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Poetry
EUGENIO MONTALE The Archive / La belle dame sans merci / To a Modern Jesuit / Poetry (translated by William Arrowsmith)
GERI DORAN Daylilies of Shiloh
SUSAN KOLODNY Voices, After the Firestorm
SIDNEY WADE Stella Maris / Shore / The Word
ARTHUR RIMBAUD The Drunken Boat (translated by Mark Irwin)
HENRI COLE The Black Jacket / The Suicide Hours
SCOTT HIGHTOWER Cemetery on the Ranch
BRIAN SWANN Fractals
JEFF MOCK Self-Portrait Running with Scissors
J.D. MCCLATCHY Variations on Lines Canceled by Dickinson
RACHEL HADAS Mourning’s Dichotomy / The Night After Christmas / Motherless Fall
IAN GANASSI Virgil’s Aeneid, Book XI, Lines 532-596
AMANDA PECOR Red
Fiction
BOGDAN WOJDOWSKI from Bread for the Departed (translated by Madeline G. Levine)
JANET DESAULNIERS Roll
MERRIE SNELL Prosthetic Life
PADGETT POWELL Wayne in Love
SANDELL MORSE Midrash
Recollections
HENRYK GRYNBERG Bogdan Wojdowski, My Brother (translated by Madeline G. Levine)
MICHAEL MILBURN In the Dream Library
RACHEL HADAS The Address Book and the Bird Book
Reports From Abroad
ERIKA LEDERMAN Hong Kong Report
AIDAN PARKINSON Who Needs Enemies? Notes on an Irish Homecoming
Provocations
MARCUS KLEIN Multiculturalism and Its Discontents
Interviews
FRANK ANTHONY After Deliverance: an Exchange with James Dickey
Revaluations
DAN MCCALL Henry James’ Hawthorne
FLOYD SKLOOT The Evolving Poetry of Thomas Kinsella
Literary Criticism
CARL DENNIS What is Our Poetry to Make of Ancient Myths?
Rediscoveries
JOHN RUSKIN A Few Rules for Beginning Artists
Letter To The Editor
Contributors’ Notes
COVER ARTIST: Jeff Kaufman