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Poetry
BOB HICOK  Singe
MARIANNE BORUCH  Light on Four Sides / All Night
JENNIFER WHITAKER  The Look of It
ALFONSINA STORNI  Lighthouse in the Night / Toad and Sea / Fog / Street / Lines to the Sadness of Buenos Aires  (translated by Orlando Ricardo Menes)
BEVERLY BURCH  Once I Watched a Great Blue Heron
VICTORIA CHANG  The Professor’s Lover
NATHANIEL BELLOWS  Russian Birch
LEE UPTON    Undid in the Land of Undone
PETER PEREIRA  Nursemaid’s Elbow
RICHARD HOWARD  Eidyia: An Interview
AVERILL CURDY  The Salmon
DAVID KOEHN  Night Lines

Fiction
BROCK CLARKE  That Which We Will Not Give
JUSTIN HAYTHE  All the Color in the World
SANDRA LEONG  The Thousand and One Faces of Mama-san
STEVE ALMOND  Hating Monet
STEPHEN SCHOTTENFELD  Stonewall and Jackson
LORI OSTLUND  The Children Beneath the Seat
STEPHEN DIXON  Winter

Literary Lives
J. M. TYREE  horeau, Whitman, and the Matter of New York
SERGEI DAVYDOV  Gogol’s Petersburg

Art
THOMAS MCEVILLEY  Modernism, Post-Modernism, and the End of Art

Reader’s Notebook
MYLES WEBER  Reflections of Peter Brook

Literary Criticism
SOLEDAD FOX  Flaubert and Don Quixote

Testimonies
HELOISE  Second Letter to Abelard  (translated by William Levitan)

Music
BENJAMIN IVRY  A Voice of the Century Past

Rediscoveries
EDITH WHARTON  The Vice of Reading
SIR SAMUEL ROMILLY  Civil Order in Paris Under Napoleon

Contributors’ Notes

COVER ARTIST: Gail Stoicheff