Summer/Fall 2002
New Series · Volume XXIV Number 3/4

contents

nonfiction

• Sacvan Bercovitch • Deadpan Huck
• Nicholas Howe • Fast-Food America
• Amitava Kumar • Paper
• Bia Lowe • Falling
• David Wright • Writing the Real World

Fiction

• S.A. Afolabi • Now that I'm Back
• Nyi Pu Lay, translated by Anna Allott and Khin Thant Han • Country Boy
• Elizabeth Poliner • Unfinished Symphony
• Joe Ashby Porter • Scrupulous Amédée

Interview

• Jennifer Levasseur and Kevin Rabalais • Public Dreaming: An Interview with David Malouf

Poetry

• Diane Ackerman • The Savant of Sunflowers; The Apprentice of Roses
• Yehuda Amichai, translated by Karen Alkalay-Gut • The Jewish Time Bomb
• David Bottoms • Little Drop of Wickedness
• Deborah Digges • Telling the Bees; Fence of Sticks; Greeter of Souls
• Carol Frost • Driftwood; Gull
• Albert Goldbarth • The Splinter Groups of Breakfast
• Brooks Haxton • As Far as I Could Tell
• Brian Henry • Across the River
• Honorée Fanonne Jeffers • Hagar to Sarai
• Hédi Kaddour, translated by Marilyn Hacker • The Music Room; and three others
• Sarah Lindsay • Morning on Despina; Neoteny
• William Logan • Eve; Lake
• Sandra Meek • Reentering Atmosphere
• Mông-Lan • why is the edge always windy?
• D. Nurkse • Spring at Black River; Home; Cat's Eye
• Kathleen Ossip • The Pleasure of Your Company; The Flat Tire
• V. Penelope Pelizzon • Where the Arrows Fell
• Carl Phillips • As a Blow, from the West
• Stanley Plumly • Cold Pastoral; Bill's Hangover
• Eva Salzman • Professor
• Elizabeth Smither • Pieces of Eight; Variation on Bash's Snow Party; Late Summer Dew
• Lisa Russ Spaar • The Insomnia of Murasaki Shikibu
• Alison Stine • When I Taught Mary to Eat Avocado; Otto Bar
• C. Dale Young • Infidelity
• Dean Young • My People; Republican Victory

Review

• Michael Thurston • A Way to Frame the Truth

The Tether by Carl Phillips