Spring 2005
New Series · Volume XXVII Number 2

contents

new voices

• David Baker • (Commentary) On Priscilla Sneff’s O Woolly City
• Priscilla Sneff • (Poetry) from O Woolly City
  

Fiction

• Miranda F. Mellis • The Elephant Man
• Mary Rechner • Teeth
• Roger Rosenblatt • Death Explains Himself
• Anthony Winner • Squirrels
  

Nonfiction

• Brad Kessler • One Reader’s Digest: Toward a Gastronomic Theory of Literature
• Peter Rutkoff and Will Scott • Preaching the Blues: The Mississippi Delta of Muddy Waters
  

Drama

• Romulus Linney • Going after Cacciato
  

Poetry

• Jill Bialosky • The Seduction; The Poet Contemplates the Intensity of Her Emotions; The Poet Contemplates the Nature of Reality; The End of Love
• Linda Bierds • Gregor Mendel in the Garden; Terce: Gregor Mendel and Script; Sext: Gregor Mendel and the Bells; Gregor Mendel and the Calico Caps
• Robert Olen Butler • six pieces of Severance
• Martha Collins • from Blue Front
• Carl Dennis • With Benjamin Franklin; Our Generation
• Fanny Howe • A Version
• Carl Phillips • Radiance Versus Ordinary Light; Erasure; Affliction
• Charlie Smith • Winter Mornings in Kendall; Hollyhocks; Jargon
• Chase Twichell • Centaur; Dream Baby; Infant Pearls
• Terri Witek • Stomacher: 1740s; Carriage Lamp with Wasps
• David Woo • Synapse
• Charles Wright • Scar Tissue II