Summer 1995
Table of Contents
Essays
A Call to the Colors
Kalokairi
The Site, The Story
Fiction
Apotheosis
Life at the Molecular Level
Light Opera
Poetry
Advancing Back
Bottom’s Dream
Burglar Alarm
Cocktail Waitress
Dreaming of Rural America
Happiness
Once Against a Time
Orchard
Parthenopi
Still Life with Tropical Flowers
The Other End
Theft & Theory and Substance of the Night
With Crickets
Art
The Unstill Still Life
Reviews
Bit Players (on Stealing Time by Mary Grimm; Watch with Me and Six Other Stories of the Yet-Remembered Ptolemy Proudfoot and His Wife, Miss Minnie, Née Quinch by Wendell Berry; In the Walled City by Stewart O’Nan; and The Good Doctor by Susan Onthank Mates)
Can White Guys Write? (on Paper Trails: Essays by Michael Dorris; A Geometry of Lilies: Life and Death in an American Family by Steven Harvey; A Place That’s Known by Michael Pearson; and Inheritance of Horses by James Kilgo)
Fourteen Ways of Looking at Selecteds (on The Darkness Around Us Is Deep: Selected Poems of William Stafford, edited by Robert Bly; Hinge & Sign: Poems, 1968-1993 by Heather McHugh; Velocities: New and Selected Poems, 1966-1992 by Stephen Dobyns; New and Selected Poems, 1974-1994 by Stephen Dunn; Study for the World’s Body: New and Selected Poems by David St. John; Firekeeper: New and Selected Poems by Pattiann Rogers; Walking to Cootehill: New and Selected Poems, 1958-1992 by John Engels; and A Marvin Bell Reader: Selected Poetry and Prose by Marvin Bell)
Mapping America from Odd Angles (on The Lawn: A History of an American Obsession by Virginia Scott Jenkins; Watch The Skies!: A Chronicle Of The Flying Saucer Myth by Curtis Peebles; & AfterCulture: Detroit and The Humiliation Of History by Jerry Herron)
on Voices Of Decline: The Postwar Fate Of US Cities by Robert A. Beauregard
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