A Note From the Editor
Poetry
JOHN POCH The Island
SUSAN KOLODNY Losses / Yahrzeit
DAVID RODERICK Night in the Pawtuxet Woods / Riparian
STEVE KISTULENTZ The Bourbon Myths / Fixing
CARL PHILLIPS Swear-to-God / The Smell of Hay
QUAN BARRY The Long Jump as Teleportation
SUSAN HAHN Pity Song in Solo Voice without Accompaniment
/ Pity Dance for a Small Troupe
MARK RUDMAN Conversion in Scafa
KAREN RIGBY New York Song / Design for a Flying Machine
GEOFF BROCK The Man Outside / The Last Suburbia / The Beautiful Animal
BRENT PALLAS The Islands / Naming the Creatures
Fiction
MATT BONDURANT The Two Lands
TRENTON LEE STEWART Moriah
JONATHAN WILSON An Inspector in Palestine
BRET ANTHONY JOHNSTON The Widow
GLEN POURCIAU Hired Hand
GEORGE SINGLETON The Morton’s Salt Boy
Revaluations
PAUL MULDOON Polar Expeditions: “I tried to think a lonelier Thing” by Emily Dickinson
GARY ADELMAN Tsypkin’s Way with Dostoyevsky
Recollections
TED SOLOTAROFF An Evening with Bernard Malamud
Reader’s Notebook
RACHEL HADAS Q & A
Music
MARC ESTRIN Essay After a Sonata: Concerning the Sublimation of Charles Ives
Biography
PHILIP CALLOW D. H. Lawrence Arrives in New Mexico
Provocations
DIANE RAVITCH Textbook Cases
Rediscoveries
MATTHEW ARNOLD Discourses in America: Emerson
E. VIOLLET-LE-DUC No Fixed Fortifications
COVER ARTIST: Tod Gunter