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Contents
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A NOTE FROM THE EDITOR
Poetry
JANE HIRSHFIELD In a Room with Five People, Six Griefs / Vilnius
NATASHA TRETHEWEY Genus Narcissus
/ Myth
CARL PHILLIPS Distortion
DEBORA GREGER Orpheus in Florida
JOAO CABRAL DE MELO NETO A Few Matadors / Cemetery in Pernambuco
/ On a Monument to Asprin / For the Book Fair / (translated from the Portuguese
by Richard Zenith)
PHILIP METRES Hiroshima: A Panorama
TED GENOWAYS The Smallpox Diary
RICHARD WOLLMAN Paper in Autumn
SARAH MANGUSO Getting Over the Twentieth
Century / Prayer
Fiction
MOLLY MCNETT Catalogue Sales
MANDELIENE SMITH Friday Night
LORRAINE MAVIS LUPO The Secret Life of Margaret Dumont
HONOREE FANONNE JEFFERS Soon One Morning
F. D. REEVE Inside Outside
SEBASTIAN BARRY A Long Long Way
Literary Biography
JAMES WRIGHT A Poet’s Life in Letters
FREDERICK BROWN Flaubert in Egypt
Reader’s Notebook
A. J. SHERMAN Isaiah Berlin, Flourishing
Reflections
JOSHUA HARMON The Records
Revaluations
J. M. TYREE Henry Thoreau, William Gaddis, and the Buried History
of an Epigraph
Rediscoveries
KENYON COX The Illusion of Progress in the Arts