Spring 2006
New Series · Volume XXVIII Number 2

contents

FICTION

• Elizabeth Altomonte • Being Chandra
• Courtney Angela Brkic • Departure
• Albert Camus translated by Carol Cosman • The Adulterous Wife
• Brad Kessler • Birds in Fall: An Excerpt
• Ron Rash • Their Ancient, Glittering Eyes
• Daniel Stern • The Advancer

Nonfiction

• Katherine Coles • Among So Many Others: Dazzling Instructions
• Linda Gregerson • Rhetorical Contract in the Lyric Poem
• Jeffrey Meyers • Malraux's Demons

Poetry

• Quan Barry • Essentialism; Deconstructionism
• Michael Collier • Bird Crashing into Window; Confessional; The Missing Mountain
• Tess Gallagher • Heart-Mirror; Offering; The Violence of Unseen Forms
• Marilyn Hacker • Le Sancerre: September
• Davis McCombs • The Elgin Marbles
• Erika Meitner • Smile! It’s School Picture Time; Absence
• Iman Mersal translated by Khaled Mattawa • Scandalize Myself; Respecting Marx; I Describe a Migraine
• Joan Murray • Funnel
• Víctor Rodríguez Núñez translated by Katherine M. Hedeen • Marco Polo’s Dilemma
• Wyatt Prunty • Two Views
• J. Allyn Rosser • Equilibrium Update
• Reginald Shepherd • Kinds of Camouflage
• Tom Sleigh • Blueprint; Achilles’ Dream; Persian Miniature; Song
• Cathy Song • Cloud Moving Hands
• Lisa Russ Spaar • Hermit Thrush
• Rabindra K. Swain • Susurrus in the Skull
• Susan Wood • Husbands and Wives