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Poetry
RON DE MARIS  Parrot Fish / The Owl of Sleep
DOUGLAS GOETSCH  Why the World Is Yours
WILLIAM LOGAN  On the Prairie
KEVIN PRUFER  Playground /   Leukotomy
PAISLEY REKDAL  Poisons /   Cherry
MARK RUDMAN  Sons and Lovers Recovered!
MARK BIBBINS  Brightening Elsewhere
MICHAEL COLLIER  About the Moth
CHARLES JENSEN  Clean Slate
LAURA KASISCHKE  Miss Congeniality /   At Gettysburg /   Elegy /
DAVID WOO  On Failing to Write a Poem Against the War

Fiction
NORMAN LOCK  The Captain Is Sleeping
CASTLE FREEMAN, JR.  Driving Around
JAN ELLISON  The Company of Men
F. D. REEVE  The Lady with the Red Car
SHEILA HEIT  Ticknor, Beginning
ALYCE MILLER  Aftershock

Translations
ABOLQASEM FERDOWSI  The Legend of Seyavash (translated by Dick Davis)

Literary Lives
FREDERICK BROWN  Flaubert Comes of Age

Film
ROBIN BLAETZ  In the Absence of Marjorie Keller

Reader’s Notebook
ROB HARDY  Theodore Roosevelt and the Masculine/Feminine Complex

Revaluations
MICHAEL WOOD  Notes on Candide

Rediscoveries
FRANZ BOAS  The Mental Attitude of the Educated Classes

Contributors’ Notes

COVER ARTIST: Orit Raff