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Poetry
MARINA TSVETAEVA  Poem of the Hill (translated by Mary Jane White)
DELISA MULKEY  A Microcosm of the Human Condition
JAMES HOCH  Fulgarite  /  Ocean  /  Field Razing, Nickel Mines, PA
PETER COOLEY  June 20, 2006  /  Poem I Can Only Write Today
JENNIFER CHANG  Pursuit  /  Night Swim
DEBORA GREGER  In the Heart of England
ELLEN HINSEY  Report on the Descent  /  Transcript
KEITH EKISS  Landscape with Saguaros
RON DE MARIS  Palms and Prayer
VICTORIA CHANG  Ars Poetica as Birdfeeder and Hummingbird
NICOLE COOLEY  Old Gulf Coast Postcards  /  Bayou Le Batre

Fiction
CHRISTINE SNEED  Quality of Life
E. V. SLATE  Purple Bamboo Park
STEPHEN COYNE  The Mercy of the World
F. D. REEVE  Entrances and Exits
ANTHONY VARALLO  Parade Rest
BEVERLY JENSEN  Gone
EMILY MITCHELL  Lucille’s House

Literary Lives
MARK RUDMAN  The Book of Samuel

Cultural History
GINO SEGRE  Faust in Copenhagen
MICHAEL KRAUS  Did the Charter 77 Movement Bring an End to Communism?

Documents
ANNE-MARGUERITE PETIT DUNOYER  Reports (Some Scandalous) from Eighteenth-Century France  (translated by Nancy O’Connor)

Reevaluations
FRANCIS-NOEL THOMAS  Last Looks: Reflections on the Face of Death

Rediscoveries
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON  The Ideal House

Contributors’ Notes

COVER ARTIST: Howard Buchwald