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Editor's Note, Robert Stewart |
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E
S S A Y S & M E M O I R S |
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7 / The Silence, Elmaz Abinader |
| 31 /
The Political Migrations of Wheat, Debra Marquart |
| 41 /
The Boy Who Ran Through Europe, Conger Beasley Jr. |
| 61 /
Riding the Dog, Thomas E. Kennedy |
| 73 /
Ballet Lesson, Anchee Min |
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P
O E T R Y |
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| 21 /
Two Poems, Sherman Alexie |
| 24 /
River, Tony Whedon |
| 26 /
Two Poems, Virgil Suarez |
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Magda of Hospice House, Maxine Kumin |
| 105 / Four
Poems, Robin Becker |
| 110 / The
Sheik's Heart, Richard Lehnert |
| 111 / The
Hand, Gary Gildner |
| 115 / Three
Poems, Albert Goldbarth |
| 133 / Little
Clarendon Street, Amy Lucas |
| 134 / Two
Poems, Steve Kistulentz |
| 138 / I
Started to Say, Michael Burns |
| 140 /
Dopplegangers, Shirley Rickett |
| 141 / One
Home Run, Charles Harper Webb |
| 142 / Change
of Plans, Peter Serchuk |
| 143 / Three Poems,
Carolyn Miller |
| 148 / Two
Poems, Daniel Lusk |
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N T E R V I E W |
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| 91 /
Description and Speculation: An Interview with Robin Becker,
conducted by Robert Stewart |
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F
I C T I O N |
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| 55 /
Legacy, Hovaness Donigyan |
| 77 /
Wakefield, Andrei Codrescu |
| 127 / The
Motion of Falling Bodies, Amy Boutell |
| 153 / The
Ultimate Film Writing Exercise, Mildred Morris |
| 159 /
Counting Sheep, Robert Rice |
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A
R T W O R K |
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| Terry Allen, paintings,
lithographs, video stills, etchings, front & back covers & pages,
6, 20, 30, 40, 60, 76, 104, 132, 152, 158. |
| James Bogan,
photographs from the Amazon, pages 122-126. |
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| 122 / About
James Bogan, a note |
| 171 /
About Terry Allen, a note |
| 172 /
Visitors' Log: The New Letters Guest Book |
| 173 /
Celebrations: News From Our Authors |
| 174 / NOTES
ON CONTRIBUTORS |