Winter 2002
New Series · Volume XXIV Number 1

contents

new voices

• Shelley Jackson • Fat
• Robert Coover • Body Games Commentary on Shelley Jackson

Fiction

• Robert Arellano • One Out of Many
• Mathew Chacko • Broadcasts from the Flood
• Gary Gildner • Come Sta? Come Va?
• John Kinsella • The Well; The Diviners
• Joyce Carol Oates • Madison at Guignol
• George Steiner • At Five in the Afternoon
• Brenda Walker • Mrs. Holland

Drama

• Anne Carson • The Mirror of Simple Souls: An opera installation libretto

Poetry

• Gary Gildner • A New Song; In Pioneer Park (later)
• Linda Gregg • Who Wants It or Not; Surviving Love; Silence and Glare; The Creature
• William Heyen • The Annunciation; Roof; Auschwitz Reich Disfigured Haiku Sequence
• Ted Kooser • Sixty-first Birthday; Praying Hands; Walking on Tiptoe
• Harriet Levin • Andromeda; The Rape Garden
• Timothy Liu • A Sunday Drive; Nor'easter Forty Miles Offshore
• Campbell McGrath • The Zebra Longwing
• Lynne McMahon • Depression Vacation; Smoketree
• Wesley McNair • Town Limits
• W. S. Merwin • Before Morning; Under the Day
• Ira Sadoff • What Kind of Man
• Betsy Sholl • Late Psalm
• Leon Stokesbury • Listening to My Mother's Comic Banter with Sackboys and Servers
• Charles Wright • Miss December
• Ellen Bryant Voigt • Apple Tree

Reviews

• Howell Chickering • Beowulf and "Heaneywulf"

  "Beowulf" translated by Seamus Heaney; Beowul translated by Seamus Heaney; Beowulf: A New Verse Translation by Seamus Heaney

• Regenia Gagnier • Oxford Occidentalism, or the Idea of America

  The Idea of Culture by Terry Eagleton

• Joanna Klink • To Feel an Idea

  Swarm by Jorie Graham