Fall 2005
New Series · Volume XXVII Number 4

contents

Fiction

• Champa Bilwakesh • The Boston Globe Personal Line
• Geeta Kothari • Missing Men
• Gregory Blake Smith • The Madonna of the Relics
• Lily Tuck • Lucky
• Kellie Wells • Digesting the Father
  

Nonfiction

• Jeffrey Meyers • George Orwell and the Art of Writing
  

Poetry

• Meena Alexander • Cold Weather Trees
• Renée Ashley • What, Sweetie?
• Bei Dao • The Rose of Time; Road Song; To Father
• Chana Bloch • Terror; The Sixth Age
• Sharon Dolin • Either / Or
• Daisy Fried • Gal Noir; Used One Speed, Princeton
• Debora Greger • Snake Bird; My First Mermaid
• Brian Henry • from Quarantine
• Bob Hicok • Quarantine
• Mark Irwin • Elegy (with Advertisement) Struggling to Find Its Hero
• Edison Jennings • Feeding the Fire; Nectar
• Rodney Jones • The Attitude; Olympiad
• Lawrence Joseph • History for Another Time
• Phillis Levin • Always the Same Face
• Campbell McGrath • Homage to Syntax
• Mong-Lan • Bangkok: City Streets; Bangkok: Royalty
• Ander Monson • Elegy for the Odd, Where it Drains, Where it Ends
• David Moolten • Golem
• Eric Pankey • Self-Portrait without a Subject
• Red Hawk • The Idea of Crocodiles
• Arthur Rimbaud, translated by John Kinsella • La Rivière de Cassis; Le Châtiment de Tartufe; Les Douaniers; Vénus Anadyomène
• Liz Rosenberg • Sex at Seventeen; The Other Woman’s Point of View; What Use
• Terese Svoboda • EZ Passitis
• Charles Harper Webb • The Freest Man Who Ever Lived
• Eleanor Wilner • Establishment; An Ode to Asymmetry; Larger to Those Who Stay
• David Wojahn • Dithyramb and Lamentation
• Robert Wrigley • Jig; Yorick