Cardenal and Donald D. Walsh
    6. Agadir by Artur Lundkvist
    7. Ways of Light by Richard Eberhart
    8. The Lone Woman and Others by Constance Urdang
    9. The Night Won't Save Anyone by Marcia Southwick
    10. The Knife, and Other Poems by Richard Tillinghast
    11. Being Here: Poetry, 1977-1980 by Robert Penn Warren
    12. Bazaar by Susan Wood
    13. Descending Figure by Louise Gluck
    14. Walking the White Fields by Leslie Norris
    15. The Shore by David St. John
    16. Before Sleep by Philip Booth
    17. Selected Poems, 1965-1975 by Seamus Heaney
    18. Preoccupations by Seamus Heaney
    The Hudson Review, Summer 1981, pp. 277-289
  17. [+]
    Pagels's Paradise Lost (Review)
    James Finn Cotter
    Adam, Eve, and the Serpent, by Elaine Pagels
    1. Adam, Eve, and the Serpent by Elaine Pagels
    The Hudson Review, Spring 1989, pp. 165-170
  18. [+]
    The Persona of Sor Juana (2 Reviews)
    James Finn Cotter
    A Sor Juana Anthology, by Alan S. Trueblood and Sor Juana
    1. A Sor Juana Anthology by Alan S. Trueblood and Sor Juana
    2. Sor Juana, or The Traps of Faith by Octavio Paz
    The Hudson Review, Summer 1989, pp. 314-320
  19. [+]
    The Philadelphia Story (Review)
    James Finn Cotter
    Brotherly Love, by Daniel Hoffman
    1. Brotherly Love by Daniel Hoffman
    The Hudson Review, Autumn 1981, pp. 435-439
  20. [+]
    Poetry Encounters (16 Reviews)
    James Finn Cotter
    Teach Me, Dear Sister, by Irving Feldman
    1. Teach Me, Dear Sister by Irving Feldman
    2. Shouting at No One by Lawrence Joseph
    3. Foreseeing the Journey by James Applewhite
    4. Only the World by Constance Urdang
    5. Ish River Country by Robert Sund
    6. Planting the Children by Lola Haskins
    7. Fathering by Frederick Feirstein
    8. Natural Birth by Toi Derricotte
    9. Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce by Robert Penn Warren
    10. Characters from Proust by Wallace Fowlie
    11. The Three Theban Plays by Bernard Knox, Robert Fagles, and Sophocles
    12. Eros at the World Kite Pageant Poems by Laurence Lieberman
    13. Embodiment, and Other Poems by Arthur Gregor
    14. Out for the Elements by Andrew Waterman
    15. Worldly Hopes by A.R. Ammons
    16. Lake Effect Country by A.R. Ammons
    The Hudson Review, Winter 1983, pp. 711-723
  21. [+]
    Poetry Marathon (21 Reviews)
    James Finn Cotter
    Sweeney Astray: A Version from the Irish, by Seamus Heaney
    1. Sweeney Astray: A Version from the Irish by Seamus Heaney
    2. Major Poetical Works by Mikhail I. Lermontov
    3. Narrative Poems by Aleksandr S. Pushkin and Mikhail Y. Lermontov, ...
    4. Selected Poems by Boris Pasternak
    5. Three Russian Women Poets by Mary Maddock
    6. The Separate Notebooks by Czeslaw Milosz
    7. Collected Poems, 1930-83 by Josephine Miles
    8. Those Who Ride the Night Winds by Nikki Giovanni
    9. Inside the Onion by Howard Nemerov
    10. The Long Reach by Richard Eberhart
    11. The Great Day by John Tagliabue
    12. Falling from Stardom by Jonathan Holden
    13. Lining Up by Richard Howard
    14. Leaving the Door Open by David Ignatow
    15. The Dead and the Living by Sharon Olds
    16. Life Signs by Jayanta Mahapatra
    17. Days We Would Rather Know by Michael Blumenthal
    18. History of My Heart by Robert Pinsky
    19. The Evolution of the Flightless Bird by Richard Kenney
    20. Fire in the Garden by Herbert Lomas
    21. The River Painter by Emily Grosholz
    The Hudson Review, Autumn 1984, pp. 496-506
  22. [+]
    Poetry of Opposites (12 Reviews)
    James Finn Cotter
    The Feel of the Sun, by Mark Perlberg
    1. The Feel of the Sun by Mark Perlberg
    2. Exchanges by Richard Pevear
    3. The Times Between by Wyatt Prunty
    4. Her Name by James Baker Hall
    5. The Country Between Us by Carolyn Forche
    6. The Rote Walker by Mark Jarman
    7. The False Start by Jayanta Mahapatra
    8. We Have Lost Our Fathers, and Other Poems by Nicholas Rinaldi
    9. Holding Patterns by Leonard Nathan
    10. Hundreds of Fireflies by Brad Leithauser
    11. Empires by Richard Moore
    12. Anthracite Country by Jay Parini
    The Hudson Review, Autumn 1982, pp. 471-482
  23. [+]
    Poetry Preserves (9 Reviews)
    James Finn Cotter
    Garbage, by A.R. Ammons
    1. Garbage by A.R. Ammons
    2. Civitatula: The Little City by John Holloway
    3. New and Selected Poems, 1962-92 by Laurence Lieberman
    4. Did I Miss Anything? by Tom Wayman
    5. The Owl in the Mask of the Dreamer by John Haines
    6. Fathering the Map by Robert Pack
    7. Coast to Coast by Bruce Bawer
    8. Paul Bunyan's Bearskin by Patricia Goedicke
    9. Dark Matter by Christopher Buckley
    The Hudson Review, Summer 1994, pp. 313-322
  24. [+]
    Poetry Reading (21 Reviews)
    James Finn Cotter
    A Hive of Souls, by James Hazard
    1. A Hive of Souls by James Hazard
    2. One Robe, One Bowl by Ryokan
    3. Chinese Literature, Vol. 2: Nature Poetry by H.C. Chang
    4. A Voice in the Mountain by Peter Davison
    5. The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov by Howard Nemerov
    6. Cumberland Station by Dave Smith
    7. By the Wreakmaster's Cottage by Paula Rankin
    8. The Fuhrer Bunker by W.D. Snodgrass
    9. War Story by Gerald McCarthy
    10. Houseboat Days by John Ashbery
    11. 31 Letters and 13 Dreams~~Thirty-One Letters and Thirteen Dreams by Richard Hugo
    12. This Body Is Made of Camphor and Gopherwood by Robert Bly
    13. Without Music by Michael Palmer
    14. The Ventriloquist: New and Selected Poems by Robert Huff
    15. Eye Level by Jane Shore
    16. Keeping the Night by Peter Everwine
    17. A Place to Stand by Philip Holmes
    18. The Past Now by Arthur Gregor
    19. Stars by C.G. Hanzlicek
    20. Ten Twentieth-Century Indian Poets by R. Parthasarathy
    21. A Season on the Earth: Selected Poems of Nirala by David Rubin and Nirala
    The Hudson Review, Spring 1978, pp. 207-220
  25. [+]
    Poetry Travels (7 Reviews)
    James Finn Cotter
    The Creole Mephistopheles, by Laurence Lieberman
    1. The Creole Mephistopheles by Laurence Lieberman
    2. The One Day by Donald Hall
    3. Carrying Over by Carolyn Kizer
    4. Unfinished Painting by Mary Jo Salter
    5. Blue Tango by Michael Van Walleghen
    6. Nurture by Maxine Kumin
    7. Secret Citizen by Arthur Gregor
    The Hudson Review, Autumn 1989, pp. 514-522
  26. [+]
    Poetry, Ego and Self (13 Reviews)
    James Finn Cotter
    This Tree Will Be Here for a Thousand Years, by Robert Bly
    1. This Tree Will Be Here for a Thousand Years by Robert Bly
    2. The Poems of Stanley Kunitz, 1928-1978 by Stanley Kunitz
    3. Selected Poems 1950-1975 by Thom Gunn
    4. Guillen on Guillen by Jorge Guillen
    5. Living with Distance by Ralph J. Mills, Jr.
    6. Child's Game, On a Journey, and Other Poems by Spencer Brown
    7. Practicing Up to Be Human by Lionel Kearns
    8. The Burning Mystery of Anna in 1951 by Kenneth Koch
    9. No Ordinary World by Mekeel McBride
    10. Riven Doggeries by James Tate
    11. The Woman on the Bridge Over the Chicago River by Allen R. Grossman
    12. In Broken Country by David Wagoner
    13. An Explanation of America by Robert Pinsky
    The Hudson Review, Spring 1980, pp. 131-145
  27. [+]
    Poetry's Need to Name (11 Reviews)
    James Finn Cotter
    The Maximus Poems, by Charles Olson
    1. The Maximus Poems by Charles Olson
    2. Far and Away by Mark Jarman
    3. Summer Celestial by Stanley Plumly
    4. The Past by Galway Kinnell
    5. Collected Poems by Robert Hayden and Frederick Glaysher
    6. New and Collected Poems, 1961-1983 by Alan Dugan
    7. The Separate Rose by Pablo Neruda
    8. To the House Ghost by Paula Rankin
    9. Fish, Flesh, and Fowl by William Hathaway
    10. Alternate Means of Transport by Cynthia Macdonald
    11. Instant Chronicles by D.J. Enright
    The Hudson Review, Spring 1986, pp. 153-165
  28. [+]
    Prized Poetry (7 Reviews)
    James Finn Cotter
    The Buried Houses, by David Mason
    1. The Buried Houses by David Mason
    2. Night Shift at the Crucifix Factory by Philip Dacey
    3. Walking Distance by Debra Allbery
    4. Campo Santo by Susan Wood
    5. Eva-Mary by Linda McCarriston
    6. As If It Matters by Eamon Grennan
    7. Iris by Mark Jarman
    The Hudson Review, Autumn 1992, pp. 518-526
  29. [+]
    Public and Private Poetry (7 Reviews)
    James Finn Cotter
    The Selected Poetry of Jaroslav Seifert, by Jaroslav Seifert and George Gibian
    1. The Selected Poetry of Jaroslav Seifert by Jaroslav Seifert and George Gibian
    2. Personal Accounts by Robert S. Phillips
    3. Rubbings by Jerome Mazzaro
    4. The Ghosts of Who We Were by Phyllis H. Thompson
    5. New and Collected Poems, 1970-1985 by David Ignatow
    6. The Poems of R.S. Thomas by R.S. Thomas
    7. Relations: Selected Poems 1950-1985 by Philip Booth
    The Hudson Review, Spring 1987, pp. 149-155
  30. [+]
    Raising Cain (Review)
    James Finn Cotter
    The Changes of Cain, by Ricardo J. Quinones
    1. The Changes of Cain by Ricardo J. Quinones
    The Hudson Review, Summer 1992, pp. 345-351
  31. [+]
    Straighten our crooked paths (Review)
    James Finn Cotter
    The Supreme Koan, by Frederick Franck
    1. The Supreme Koan by Frederick Franck
    Commonweal, September 9, 1983, p. 473
  32. [+]
    The Truth of Poetry (6 Reviews)
    James Finn Cotter
    Yevgeny Yevtushenko: The Collected Poems, 1952-1990, by Albert C. Todd, James Ragan, an...
    1. Yevgeny Yevtushenko: The Collected Poems, 1952-1990 by Albert C. Todd, James Ragan, and Yevgeny Yevtushenko, ...
    2. God Hunger by Michael Ryan
    3. The Homeplace by Marilyn Nelson Waniek
    4. Outside History by Eavan Boland
    5. Bright Moves by J. Allyn Rosser
    6. Forgiveness by Dennis Sampson
    The Hudson Review, Summer 1991, pp. 343-351
  33. Verse
    James F. Cotter
    Commonweal, June 28, 1968, p. 443
  34. Verse
    James Finn Cotter
    Commonweal, May 31, 1974, p. 303
  35. Verse
    James Finn Cotter
    Commonweal, July 30, 1976, p. 505
  36. Verse
    James Finn Cotter
    Commonweal, December 23, 1977, p. 818
  37. Verse
    Tom McKeown and James Finn Cotter
    Commonweal, September 2, 1977, p. 555
  38. [+]
    The Voice of Poetry (6 Reviews)
    James Finn Cotter
    Sumerian Vistas, by A.R. Ammons
    1. Sumerian Vistas by A.R. Ammons
    2. Little Star by Mark Halliday
    3. Lower-Class Heresy by T.R. Hummer
    4. The Lotus Flowers by Ellen Bryant Voigt
    5. Sabbaths by Wendell Berry
    6. God Bless Karl Marx! by C.H. Sisson
    The Hudson Review, Spring 1988, pp. 225-232
  39. [+]
    Whispers of the Word (Review)
    James Finn Cotter
    Unassigned Frequencies, by Laurence Lieberman
    1. Unassigned Frequencies by Laurence Lieberman
    The Hudson Review, Autumn 1978, pp. 551-562
  40. The Winter Dead
    James F. Cotter, S.J.
    Commonweal, July 15, 1955, p. 372
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