Spring 2012
Table of Contents
Special Feature
Eudora Welty: All Serious Daring Starts from Within (essay)
Forby and the Mayan Maidens (fiction)
In Praise of Surrealism & In Praise of the Ordinary (poems)
In the Lion’s Cage (poem)
Isogloss: Language and Legacy on Mount St. Helens (essay)
Leaving Duck Creek (essay)
Left Behind; Decoration Day; & Living Tree (poems)
Making Friends, and the Book of Friendship, with Eudora Welty (essay)
Mourners, Onlookers, Gawkers (poem)
The More Mysterious: An Interview with Robert Morgan
Voice in the Whirlwind (essay)
Fiction
Squeeze Me, I Sing
Poetry
Easter Afternoon
Mythology
Proud Flesh
Siren Song
We’re Small on the Rim
Words Fail the Winning Athlete & The News from Poetry
Art
Bottom of da Boot: Losing the Coast of Louisiana
Reviews
All Possible Worlds (on Josie Sigler’s Living Must Bury; Harmony Holiday’s Negro League Baseball; David Clewell’s Taken Somehow by Surprise; Kathleen Graber’s The Eternal City; and Maxine Scates’s Undone)
It’s All in the Details (on Charles Baxter’s Gryphon: New and Selected Stories; Ann Packer’s Swim Back to Me; Ernest J. Finney’s Sequoia Gardens: California Stories; Phillip Sterling’s In Which Brief Stories Are Told; & Amina Gautier’s At-Risk)
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