Winter 2005

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Winter 2005

Table of Contents

Essays

Maps and Stories: A Brief Meditation

One Summer: Musings about Avoidance, Temperament, and the Poem Becoming a Poem

By Stephen Dunn

Playing for Grace: William Matthews

Fiction

Bigamy

By Charlie Smith

Monstrosities

By Cary Holladay

Ordinary Life

By Barbara Bean

The American Male in Serious Decline

By Steve Almond

The Problem of Evil in Hauberk, Missouri

By Michael Davis

Poetry

At the Beginning of Another War

By Robert Wrigley

At the Edge

Barometric

By Janet Sylvester

How We Practiced Being American

By Gregory Djanikian

In This Time of War

By Penelope Scambly Schott

My Mother Dreams Another Country

By Natasha Trethewey

The Art of Fresco

By Garrett Hongo

The Stand-up Cell

By David Wagoner

The Telling of Grandmother’s Secret & The Land of Is

By Stephen Dunn

The White Ghosts

By Richard Garcia

When Dylan Left Hibbing, Minnesota, August 1959 & Night Rain

Art

New Worlds

By Lily E. Smernou

Reviews

Between a Rock and a Hard Place (on Damned If I Do by Percival Everett; What You’ve Been Missing by Janet Desaulniers; The Pacific and Other Stories by Mark Helprin; and Sorry I Worried You by Gary Fincke)

By Kathleen Snodgrass

From Voice to Page (on The Writer’s Voice by A. Alvarez and Poets Thinking: Pope, Whitman, Dickinson, Yeats by Helen Vendler)

By Lynnell Edwards

on Consuming Silences: How We Read Authors Who Don’t Publish by Myles Weber

By Steven G. Kellman

on Ogden Nash: The Life and Work of America’s Laureate of Light Verse by Douglas M. Parker

By Louis Phillips

The Uses of Adversity: American Nature Writing in Despair (on The Heart of the Sound: An Alaskan Paradise Found and Nearly Lost by Marybeth Holleman; Liquid Land: A Journey through the Florida Everglades by Ted Levin; Absence and Light by John R. Campbell; and The Future of Ice: A Journey into Cold by Gretel Ehrlich)

By Doug Carlson