On Poe's poetry / Steven Frye. Biography of Edgar Allan Poe / Mark Minor. The Paris review perspective / Juliet Lapidos for The Paris review. Poe's poetry of the exotic / Brian Yothers. Repetition and remembrance in Poe's poetry / Jeffrey Scraba. Rhyme and reason in Poe and his predecessors / Matthew J. Bolton. The poems of Edgar Allan Poe: their critical reception / Robert C. Evans. Edgar Allan Poe and the nightmare ode / Dave Smith. The visionary paradox: Poe's poetic theory / G. R. Thompson. Poe and the poetics of opacity: or, another way of looking at that black bird / Richard Godden. Quoting the signifier "nevermore": Fort! Da!, Pallas, and desire in language / Daneen Wardrop. Baudelaire and Poe / Jonathan Culler. Poe and Frances Osgood, as linked through "Lenore" / Burton R. Pollin. Poe and the Brownings / Francis B. Dedmond. Poe's composition of philosophy: reading and writing "The raven" / Leland S. Person, Jr. "The poetess" and Poe's performance of the feminine / Eliza Richards. Edgar Allan Poe's control of readers: formal pressures in Poe's dream poems / James Postema. Poe and the position of the poet in contemporary Japan / Keiji Minato.