Vol. 34, No. 2 (2013)

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Poetry
SEAMUS HEANEY   Du Bellay in Rome
CODY HEARTZ   Nor’easter
LAURA KASISCHKE   Green / Nine Herbs / The Owls
DANA LEVIN   The Point of the Needle
ROSS WHITE   Quae Nocent Saepe Docent / Notes on the Oracle
DAVID WOJAHN   Chalk Line
MARK BIBBINS   Grief!

Fiction
NORMAN LOCK   A Theory of the Self
EMILY MITCHELL   Three Marriages
AMANDA HAAG   Little Girl’s Point
LINDSAY HILL   from Sea of Hooks
T. L. KHLEIF   The Damascus Players
CAITLIN HAYES   Rough
MEGAN STAFFEL   Arrogance
STEPHEN DIXON   Cochran

Literary Lives
PAUL MULDOON Seamus Heaney’s “Du Bellay in Rome”
GEORGE MONTEIRO Near Encounters with Elizabeth Bishop

Cultural History
RICHARD TILLINGHAST From Venice to Tipperary

Art
PETER PLAGENS Confessions of a (Six-) Figure Painter

Reports from Abroad
ELLEN HINSEY Putin Cracks Down: The Russian Presidential Election and Its Aftermath
MARIAN CROTTY It’s New Year’s Eve, and This Is Dubai

Music
GREG VITERCIK Britten’s Last Major Work and the Echoes of Death in Venice

Rediscoveries
CONSTANT Napoleon’s Nightmare

Contributors’ Notes

Cover Artist MARGARET WITHERS