Contents, Volume 22, #4

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Poetry

ELIZABETH SPIRES---The Faces of Children; Brown Rabbit ; Silence

GUY GOFFETTE---Envoi (translated by Marilyn Hacker)

CHARD DENIORD---The Book of Darkness

NATASHA TRETHEWEY---The Southern Crescent

PETER DALE SCOTT---The Wings of Time Passing

ANDREW FELD---Abstract for a Burning City

NANCY MENDOZA---Green Aubade

MICHAEL TYRELL---Do Not Duplicate

JENNIFER GROTZ---Love Poem with Candle and Fire; The Waves

WILLIAM LOGAN---Dream Villanelle; Maple Leaves

CAROL FROST---Windows; How to Hunt; Inlet

DAVID BAKER---Cardiognosis

 

Fiction

ISAAC BABEL---Five Stories: Information; Nine; Inspiration; The Public Library; In the Basement; (translated by Peter Constantine)

PETER LASALLE---Snug Harbor

MURASAKI SHIKIBU---Speaking of Women (translated by Royall Tyler)

STEVE ALMOND---The Pass

JUNE R. EDELSTEIN---On Florentine Road

TOM HOUSE---Spring Fear

MARGO RABB---Museum

BROCK CLARKE---Plowing the Secondaries

 

Recollections

A. J. SHERMAN---An die Musik

 

Provocations

E. V. WALTER---Notes on Terror

SIMON SCHAMA---Some British Addictions

 

Revaluations

IRA SADOFF---Louise Glück and the Last Stage of Romanticism

 

Biography

ALFRED HABEGGER---A Glimpse at Emily Dickinson's Reading

 

Book Reviews

MYLES WEBER---Where Arthur Miller Stands

 

Reader's Notebook

WILLIAM H. PRITCHARD---Fish Contemplating a Bust of Milton

 

Rediscoveries

H. A. L. FISHER---The Legacy of Napoleon

 

 

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