Summer 2012
Table of Contents
Essays
Insider’s Almanac
Sheltered: Finding Home through the Art of Mary Brodbeck
The Way of Imagination
Fiction
La Mer de L’Ouest
Out of the Mouths of Babes
Poetry
Accident; Belief; & Gratitude
Behind the Door
Immigrants & For Beauty’s Sake
Improving My Mind & Casting Aspersions
Intro to Happiness
The Statue of Responsibility & The Operation
Art
Autumn, Sleeping Bear Dunes
Reviews
A Question Takes (on Marvin Bell’s Vertigo: The Living Dead Man Poems and Whiteout; Jane Hirshfield’s Come, Thief; Kevin Prufer’s In a Beautiful Country; and Kevin Goodan’s Upper Level Disturbances)
Angles and Angels of American Poetry (on Norman Finkelstein’s On Mount Vision: Forms of the Sacred in Contemporary American Poetry; Marjorie Perloff’s Unoriginal Genius: Poetry by Other Means in the New Century; Brett C. Millier’s Flawed Light: American Women Poets and Alcohol; and Samuel Hazo’s The Stroke of a Pen: Essays on Poetry and Other Provocations)
on Life Sentences: Literary Judgments and Accounts by William Gass
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