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Vol. 15, No. 1 (1993)

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Editor’s Note

Fiction
CHARLES BAXTER  Gershwin’s Second Prelude
ANN BEATTIE  Octascope
RAYMOND CARVER  If It Please You
JENNIFER EGAN  Sacred Heart
LOUISE ERDRICH  The Plunge of the Brave
JOYCE CAROL OATES  The Crying Baby
GRACE PALEY  Anxiety
W.D. WETHERELL  Nickel a Throw

Poetry
JORGE LUIS BORGES  Things that Might Have Been
LUCIE BROCK-BROIDO  Elective Mutes
HAYDEN CARRUTH  Eternity Blues
RAYMOND CARVER  Alcohol
AMY CLAMPITT  Keats at Chichester
STEPHEN DOBYNS  Cemetery Nights II
RITA DOVE  The Oriental Ballerina
NORMAN DUBIE  A Dream of Three Sisters
STEPHEN DUNN  Kansas
RICHARD EBERHART  A Dream
JOHN ENGELS  Autumn Poem
TESS GALLAGHER  Black Pudding  / Ebony
ALBER GOLDBARTH  Donald Duck in Danish
JORIE GRHAM  An Atichoke for Montesquieu
ROBERT HASS  Calm / Shunga
SEAMUS HEANEY  Field Work / The Birthplace
JUAN FELIPE HERRERA  Iowa Blues Bar Spiritual
EDWARD HIRSCH  My Father’s Back
GARRETT KAORU HONGO  Village: Kahuku-Mura
RICHARD HUGO  Piping to You on Skye from Lewis
DAVID IGNATOW  Sleepy
MARK JARMAN  Lost in a Dream
RODNEY JONES  The First Birth
DONALD JUSTICE  In the Attic / Thinking About the Past
BRIGIT PEGEEN KELLY  Imagining Their Own Hymns
RICHARD KENNEY  The Evolution of the Flightless Bird
EDWARD KLEINSCHMIDT  To Remain
YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA  Starlight Scope Myopia
MAINE KUMIN  Shelling Jacobs Cattle Beans
STANLEY KUNITZ  Route Six
SYDNEY LEA  Wedding Anniversary
PHILIP LEVINE  Belief / Above Jazz
LINDA MCCARRISTON  Second Marriage
WILLIAM MATTHEWS  Bmp Bmp
JOHN MONTAGUE  Foreign Field
SHARON OLDS  Parts of the Body
MARY OLIVER  A Poem for the Blue Heron
ROBERT PINSKY  Flowers
STANLEY PLUMLY  Waders and Swimmers
CHARLES SIMIC  Navigator
DAVE SMITH  Crab
GERALD STERN  All I Have are the Tracks / My First Kinglet
LEON STOKESBURY  Unsent Message to My Brother in His Pain
ROBERT PENN WARREN  Weather Report / Snowshoeing Back to Camp in Cloaming / Timeless, Twinned
ROSANNA WARREN  Antietam Creek
C.K. WILLIAMS  Artemis / The Dirty Talker, Boston / Shame
CHARLES WRIGHT  Self-Portrait

Essays
ROBERT CANTWELL  He Shall Overcome: Pete Seeger
ELEANOR CLARK  Under the Sign of The Bison
TERRENCE DES PRES  Self/Landscape/Grid
ROALD HOFFMANN  Natural/Unnatural
JONATHAN HOLDEN  Postmodern Poetic Form: A Theory
PHILIP LEVINE  The Holy Cities: Detroit, Barcelona, Byzantium
SAMUEL F. PICKERING  Taking the Night Plane to Tulsa
NANCY WILLARD  Close Encounters of the Story Kind

COVER ART: Jeff Kaufman

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