Contents
Volume 30, Number 3 / 2009

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Poetry
KIMBERLY JOHNSON       Cowpunch   /    Zion Rim
CAMASIN MIDDOUR       Into the Deeps
MIKE PUICAN       Psalm   /   This Morning, My Father   /   Lullaby
CARL PHILLIPS       Dark Angel
JOANNE DOMINIQUE DWYER    Photuris P.   /   The Relativity of Sorrows
RICHARD CHESS       The Bitter Herb    /     Say Hands
COREY MARKS       Sleeper Lake Fire    /    After the Shipwreck
PETER B. HYLAND       Octoroon
STEVEN D. SCHROEDER       Uncertain Stumbling Buzz   /   How Do You
Like Your Blueeyed Boy?

Fiction
PETER LASALLE       What Can’t Not Happen
LOUISE JARVIS FLYNN     Irish Twins
LORI OSTLUND       Domestic Interiors of the Midwest: Two Stories
                  All Boy   /   Talking Fowl with My Father
GREGORY BLAKE SMITH       Being and Nothingness (Not a Real Title)
AJA GABEL      Reasons for Eating

Special Feature
Ted Solotaroff Remembering; Remembering Ted Solotaroff

[Editor's Introduction]
TED SOLOTAROFF  The Literary Scene Changes

[A Note on the Remembrances]
PHILIP ROTH  :  LYNNE SHARON SCHWARTZ  :  ROBERT STONE  :  ROBERT COHEN  :  HILMA WOLITZER  :  GERALD STERN  :  BOBBIE ANN MASON  :  GEORGES BORCHARDT  :  GERALD HOWARD  :  JAMES LASDUN  :  JILL SCHOOLMAN  :  RUSSELL BANKS  :  ANTON SHAMMAS  :  HY ENZER  :  IRENE SKOLNICK  :  DOUGLAS UNGER  :  ALLEGRA GOODMAN  :  EHUD HAVAZELET  :  MAX APPLE

Revaluations
JOELLE BIELE       Elizabeth Bishop at the Crossroads of Poetry and Prose
FRANK KERMODE       E. M. Forster and the Art and Science of the Novel

Reflections
FRANCIS-NOËL THOMAS   Paris at Street Level

Translations
IVAN SHCHEGLOV  The Dacha Husband: His Adventures, Observations, and Disappointments
                    (translated by Michael R. Katz)

Rediscoveries
HEINRICH OLLENDORFF (WITH FELIX FORESTI)       Exercises in Italian Conversation

Contributors' Notes

Cover Artist: Frank Owen