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Poetry
CHRISTIAN WIMAN  From a Window / Morning Curse
JESSE LEE KERCHEVAL  Cabo De Gata, December
MARY CORNISH  The Laws of Japanese Painting / Restoration
MOLLY TENENBAUM  My New Life
REETIKA VAZIRANI  Radha Krishna
MAURYA SIMON  Paula’s Tale: Mourning
VIRGIL SUÁREZ  Arabesques / La Florida
BARRY STERNLIEB  Tea Master
MARK WUNDERLICH  Lamb / Dream: Intruder / Water Snake
MICHALLE GOULD  Attribution / Election
DANIEL ANDERSON  We’ve Gathered in a Formal Garden
JONATHAN FINK  Natural History

Fiction
PETER LASALLE  Murdering the Moonlight
LUCIA NEVAI  Full Replacement Value
LEV NIKOLAYEVICH TOLSTOY  After the Ball (translated by Alan Pinch)
STEVE AMICK  Animal Lover
JOANN KOBIN  Fame and Fortune
JOSH GOLDFADEN  The Veronese Circle

Cultural History
REBECCA SOLNIT  The Annihilation of Time and Space

Recollections
SAMUEL HYNES  Growing Up with the War
RALPH JAMES SAVARESE  Severe and Profound

Art
STEVEN G. MARKS  Abstract Art and the Regeneration of Mankind

Reader’s Notebook
CAROL FROST  Passing Beauty

Revaluations
MAUD ELLMANN  Shadowing Elizabeth Bowen

Reports from American Places
JEFF TIETZ  Whiteclay

Rediscoveries
J. ALLANSON PICTON  Pantheism: Some Preliminary Observations

Contributors’ Notes

COVER ARTIST: Tod Gunter