Winter 2004
New Series · Volume XXVI Number 1

contents

drama

• Mark Evans Bryan • Mercury Seven with Signs Following: Part 1: Middle True

Fiction

• Alison Bundy • Episode from the History
• Lee Martin • Dummies, Shakers, Barkers, Wanderer
• Erin McGraw • The Penance Practicum
• Robert McKean • Ralphie's Clarinet
• Gao Xingjian, translated by Mabel Lee • In the Park

Nonfiction

• Rowan Ricardo Phillips • When Blackness Rhymes with Blackness: On Bard and Balladry in Robert Hayden (An Essay in Verse)
• John Rodden • The Worlds of Irving Howe

Poetry

• John Bensko • The Lost Watch
• Albert Goldbarth • The Feelers; Five Pounds
• Rachel Hadas • Folded Back
• Laura Kasischke • Inscriptions on Wax Tablets; Summer, Here
• Dana Levin • Techno; Suttee; The Washing
• Steve Orlen • Poem for Fathers and for Sons
• Alan Shapiro • The Haunting; Ghost Watch; Take Off
• Nance Van Winckel • Let Me Remind You You Are Still Under Oath
• David Wagoner • Visiting the Lady with the Plant

Reviews

• Jennifer A. Wagner-Lawlor • “Jealous of Dead Leaves”: The Reach of the
  Living Sonnet
  
  The Sonnets by William Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Orgel with an introduction by John Hollander; A Century of Sonnets: The Romantic-Era Revival, 1750-1850, edited by Paula R. Feldman and Daniel Robinson; The Penguin Book of the Sonnet: 500 Years of a Classic Tradition in English, edited by Phillis Levin; Sonnets: From Dante to the Present, selected and edited by John Hollander.