Fall 2004
New Series · Volume XXVI Number 4

contents

new voices

• Samantha Simpson • Generations: An Excerpt from Novella

young writers

• David H. Lynn • (Commentary) On the Kenyon Review Poetry Prize for Young Writers
• Robin Myers • A Birth
• Madeline Weinstein • Art Appreciation
• Laura Bennett • Spilled Rice

Fiction

• Catherine Brady • Seven Remedies
• Kit Coyne Irwin • Blind Spot
• James D. Redwood • The Photograph

Nonfiction

• Robert Alter • Balaam and the Ass: An Excerpt from a New Translation of the Five Books of Moses
• Robert Hahn • ‘Drawing by Michelangelo, Color by Titian’: Of Originality, Influence, and the Poetry of John Koethe
• Claire Messud • Then
• Patricia Vigderman • The Task of the Translator

Poetry

• Jean Arasanayagam • The Sutradhar–Narrator of Fragments from Family Sagas
• Tenaya Darlington • Evening & Utero; Petition;Pomme Prisonniere
• Guy Goffette, translated by Marilyn Hacker • The Forgotten Traveler; To Cavafy
• Jason Gray • Letter to the Unconverted
• John Koethe • The Middle of Experience; This Morning; Sally’s Hair
• Philip Levine • My Father in the Wind; Morning in Liguria;The Death of Mayakovsky
• Dionisio D. Martínez • They Shoot Birds
• Alan Michael Parker • Elephants and Butterflies