Winter 2005
New Series · Volume XXVII Number 1

contents

Fiction

• William Boyd • The Pigeon
• Robert Coover • Riddle
• William Henry Lewis • Potcake
• Romulus Linney • We Might As Well Talk
• Janet Peery • Great Men and Famous Deeds

Nonfiction

• A. S. Byatt • The Death of Lucien de Rubempré

Poetry

• Daniel Anderson • Thorns. Thistles
• Fleda Brown • No Heron
• Victoria Chang • Lantern Festival; Cardinal; Instinct
• Joanna Goodman • Periphrasis with a Wing Beat; Beginning with a Line from NPR
• Jerry Harp • His Intimations of Rust
• Jane Hirshfield • Nine Pebbles
• David Kirby • The Desperate Hours
• Phillis Levin • A Needle in the Sky; As Long As There Is Wind in the Trees
• Grace Schulman • B; Fifth of July
• Timothy Steele • Henry and Elvis; In a Eucalyptus Grove
• Kevin Stein • Wishful Rhetoric; Upon Witnessing My Mother Impossibly Blossom above My Father’s Deathbed
• Ellen Bryant Voigt • Harvesting the Cows
• Gary Young • Three Poems
• Kevin Young • The Sucker; The Killer 
  

Reviews

• David H. Lynn • Love and Death, and Animals Too
  Elizabeth Costello by J. M. Coetzee
• Willard Spiegelman • The Achievement of Robert Lowell
  Collected Poems by Robert Lowell, edited by Frank Bidart and David Gewanter