SUMMER 2012

To Our Readers

INTERVIEW

Anis Shivani “Look at the World as It Is”: An Interview with Sir Salman Rushdie

ESSAYS

Scott Russell Sanders The Way of Imagination
Heather Sellers Sheltered: Finding Home through the Art of Mary Brodbeck
Krista Eastman Insider’s Almanac

FICTION

Monica McFawn Out of the Mouths of Babes
Kent Nelson La Mer de L’Ouest

POETRY

Stephen Dunn The Statue of Responsibility   and   The Operation
David Wagoner Improving My Mind   and   Casting Aspersions
Lia Purpura Accident;   Belief;   and   Gratitude
Gerald Stern Immigrants   and   For Beauty's Sake
Alice Friman Behind the Door
J. Allyn Rosser Intro to Happiness

ART

Mary Brodbeck Autumn, Sleeping Bear Dunes

REVIEWS

Judith Kitchen A Question Takes (on Marvin Bell’s Vertigo: The Living Dead Man Poems and Whiteout; Jane Hirshfield’s Come, Thief; Kevin Prufer’s In a Beautiful Country; and Kevin Goodan’s Upper Level Disturbances)

Edward Butscher Angles and Angels of American Poetry (on Norman Finkelstein’s On Mount Vision: Forms of the Sacred in Contemporary American Poetry; Marjorie Perloff’s Unoriginal Genius: Poetry by Other Means in the New Century; Brett C. Millier’s Flawed Light: American Women Poets and Alcohol; and Samuel Hazo’s The Stroke of a Pen: Essays on Poetry and Other Provocations)

Benjamin Hedin on Life Sentences: Literary Judgments and Accounts by William Gass

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