The Notre Dame Review is definitely not just poetry. In this issue they had all sorts of forms of writing, from short fiction, poetry, to reviews of books and poems and even mini biographies. The book opens with "The Lion in Winter" a biography about twenty pages long by Herbert Liebowitz, who wrote about the later life of writer and physicianWilliam Carlos Williams. Though it is technically nonfiction, the piece was written with psychological insight that read like a novel and really interesting wording that read sort of like a poem, and I could tell why it was chosen for this review though it was nonfiction, because it was still a beautiful piece of artistic work. I specifically liked the reference to Floss, his wife, and the complicated relationship that they had, as he would sometimes write about in his poems.

The review is still mostly poems, and I really like the versatility that I found in them. The word layout of the poems seemed very unique, such as one by Mary Gilliland, "Quarantine in the borders" which divided the phrasings into two mismatched columns and three uneven rows. The aparent dissaray of the words seemed to give the allusion of chaos that I really thought contributed to the overall message of the story, which i think depicted the calamity that occurred along the border coming into the United States.