Volume 23, #2

Contents

A NOTE FROM THE EDITOR

Poetry

BRIGIT PEGEEN KELLY---The Dragon

VICTORIA CHANG---On Quitting

CATE MARVIN---Inside the Trembling Restaurant
-----------------------My Black Address

SARAH MURPHY---Canto 30
--------------------------Canto 31
--------------------------Canto 32

JOANIE MACKOWSKI---Conversation Pieces

VALERIE WOHLFELD --- The Night Orchard

PATRICK PHILLIPS---To Fortune

SUZANNE MATSON---A Nickel Sun

KEVIN PRUFER---Fallen from a Chariot

JENNIFER TONGE---Catafalque

Special Feature: The Poetry of Attilio Bertolucci

translated and with an introduction by Nicholas Benson

Poppies
Reading Waldemar Bonsels to G.
Butterflies
An augury, in leaving
The public gardens
Wind and rain
Portrait of a sick man
Leave me to bleed
Vermilion was
The hotel again
From Molly G.'s house
Thinking of Rome at the church of San Vitale in Parma

Fiction

NORMAN LOCK--- Marco and Marian Take a Vacation
------------------------ The Invisible Dutchman and His Dog

EDWARD HARDY---The Oort Cloud

ADAM LEVIN---Finch

PADGETT POWELL --- Answers
----------------------------- Dusk
----------------------------- Matter of Time

ELIZABETH BURNETT---Thieves

PATRICIA HALLOFF --- Tenants

DAVID GRIFFITH---Termite Colonies

Provocations

MIKHAIL N. EPSTEIN---On the Totalitarianism of Ideas (translated by Eve Adler)

JOHN BERTOLINI---Don Juan's Past and the Future of the Species

Reports from American Places

THEODORE SHERARTS---Travel Diary: North Dakota

Revaluations

DAVID CASTRONOVO---Humbert's America

CRAIG MCDANIEL---James Tate's Secret Co-Pilot

Recollections

NATALIA GINZBURG---Fantasy Life (translated by Lynne Sharon Schwartz)

JODI DAYNARD---Under the Electric Sun

Reader's Notebook

MARK RUDMAN---Kathleen Raine's Originality

Theater

MYLES WEBER --- Two Times Two: Some Notes on Our Contemporary Theater

Rediscoveries

SAMUEL DILL --- The Capture of Rome