Contents, Volume 23, #1

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Poetry

NICK FLYNN Paper Wasp; Swarm

BOB HICOK Complications After Birth

NATHANIEL BELLOWS Ornithology

PETER COOLEY Villanelle; Television

NICKY SCHILDKRAUT Gratitude

MICHAEL DUMANIS Ode

DAVID SEMANKI In Extremis; Gethsemane

NEIL SHEPARD Corfu

GARY MARGOLIS In Audubon's Notebook

J. D. MCCLATCHY Fado

ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI How Clowns Go; Vaporetto (translated by Clare Cavanagh)

CARL PHILLIPS Fervor

SUSAN HAHN Pity the Judas Tree; Pity Jerusalem

JONATHAN FINK The Possible Remains

 

Fiction

KEITH LEE MORRIS The Children of Dead State Troopers

JOANN KOBIN Diamonds

ITALO SVEVO Artist and Model (translated by Beth Archer Brombert)

DAVID H. LYNN Hirsch and Bratinsky

STEVE AMICK Fat Tracy

JOSEPH ROTH Stationmaster Fallmerayer (translated by Michael Hofmann)

PETER CAMERON Beginning with the Letter

 

Provocations

NATALIA GINZBURG Universal Compassion (translated by Lynne Sharon Schwartz)

 

Biography

RICHARD LINGEMAN Sinclair Lewis Arrives

 

Recollections

JAMES BROWN Fire

ivan kraus Official Forms (translated by Gerald Turner)

 

Revaluations

CAROL FROST Frost's Way of Speaking

ROBERT COHEN Adam Zagajewski: An Introduction

 

Music

GEORGE EDWARDS Time Signatures

 

History

MICHAEL R. KATZ "But This Building--What on Earth Is It?"

 

Rediscoveries

CHARLES M. DOUGHTY Conversations in Arabia

 

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