SPRING 2013

To Our Readers

SPECIAL FEATURE: Mary Hood: How She Went Further

Some Stranger’s Bed (fiction)
William Walsh The Woman Who Almost Bolted: An Interview with Mary Hood
“I Seem to Write You Everything”: Selected Letters to Stanley W. Lindberg, 1982–89 (Introduction by Douglas Carlson; Commentary by Stephen Corey)
Breaking It (essay)

ESSAY

Nancy Geyer Black Plank

FICTION

Lynn Schmeidler Half Lives
Ginger Eager Surrender

POETRY

David Clewell In 1966 Debbie Fuller Was Sweet on Pluto   and   At the Convention of State Librarians, I Should Have Been Preaching to the Choir
Andrea Hollander Portrait with Purple Shroud   and   Blue
Lola Haskins Two Uncertainties
Alice Friman Aunt Nellie’s Walk   and   The Brain
Albert Goldbarth The Song of the Unnameable Thing;   Oh;   An Explanation of the Mechanics of Her Marvelous Invention;   My Personal Mythology;   and   1,000 (Exactly)
Anya Silver Valentine Godé-Darel (1873–1915): Five Paintings by Ferdinand Hodler

ART

Amze Emmons Refugee Architecture and Other Systems of Daily Experience

REVIEWS

Kevin Clark Canonicity and the New (on Lisa Lewis’ Burned House with Swimming Pool; David Wojahn’s World Tree; Susan Wood’s The Book of Ten; and Yusef Komunyakaa’s The Chameleon Couch)

Matthew Bryant Cheney on Flannery O’Connor: The Cartoons edited by Kelly Gerald

Gary Kerley on Agee at 100: Centennial Essays on the Works of James Agee edited by Michael A. Lofaro

CONTRIBUTORS