Volume 23, #4

Contents

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Poetry

DEBORAH CUMMINS If Not Moonless

PHILIP METRES Making Meshi

CAROL FROST Tidal
ooooooooooooooiOld Flail

KARL KIRCHWEY Tynnichus the Chalcidean
ooooooooooooooooooA Pair of Sterling Silver Shoe-Horns

JENNIFER GROTZ Self-Portrait as a Drowned Man
ooooooooooooooooooLe Bel Été

ANDREW FELD Signature
oooooooooooooooiTo Adam

NATASHA TRETHEWEY Translation
oooooooooooooooooooooooAfter Your Death

PIMONE TRIPLETT Spleen
ooooooooooooooooooiSepulchre in Two Voices

WILLIAM LOGAN The Expensive Dress
ooooooooooooooooooThe Anatomy Lesson

KIMBERLY JOHNSON Vanity of Vanities
ooooooooooooooooooooooLove Song

JOHN KINSELLA The Top Bush
oooooooooooooooooMiracle at New Norcia
oooooooooooooooooAcross the Gravel Wastes, a Farmer Views His Neighbor Stealing His Last Water on the Sabbath Day

Fiction

MICHAEL LOWENTHAL An Expert in Excommunication

NORMAN LOCK Grim Tales

STEVE ALMOND Shotgun Wedding

JOAN LEEGANT The Four Daughters

CHRISTINE SNEED This Parrot Is Hilarious

KEITH LEE MORRIS Geraldine Loves

Provocations

SUSAN NEIMAN Undeniable Evil

Revaluations

MARK RUDMAN Pavese and the Muse of Dislocation

PAUL MULDOON In the Hall of Mirrors: "Autopsychography" by Fernando Pessoa

Recollections

P. F. KLUGE The File Cabinet

Cultural History

PENELOPE HUGHES-HALLETT The Mystery of the Rainbow

Performance Pieces

LADISLAV SMOCEK The Maze (translated by Z. Charvatova and Anthony Vivis)

Music

CORNELIUS PARTSCH That Weimar Jazz

Rediscoveries

R. B. CUNNINGHAME GRAHAM AND THÉOPHILE GAUTIER Presumptions of Progress: Two Prefaces

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