Editor’s Note
Editorial
Poetry
BRUCE WEIGL The Loop
DORIANNE LAUX The Job
D. C. BERRY Insomnia
RICHARD FROST Storm
FRANK STANFORD Death and Memory / The Kite / Sun Go Down
DAVID BAKER Among Men / Missouri / More Rain
DAVID CITINO On the Whiteness of Cocaine / Air Raid over Bari
JUDSON MITCHAM Homage / Writing / Last words
EMILY GROSHOLZ Life of a Salesman
CATHY SMITH-BOWERS The Compass / Third Floor West
WALTER MCDONALD Living on Hardscrabble
MAUREEN SEATON Poems for an Ex-Prostitute / The Cusp
JACQUELYN GAVRON Lifting My Skirt
TIMOTHY LIU The Quilt
MICHAEL KLIEN Housework / Scenes for an Elegy
RENÉE A. ASHLEY The Generosity of Souls / How I Would Steal the Child
KIM ADDONIZIO The Taste of Apples / The Sound / The Concept of God
MARK DOTY Pharoah’s Daughter
PATRICIA GOEDICKE Door/Ways / Sisters
DABNEY STUART Brothers
SÁNDOR CSOÓRI Maple Leaf / Summer, with Halo (Translated by Len Roberts and László Vertes)
ÁLVARO MUTIS A Street in Cordoba / “Un Bel Morir . . .”
/ The Wanderer’s Accounting (Translated by Alastair Reid)
AMY CLAMPITT ‘Eighty-Nine
MARK JARMAN Cloud Sketch / Northern Insomnia
LINDA PASTAN Boredom / Letters
LESLIE ADRIENNE MILLER Bliss / The Romantics
STEPHEN DUNN Working the Landscape / Ordinary Days
JUAN FILIPE HERRERA Binoculars / Iowa Blues Bar Spiritual / Norteamérica, I Am Your Scar
JAMES APPLEWHITE Slender Pines in Smoky Light / Fields’ Scroll / Imaginary Photograph
MARK IRWIN For Jackson Pollack
RICARDO PAU-LLOSA Ostiones y Cangrejos Moros / Aguas Medicinales
STUART FRIEBERT Babies in Boats / A Big Dog Pulling an Island / Black Widow at the Kitchen Window
EDWARD KLEINSCHMIDT Accident / Lead-Time / Jackpot / Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing
ALBERTO RÍOS Passing Late in The Day’s Afternoon a History / Half Hour of August
SYDNEY LEA Wedding Anniversary
PATTIANN ROGERS Why Lost Divinity Remains Lost / The Insight of Limitations / Seeing Cat Things, Human Things, God Things
ROBERT VASQUEZ Pismo, 1959 / Dia de los Muertos / At the Rainbow
GREG GLAZNER The Constant Upward Spiraling, the Cost
DARA WIER Involuntary Compulsory / Positive Response to Reasonable Request / Automatic Dialog Replacement / Torn Between Two Lovers
THOMAS REITER On Route
LEX RUNCIMAN Missouri Air / Drill
ROBERT WRIGLEY About Language / Poetry
Fiction
ROBERT OLEN BUTLER A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain
HARVEY GOSSINGER Home Burial
R. M. BOLLING Scenes
GORDON WEAVER The Way You Know in Dreams
JENNIFER EGAN Sacred Heart
MICHELLE DALLY JOHNSTON Smoke
MELISSA LENTRICCHA Someone to Watch over Me
MATTHEW GOODMAN Kerensky on Broadway
KATE MCCORKLE Me and My Shadow
PAULA SHARP Piggly Wiggly
HILARY MASTERS His Father’s Garden
VICTOR WALTER Father’s Business
Essays
ROBERT COWLEY Ghosts on the Plain
JOSIP NOVAKOVICH Byeli: The Definitive Biography of a Nebraskan Tomcat
ROGER KAMENETZ Conceiving Conception
RICHARD KATROVAS Ludvík Vaculík: An Interview
LUDVÍK VACULÍK The Last Word / Spring Is Here!
MIKLÓS VÁMOS Hungarian Blues; or, Excavated Poets’ Society
ELLEN BRYANT VOIGHT Image
AMY RICHLIN Guilty Pleasures: The Fiction of Laurie Colwin
ROBERT CANTWELL Smith’s Memory Theater: The Folkways Anthology of American Folk Music
Contributors’ Notes
COVER ARTIST: Jeff Kaufman