Winter 2002
Table of Contents
Essays
From the Bardo Zone
Moments of Being: An Antarctic Quintet
The Illuminations of Bernard Faucon and Anthony Goicolea
Fiction
At the Blue Breakers
Malingerer
One Last Time, for Old Times’ Sake
Poetry
And Everything That Bears Flowers Is from Venus, and All Roots from Saturn, and Leaves from the Moon
Exposures
High Lonesome
In Another Country
In Real Life
Lesson
Mercy, Perhaps
Mirage
Ooh My Soul
Perry County Novena
Player Piano
Suddenly & Hearing Roy Orbison on the Tape Loop at Starbuck’s
That Cried to the Whole City “Sleep No More”
That’s a Take
The Singers I Prefer
Watcher over the Dead
Art
Living the Blues: The Music Makers
Reviews
Contrasting Memories of Escape and Survival (on Breaking Clean by Judy Blunt; Deep River: A Memoir of a Missouri Farm by David Hamilton; Flying Sparks: Growing Up on the Edge of Las Vegas by Odette Larson; and A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland, Indiana by Haven Kimmel)
Interlude (on Blue Dusk: New and Selected Poems, 1951-2001 by Madeline DeFrees; Waterborne by Linda Gregerson; Book of My Nights by Li-Young Lee; The Holy Worm of Praise by Philip Schultz; and Bellocq’s Ophelia by Natasha Trethewey)
Provision and Perfection (on Now That My Father Lies Down Beside Me: New And Selected Poems, 1970-2000 by Stanley Plumly)
Supporting Roles (on Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My Darling by Maura Stanton; The Price You Pay by Ellen Winter; Leaving the Neighborhood and Other Stories by Lucy Ferriss; & The Practical Heart: Four Novellas by Allan Gurganus)
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