A Note from the Editor
Poetry
JOHN POCH The Crow Poem
ERIC PANKEY The Reconstruction of the Fictive Space
SIDNEY WADE My Instanbul / Kara Göl (Black Lake)
ELLEN HINSEY Meditation / On the Uncountable Nature of Things
PIMONE TRIPLETT Bird of Paradise Aubade With Bangkok Etching Over the Bed / A Vision of St. Clare
CATE MARVIN Preparations for August / A Windmill Makes a Statement
HENRIK NORDBRANT June Sea / Dream of Streetcars (translated by PATRICK PHILLIPS)
MARILYN HACKER Place des Vosges: October / 26 Rue de Turenne/26 December
THEODORE WOROZBYT No Traveler
DAVID YEZZI Gracie Pier
LAURA KASISCHKE Executioner as Muse
GERI DORAN Dusk in the Palm of the Lord / Blue Plums / Beyond the 45th Parallel
Fiction
CHUCK KINDER The Wife in the Story / You Are Not Your Characters
VICTOR WALTER Flight of Time
JOANN KOBIN At the “Changing Careers” Conference
MARTIN WALSER Assemblies (translated by MARK HARMAN)
JARRET KEENE Son of Mogar
ERIC DARTON Certain Amazing Adventures of Mr. Hoel
MATTHEW IRIBARNE Sudden Mysteries
Provocations
SAUL BELLOW AND KEITH BOTSFORD Dialogue: As Seen from the Ground
Recollections
RACHEL HADAS Classics
Biography
R.W.B. LEWIS Dante’s Beatrice and the New Life of Poetry
Revaluations
RICHARD WOLIN The Hannah Arendt Situation
Reports from Abroad
NICHOLAS R. CLIFFORD The Long March of “Orientalism”: Western Travelers in Modern China
Reader’s Notebook
DAVID CASTRONOVO Holden Caulfield’s Legacy
Rediscoveries
J. HENRI FEBRE The Black Bellied Tarantula
Contributors’ Notes
COVER ARTIST: Tod Gunter