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Poetry
LILLIAS BEVER  Miracle at the Bridge of San Lorenzo
ROBERT THOMAS  from “Diary of One Who Vanished”
VALERIE WOHLFELD  Charms
ROGER SEDARAT  Essential Journey
DAVID BARBER  Burbank’s Thornless
RACHEL HADAS  The Boulder
JEHANNE DUBROW  Fasting
JESSE LEE KERCHEVAL  Next Tuesday
THEODORE WOROZBYT  runne softley, till I end my Song
NICOLE COOLEY  Landscape with Morning Sickness / Pregnant at the Archive
SAM WITT  For This Reason Did We Prescribe to the Children of Israel . . .
BRIAN KOMEI DEMPSTER  Eightfold Chant / My Grandmother’s Kitchen
DEBORAH CUMMINS  Trompe L’Oeil
DANIEL ANDERSON  Elegy for the Dying Dog

Fiction
ANDREW DAY  Our Agreement
ANNE RAEFF  The Buchovskys on Their Own
PETER ALTENBERG  Telegrams of the Soul: A Selection (translated by Peter Wortsman)
KEITH LEE MORRIS  Tired Heart
CHRISTOPHER SORRENTINO  Among the Conspirators
ROBERT LOPEZ  Asunder

Literary Lives
ROBERT LOWELL  Letters,1937–77
MYLES WEBER  Reading Salinger’s Silence

Classics Revisited
VIRGIL  Aeneid, Book 4 (translated by Ian Ganassi)

Performance Pieces
JONATHAN LEVY  Songs Without Words

Testimonies
ELIZABETH ROLLINS  Joint Custody

Appreciations
PETER WORTSMAN  Introducing Peter Altenberg
MARK RUDMAN  A Garland for Nicanor Parra at Ninety

Art
REBECCA SOLNIT  Yves Klein and the Blue of Distance

Rediscoveries
MARK TWAIN  An Encounter with an Interviewer

Contributors’ Notes

COVER ARTIST: Jennifer Riley