Contents, Vol. 24, #4 (2004)

 

Poetry

GREGORY MAHRER   Afterlife

LINDA BIERDS   Percussion /    Elegance /    Spillikins /

BRIGIT PEGEEN KELLY   The Foreskin

CATE MARVIN   Lying My Head Off

CHARLES SIMIC   Leaves at Night /    Insomnia's Cricket /    Sunlight

V. PENELOPE PELIZZON   From The Monongahela Book of Hours

NICHOLAS SAMARAS   Bodies of No Separation

SALLY KEITH   Song from the Rain

ANN TOWNSEND   The Enclosure Act

SIDNEY WADE    Insurance

DEBORA GREGER   On the River of Mercy /   Night School in Florida

GERI DORAN   Earth Moving /   The Atlantis of Morning (Reprise)

NANCE VAN WINCKEL   In the Old Man's Favorite Soap Opera

ROBIN EKISS   The Past Is Another Country /    Dark Girl Dressed in
Blue

 

Fiction

JOHN MCNALLY   Brains of the Operation

SHEILA MULLIGAN   What Flows Through Me That You Call Time

NORMAN LOCK   Tango in Amsterdam

RACHEL CANTOR   Slave for a Day

KEITH LEE MORRIS   Notes for an Aborted Story Called "The Cyclist" That Turned Out to Be Too Much Like "The Swimmer"

 

Cultural History

DIARMAID MACCULLOCH   Reformation Time and Sexual Revolution

 

Reflections

FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY   Petersburg Visions in Prose and Verse     
(translated by Michael R. Katz)

CARL PHILLIPS   Coin of the Realm

 

Recollections

CARL VAN VECHTEN     Nineteen-Twenties: Days and Nights

 

Revaluations

DAVID CASTRONOVO   Norman Mailer As Midcentury Advertisement

 

Provocations

MYLES WEBER   August Wilson Grounded

 

Film

WILLIAM COLLINS DONAHUE   The Shadow Play of Religion in Fritz Lang's

          Metropolis

 

Rediscoveries

JAMES HUNEKER   The Melancholy of Masterpieces

 

Contributors' Notes