Winter 1997
Table of Contents
Essays
Bread
Going to Rainbow
Pith Helmets
Rhapsody in Green
Fiction
Angela Perfidia
Ice Passages
The Lap of Luxury
Things That Women Taught Me About Water
University Life
Poetry
At the Corner of Hoover and Sparkleberry
At the Edge of a Cliff & Staying Here
Child Drawing in a Hospital Bed
Chroma & Riffing
Do Not Leave Baby Unattended
For My Mother at the End
Joseph Shows Up for the Christmas Story Three Days after His Hernia Repair
Listening to a Pavane by Gabriel Fauré
Love and Death in the Old House
Manifesto
On House Mountain
Please
Procession of All Souls
Sounds of the Resurrected Dead Man’s Footsteps #17, #34, #16, & #11
Stay
Stylization and Its Failures
The Appian Way & History of Civilization
The Apple
The Book of Monsters and Angels
The Long Marriage
They say dancing
Three Epigrams
Three Short Questions
We Were Insects and Animals
Where We Have Come
Why God Must Permit Everything
Art
The Waterworks Series
Reviews
“I Gotta Use Words…” (on The Patience of the Cloud Photographer by Elizabeth Holmes; Pears, Lake, Sun by Sandy Solomon; The Hour Between Dog and Wolf by Laure-Anne Bosselaar; Eve by Annie Finch; Candy Necklace by Cal Bedient; The Fields of Praise: New and Selected Poems by Marilyn Nelson; & Ardor: The Book of the Dead Man, Volume 2 by Marvin Bell)
Larger Concerns (on Burning Down the House: Essays on Fiction by Charles Baxter; Believers: A Novella and Stories by Charles Baxter; Hints of His Mortality by David Borofka; Because They Wanted To by Mary Gaitskill; and Bear and His Daughter: Stories by Robert Stone)
on Hello, Stranger: Beach Poems by Robert Dana
on The Blue Caterpillar and Other Essays by Sam Pickering
on The Least You Need to Know by Lee Martin
Playwrights Talking, Playwrights Writing (on Speaking on Stage: Interviews with Contemporary American Playwrights, edited by Philip C. Kolin and Colby H. Kullman; and Plays for the End of the Century, edited by Bonnie Marranca)
When Privacy Becomes Everybody’s Business (on Private Matters: In Defense of the Personal Life by Janna Malamud Smith; Life in a Day by Doris Grumbach; and Portrait of My Body by Phillip Lopate)
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