Poetry
MARINA TSVETAEVA   Poem of the Hill (translated by Mary Jane White)
DELISA MULKEY   A Microcosm of the Human Condition
JAMES HOCH   Fulgarite /   Ocean /   Field Razing, Nickel Mines, PA
PETER COOLEY   June 20, 2006 /   Poem I Can Only Write Today
JENNIFER CHANG   Pursuit /   Night Swim
DEBORA GREGER   In the Heart of England
ELLEN HINSEY   Report on the Descent   / Transcript
KEITH EKISS   Landscape with Saguaros
RON DE MARIS   Palms and Prayer
VICTORIA CHANG   Ars Poetica as Birdfeeder and Hummingbird
NICOLE COOLEY   Old Gulf Coast Postcards /   Bayou Le Batre

Fiction
CHRISTINE SNEED   Quality of Life
E. V. SLATE   Purple Bamboo Park
STEPHEN COYNE   The Mercy of the World
F. D. REEVE   Entrances and Exits
ANTHONY VARALLO   Parade Rest
BEVERLY JENSEN   Gone
EMILY MITCHELL   Lucille’s House

Literary Lives
MARK RUDMAN The Book of Samuel

Cultural History
GINO SEGRE   Faust in Copenhagen
MICHAEL KRAUS   Did the Charter 77 Movement Bring an End to Communism?

Documents
ANNE-MARGUERITE PETIT DUNOYER   Reports (Some Scandalous) from Eighteenth-Century France (translated by Nancy O’Connor)

Revaluations
FRANCIS-NOEL THOMAS   Last Looks: Reflections on the Face of Death

Rediscoveries
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON   The Ideal House

cover art by Howard Buchwald