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SUMMER 2011


To Our Readers

SPECIAL FEATURE
Stephen Dunn: Many a Beautiful Strangeness

Stephen Dunn A Great Celebration;   The Puritan and the World;
 Landscape with Friends
;   Quieter;   and   Before We Leave (poems)
Laura McCullough Relentlessly Interesting: An Interview with Stephen Dunn
Stephen Dunn Brief Answers to Unspoken Questions: An Intraview
Laura McCullough Between Worlds, Refuge: Stephen Dunn and the
 Creative Writing Workshop
Kathleen Graber In-Dwelling Stephen Dunn in Deadwood
George Looney  Stephen Dunn: The Desire to Keep Saying Yes


ESSAY

Jed Rasula Wagnerism: A Telephone from the Beyond


FICTION

Karen Laws Paolo’s Turn
Jacob Sullins 12 Rounds


POETRY

Alice Friman Red Camellia;   How It Is;   and   The Birthmark  
Lola Haskins This Is How We Go Forward
Robert Cording Elegy for an Idea
Sarah Gordon Acta Sanctorum
Dave Smith Acetylene
Sydney Lea June, with Birds
Billy Collins Drinking Alone


ART

The Date Farmers Hecho en Indio


REVIEWS

Judith Kitchen Walking the Line (on James Richardson's By the Numbers; Robert
 Wrigley's Beautiful Country; Elizabeth Bradfield's Approaching Ice;
 and Robert Cording's Walking with Ruskin)

Greg Johnson Barding Around (on Robert Frost Speaking on Campus: Excerpts
 from His Talks, 1949–1962
, edited by Edward Connery Lathem; Maxine Kumin's
 The Roots of Things: Essays
; Mark Doty's The Art of Description: World
 into Word
; Ellen Bryant Voigt's The Art of Syntax: Rhythm of Thought,
 Rhythm of Song
; Dean Young's The Art of Recklessness: Poetry as
 Assertive Force and Contradiction
; Kelly Cherry's Girl in a Library:
 On Women Writers and the Writing Life
; and Fanny Howe's The Winter
 Sun: Notes on a Vocation
)

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