Volume 24, #2

 

Contents

 

A NOTE FROM THE EDITOR

 

Poetry

JOHN POCH The Island

SUSAN KOLODNY Losses
000000000000000000Yahrzeit

DAVID RODERICK Night in the Pawtuxet Woods
000000000000000000Riparian

STEVE KISTULENTZ The Bourbon Myths
00000000000000000000Fixing

CARL PHILLIPS Swear-to-God
000000000000000The Smell of Hay

QUAN BARRY The Long Jump as Teleportation

SUSAN HAHN Pity Song in Solo Voice without Accompaniment
00000000000000Pity Dance for a Small Troupe

MARK RUDMAN Conversion in Scafa

KAREN RIGBY New York Song
00000000000000Design for a Flying Machine

GEOFF BROCK The Man Outside
oooooooooooooooThe Last Suburbia
000000000000000The Beautiful Animal

BRENT PALLAS The Islands
ooooooooooooooooNaming the Creatures

 

Fiction

MATT BONDURANT The Two Lands

TRENTON LEE STEWART Moriah

JONATHAN WILSON An Inspector in Palestine

BRET ANTHONY JOHNSTON The Widow

GLEN POURCIAU Hired Hand

GEORGE SINGLETON The Morton's Salt Boy

 

Revaluations

PAUL MULDOON Polar Expeditions: "I tried to think a lonelier Thing" by Emily Dickinson

GARY ADELMAN Tsypkin's Way with Dostoyevsky

 

Recollections

TED SOLOTAROFF An Evening with Bernard Malamud

 

Reader's Notebook

RACHEL HADAS Q & A

 

Music

MARC ESTRIN Essay After a Sonata: Concerning the Sublimation of Charles Ives

 

Biography

PHILIP CALLOW D. H. Lawrence Arrives in New Mexico

 

Provocations

DIANE RAVITCH Textbook Cases

 

Rediscoveries

MATTHEW ARNOLD Discourses in America: Emerson

E. VIOLLET-LE-DUC No Fixed Fortifications

 

CONTRIBUTORS' NOTES