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Editor’s Note

Poetry
ELIZABETH SPIRES  House of String  /  Light Like Water
WILLIAM FARGASON  Aquarium  /  Birthmark
TROY JOLLIMORE  Critique of Judgment  /  The Apples
DAVID HERNANDEZ  Dear Gun  /  Master Sommelier Blind-Tastes a Glass of Water
KELLI RUSSELL AGODON  Braided Between the Broken
REBECCA MORGAN FRANK  Caught  /  Ministry of Ostriches
ELIZABETH T. GRAY JR.  Devi: The Goddess
CARL PHILLIPS  Spring  /  By Force
RACHEL RICHARDSON  Shearwater  /  Anemones
CAMPBELL MCGRATH  Lux Australis
MELISSA STEIN  Portrait of my family as a pack of cigarettes

Fiction
GLEN POURCIAU  Stereopticon
RICARDO NUILA  At the Bedside
LAURA LEE SMITH  Unsafe at Any Speed
DAVID GUTERSON  Feedback
POLLY ROSENWAIKE  Tanglewood
STEVEN HEIGHTON  Shared Room on Union
JUAN JOSÉ SAER  Thursdays at La Giralda (translated by Steve Dolph)

Explorations
VALERIA LUISELLI  Stuttering Cities (translated by Christina MacSweeney)

Reflections
JOSHUA HARMON  The Itchy Glowbo Blues
KATHRYN KRAMER  The Holy Grail

Reader’s Notebook
JEHANNE DUBROW  Sharpened Light: On Larkin’s “Sad Steps”

Art
FRANCIS-NOËL THOMAS  Rogier van der Weyden and James Ensor: Line and Its Deformation

Cultural History
RÜDIGER SAFRANSKI  Wagner Overthrows the Gods (translated by Robert E. Goodwin)

Translations
ESTHER TUSQUETS  Two Old Friends / Always the Sea (translated by Barbara F. Ichiishi)

Recollections
LARRY I. PALMER  The Haircut

Rediscoveries
W.C. BROWNELL  New York After Paris

Contributors’ Notes 

Cover Artist  RAÏSSA VENABLES