SPRING 2010

To Our Readers

ESSAYS

Reg Saner My Fall into Knowledge
Anne Goldman Questions of Transport: Reading Primo Levi Reading Dante
Laura Sewell Matter Franz Schubert Dreamt of Indians

FICTION

Anna Solomon The Lobster Mafia Story
Jack Driscoll Sky Riders

POETRY

Gary Gildner Wild
Lola Haskins The Dew-Tasters;   Drosophila;   and   Through Gumroot Swamp
Alice Friman Letter to New Zealand
Stephen Dunn The Girl in the Neon Tank Top   and   The Good News
Al Maginnes Asking the Dead to Leave
Derek Walcott The Spectre of Empire
Judson Mitcham Stroke   and   Human
James Schuyler Atlantic Snore   and   Via Della Vite
William Heyen Stablehands
Diane Seuss a meadow is a drama laid out to dry, an opera and Spirea’s covered in those clotted blooms
J. Allyn Rosser Refusal of a Lifetime;   Jill’s Apology;   Pause in the Routine;   Ambitions Futilities;   and   The Lake Isle of Shamrock.com
Linda Pastan The Maypole

ART

Kara Walker Riots and Outrages

REVIEWS

Judith Kitchen Great Expectations (on Colum McCann’s Let the Great World Spin; Graham Swift’s Making an Elephant: Writing from Within; Heather McHugh’s Upgraded to Serious; David Baker’s Never-Ending Birds; Fred Chappell’s Shadow Box; and Jess Walter’s The Financial Lives of the Poets)

Greg Johnson Reputations and Renewals (on John Updike’s My Father’s Tears; Alice Munro’s Too Much Happiness; Lydia Davis’ The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis; The Best American Short Stories 2009, edited by Alice Sebold; and The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories: The Best Stories of the Year, 2009, edited by Laura Furman)

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