Volume 23, #3

Contents

 

Poetry

MONICA FERRELL In the Binary Alleys of the Lion's Virus
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaThe Fire of Despair

DEBORA GREGER The Desert of Memory
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaThe Pencil Museum of Cedar Key

LAWRENCE RAAB Vanishing Point

JANE HIRSHFIELD What Is Usual Is Not What Is Always
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaDog Still Barking at Midnight

PEG BOYERS Family Portrait

ERIC PANKEY Volatile Spirits
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaThe Narration of Rain

HENRI COLE Necessary and Impossible
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaInsomnia

JOSEPH CAMPANA 9:55 P.M.
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa1:36 A.M.
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa3:00 A.M.
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa5:225 A.M.

Fiction

DOUG TREVOR Central Square

RACHEL CANTOR Hello, I'm Cora

DAN DEWEESE Bullies

DENNIS MCFADDEN Jimtown Road

GLEN POURCIAU Answer

JOSHUA HENKIN Summer People

 

Provocations

SUN TZU The Art of War / (translated by John Minford)

 

Recollections

ANNE ATIK Remembering Samuel Beckett

ROBYN SARAH Connections

 

Literary Archives

WALLACE STEGNER Creative Writing

 

Music

JORGE MARTÍN Wanted: Opera, Dead or Alive

 

Revaluations

DAVID BAKER On Whitman's "Time to Come"

 

Reports from Abroad

KARIM LOGUE Beneath Kilimanjaro

 

Reader's Notebook

ALICE L. TUFEL Going Sane: Dawn Powell's Vision

 

Rediscoveries

ANATOLE FRANCE Mad Folk in Literature

HELEN W. HENDERSON New York Before the Revolution

 

CONTRIBUTORS' NOTES