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Poetry
CHASE TWICHELL   The Dark Rides / Math Trauma
KERRY JAMES EVANS   A Good Hunt
LAURA KASISCHKE   They say / Rain
DEBORA GREGER   To an Oriental Poppy in an Easterly Breeze / In the Ruins of Memory
EVA HOOKER   Working Methods
DICK ALLEN   The Beginner
DILRUBA AHMED   Thinking of His Jaywalking Ticket While Boarding a Plane at SFO
JEHANNE DUBROW   Oenophilia
DAVID YEZZI   Bed of Roses
LYNN DOMINA   I’ve Heard Stories
JOANIE MACKOWSKI   Case Study in Metamorphosis
CHRISTIAN WIMAN   Darkcharms

Fiction
LUCY BERRINGTON   Love Good Hate Evil
GEOFFREY BECKER   Black Days
EDWARD HARDY   Welding
ARLYNN LEIBER PRESSER   The Archivist Says Goodbye to His Daily Routine
GARY LEE KRAUT   Simma Klepper Is Dead
NORMAN LOCK   The Transfiguration of Alessandro Comi

Revaluations
THEODORE LEINWAND   Ted Hughes Reads the Complete Shakespeare

Literary Lives
DAVID C. DOUGHERTY   Mr. Elkin and the Movies

Interpretations
PAUL BOURGET   The Example of Baudelaire (translated by Nancy O’Connor)

Art
MICHAEL MILBURN   Inverted Worlds

Recollections
MICHAEL COFFEY   Free Jazz

Cultural History
KATE CAMBOR   Freud in Paris

Rediscoveries
ERASMUS DARWIN   The Mysteries of the Portland Vase

Contributors’ Notes

COVER ARTIST: Tim Fitts