Summer 1996

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Summer 1996

Table of Contents

Essays

A Divine Blindness

By N. Scott Momaday

Image: Hand and Eye

By Susan M. Gray

The Lake

By Albert Goldbarth

Winged Man and Flying Ships: Of Medieval Flying Journeys and Eternal Dreams of Flight (translated by Steve Hartman)

By Peter Nilson

Fiction

Elegy for Miss Beagle

By Marjorie Sandor

Sad Hour

The Talk Talked Between Worms

By Lee K. Abbott

Poetry

Elbow Notes

By Martha Elizabeth

Flood

For the Second

By Gilbert Allen

Hermit Crab

Homage to Szymon Laks

Letter to Hugo from Later

By Jane Hirshfield

Listening to Casals & All at Once Gone into Another

By Anthony Petrosky

Nothing Human

By Sarah Gorham

Postcards to an Aphorist

Sycamores

By Margaret Gibson

The Daily News

By William Wenthe

The Fourth of July

By Keith Ratzlaff

The Plot

By Philip Miller

The Queen of Sheba

Under Water

By Alice Friman

Virtuoso

By Brandon Kershner

Write Funnier Jokes

By Andrew Fenwick

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

By Karen Weekes

on Museums of the Mind: Magritte’s Labyrinth and Other Essays in the Arts by Ellen Handler Spitz

By Melissa Knox

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)

By Judith Kitchen