Poetry
NATASHA TRETHEWEY Elegy / Knowledge
EDUARDO C. CORRAL Watermark
HOWARD ALTMANN Animals
MATTHEW OLZMANN Sir Isaac Newton’s First Law of Motion
GEORGE LOONEY Photo of a Cardinal
DAVID CAPLAN Since Sleep Is One-Sixtieth of Death
LARRY BRADLEY Exile / Fisherman
MARTHA RHODES Misery / Where To
DAN STRYK Alchemy of Habaneros
SHARA MCCALLUM Gravid Gravitas
Fiction
DREW JOHNSON Leave
THOMAS GOUGH The Evening’s Peace
JOANN KOBIN The Afterlife of Rita L. Stein
J.M. TYREE My Other Family
GLEN POURCIAU Son
CHAITI SEN The Travelers
CHRISTINE SNEED Interview with the Second Wife
Translations
YASUNARI KAWABATA Lyric Poem
(translated from the Japanese by PAUL MARSTON)
ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE Impressions of America: Three Letters
(translated from the French by FREDERICK BROWN)
Cultural History
IGOR LUKES The End of the Cold War: The Night the Masks Fell
JOSHUA HARMON Fugitive Music
Literary Criticism
ROBERT ALTER American Literary Style and the Presence of the King James Bible
Reflections
WILLIAM GILSON Stone Faces
(with photographs by THOMAS E. GILSON)
Rediscoveries
JEAN ANTHELME BRILLAT-SAVARIN The World of the Senses and the Nature of Taste (translated from the French by FAYETTE ROBINSON)
Contributors’ Notes
COVER ARTIST: Jennifer Riley