A Note From the Editor
Poetry
ELIZABETH SPIRES Côte D’Azur / The Watchman
JOEL BROUWER For What the Hell They Needed It For
RICARDO PAU-LLOSA Lazarus Man / Cana Man
SUBHASHINI KALIGOTLA Ascent to Calvary
RACHEL RICHARDSON Cottonmouth Song
SUSAN RICH At Middle-Life: A Romance
ERIC LEIGH My Mother Reads Tobacco Road / Results
MARTHA RHODES The Concussion / Come to Me, His Blood
JASON SCHNEIDERMAN Symbolic / Physics VII: Not Zero
DAVID YEZZI Lenten Retreat
NOVICA TADIC Armful of Twigs, Dream / About the Knife / While You Count the Stars / On a Train Station, Dream / Magpie the Witness / Someone Whispered to Me in a Dream / Amidst the Noise (translated from the Serbian by CHARLES SIMIC)
WILLIAM LOGAN Summer Almost Like Any Other / The War, the War
LYNN PEDERSEN How to Speak Nineteenth Century
Fiction
FRANZ KAFKA At the Oklahoma Theater (translated from the German by Mark Harman)
P. J. MURPHY The Party
ELIZABETH SEARLE If You Play Joni Mitchell
KARL HARSHBARGER The Fräulein
SAYZIE KOLDYS Mona, Yehya, Basma
STEVE ALMOND First Date Back
Revaluations
MARK HARMAN Kafka Imagining America: A Preface
RICK BAROT Plath’s Pheasant
Recollections
LAVINIA GREENLAW The Importance of Music to Girls
DAVID SHIELDS Notes for Eulogy for My Father
Music
BENJAMIN IVRY Mitsuko Shirai and the Art of German Lieder
Reader’s Notebook
CHARD DE NIORD The Place Where You Lie: A Reading of James Wright’s “To the Muse”
Testimonies
BRUCE MILLS Sleeping with Jacob
Literary Lives
J. M. TYREE Lovecraft at the Automat
Rediscoveries
REBECA WEST McLuhan and the Future of Literature
COVER ARTIST: Christina Saj