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Poetry
DANIELLE CHAPMAN  In Order
HAINES EASON     Farmgirl
MALCOLM ALEXANDER  The Butterfly Effect  /  Swan Song
MOLLY TAMARKIN  House Rules  /  The American Investigation
DICK ALLEN  Putting Legs on a Snake
G. C. WALDREP  Blood Ruminant
MICHAELA CARTER  When We Speak of Love
CRAIG MORGAN TEICHER  A Word
JANICE GREENWOOD  from Rimbaud in Hell
NICHOLAS SAMARAS  Approach  /  At Night
SARAH MURPHY  Swan Sonnet III  /  Swan Sonnet VI

Fiction
PETER LASALLE  The Saga of the Irish in America
TONY ELIAS  The Animal Doctor
ROB EHLE  Not the Ocean
NORMAN LOCK  The Monster in Winter
RACHEL KADISH  Love Story
GLEN POURCIAU  Bump

Literary Archives
LEO TOLSTOY  Alyósha Gorshok: Alyósha-the-Pot  (translated by Michael R. Katz)

Film Studies
TOM GUNNING  Hitchcock and the Picture in the Frame

Cultural History
PHILIP F. GURA  The Transcendentalist Commotion

Theater
JUDITH ZIMMERMAN  Tom Stoppard’s Russian Thinkers

Art
MICHAEL HELLER  Beckmann Variations

Rediscoveries
LAFCADIO HEARN  The Call to Vengeance and the Code of Self-Sacrifice in Japan

Contributors’ Notes

COVER ARTIST: Geoffrey Detrani