Summer 1996
Table of Contents
Essays
A Divine Blindness
Image: Hand and Eye
The Lake
Winged Man and Flying Ships: Of Medieval Flying Journeys and Eternal Dreams of Flight (translated by Steve Hartman)
Fiction
Elegy for Miss Beagle
Sad Hour
The Talk Talked Between Worms
Poetry
Elbow Notes
Flood
For the Second
Hermit Crab
Homage to Szymon Laks
Letter to Hugo from Later
Listening to Casals & All at Once Gone into Another
Nothing Human
Postcards to an Aphorist
Sycamores
The Daily News
The Fourth of July
The Plot
The Queen of Sheba
Under Water
Virtuoso
Write Funnier Jokes
Art
There and Back
Reviews
Avoiding the Avid Copiers: Six Recent Chapbooks (on Rooms by the Sea by Mary Ann Samyn; News of Loss by Robert DeMott; The Country’s Way with Rain by Margot Fortunato Galt; The Family Way by Richard Frost; Shorelines by Peter Makuck; and Ribbon Around a Bomb by Lucinda Grey)
on Housekeeping in a Dream by Laura Kasischke
on Listening to Mozart by Charles Wyatt
on Museums of the Mind: Magritte’s Labyrinth and Other Essays in the Arts by Ellen Handler Spitz
The Ladybug and the Universe (on Passing Through: The Later Poems, New and Selected by Stanley Kunitz; New and Selected Poems by Donald Justice; Odd Mercy by Gerald Stern; & Honorable Amendments by Michael S. Harper)
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