Contents
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Volume 27, Number 2 / 2006


Poetry
NATASHA TRETHEWEY      from Taxonomy
JAMES LONGENBACH       Self and Soul
DEBORA GREGER     Not Thinking About the Past /     Guide to the Dark /     The End
SAMUEL AMADON     Uncomfortable Hand /     Archipelago This, Archipelago That
QUAN BARRY     Lion
FLOYD SKLOOT     Morphine Haze
AMIT MAJMUDAR      The Glassblowers of Venice
JENNIFER GROTZ     Alchemy /     Landscape with Town Square
SARAH MURPHY      Semaphore
JAMES HOCH     All Things End in Fragrance /     Starlings
SYDNEY LEA    Doubt

Fiction
CHRIS INGRAHAM      The Forlorn Father’s Lone Misguided Son
JOSH WEIL    Liberation Square
BEVERLY JENSEN    Wake
PETER LASALLE    Parentheses
HILARY JERRILL STEINITZ     In the Foyer
SHANNON CAIN    The Necessity of Certain Behaviors

Literary Lives
FRANCIS-NOEL THOMAS    Philip Larkin, Barbara Pym, and the Accident of Literary Fame

Performance Pieces
JONATHAN LEVY    Lamentation with Shadows

Provocations
PETER PLAGENS   The Scene Changes: New York Art in the Postwar Decades

Literary Archives
ALDO PALAZZESCHI    The Arsonist (translated by Nicholas Benson)

Cultural History
PAUL GRIFFITHS    Music in the Modern-Postmodern Labyrinth

Recollections
HANS JONAS   Hannah Arendt: An Intimate Portrait
        (translated by Brian Fox and Richard Wolin)

Revaluations
KIM DRAIN   Poe’s Death-Watches and the Architecture of Doubt

Rediscoveries
ROBERT MALCOLM    Odd Lives

Cover artist: George Joseph Farrah

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