Winter 2005
Table of Contents
Essays
Maps and Stories: A Brief Meditation
One Summer: Musings about Avoidance, Temperament, and the Poem Becoming a Poem
Playing for Grace: William Matthews
Fiction
Bigamy
Monstrosities
Ordinary Life
The American Male in Serious Decline
The Problem of Evil in Hauberk, Missouri
Poetry
At the Beginning of Another War
At the Edge
Barometric
How We Practiced Being American
In This Time of War
My Mother Dreams Another Country
The Art of Fresco
The Stand-up Cell
The Telling of Grandmother’s Secret & The Land of Is
The White Ghosts
When Dylan Left Hibbing, Minnesota, August 1959 & Night Rain
Art
New Worlds
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)
From Voice to Page (on The Writer’s Voice by A. Alvarez and Poets Thinking: Pope, Whitman, Dickinson, Yeats by Helen Vendler)
on Consuming Silences: How We Read Authors Who Don’t Publish by Myles Weber
on Ogden Nash: The Life and Work of America’s Laureate of Light Verse by Douglas M. Parker
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)
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