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Poetry
ELIZABETH SPIRES   The Faces of Children  /  Brown Rabbit  /  Silence
GUY GOFFETTE   Envoi (translated by Marilyn Hacker)
CHARD DENIORD   The Book of Darkness
NATASHA TRETHEWEY   The Southern Crescent
PETER DALE SCOTT   The Wings of Time Passing
ANDREW FELD   Abstract for a Burning City
NANCY MENDOZA   Green Aubade
MICHAEL TYRELL   Do Not Duplicate
JENNIFER GROTZ   Love Poem with Candle and Fire  /  The Waves
WILLIAM LOGAN   Dream Villanelle  /  Maple Leaves
CAROL FROST   Windows  /  How to Hunt  /  Inlet
DAVID BAKER   Cardiognosis

Fiction
ISAAC BABEL   Five Stories: Information / Nine / Inspiration / The Public Library / In the Basement (translated by Peter Constantine)
PETER LASALLE   Snug Harbor
MURASAKI SHIKIBU   Speaking of Women (translated by Royall Tyler)
STEVE ALMOND   The Pass
JUNE R. EDELSTEIN   On Florentine Road
TOM HOUSE   Spring Fear
MARGO RABB   Museum
BROCK CLARKE   Plowing the Secondaries

Recollections
A. J. SHERMAN   An die Musik

Provocations
E. V. WALTER   Notes on Terror
SIMON SCHAMA   Some British Addictions

Revaluations
IRA SADOFF   Louise Glück and the Last Stage of Romanticism

Biography
ALFRED HABEGGER   A Glimpse at Emily Dickinson’s Reading

Book Reviews
MYLES WEBER   Where Arthur Miller Stands

Reader’s Notebook
WILLIAM H. PRITCHARD   Fish Contemplating a Bust of Milton

Rediscoveries
H. A. L. FISHER   The Legacy of Napoleon

Contributors’ Notes

COVER ARTIST: Tod Gunter