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
COVER ARTIST: Tod Gunter