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CONTENTS
 
ESSAYS
Eve Becker, “Final Concert,” 357
Amy Leach, “Life Like Wine,” “Complexion,” and “Talent,” 365
Maryanne Wilimek, “The Box,” 391
Suzanne Van Atten, “Box of Stones,” 413
Lee Haas Norris, “A Little Short of Perfect,” 457
Jeffrey Meyers, “Poor Tom’s A-Cold,” 479
Kristina Marie Darling, “‘The memories of so many rivers,’: Family History and the Pastoral in Recent Poetry by Women,” 487
 
FICTION
Tien-Yi Lee, “Mirands Visits the Holiday Inn,” 341
Paul Zimmer, “Brief Lives,” 377
Rob McClure Smith, “A Glasgow Rose,” 443
Tyler Fall, “Taxidermy,” 469
 
POETRY
Billy Collins, “Gold,” 356
Dick Allen, “Why Is Life So Hard?,” 363
Alice Friman, “Tracing Back,” 376
Arthur Vogelsang, “Canto Zero” and “A Letter, Please,” 388
Deborah Bogen, “Autopsy: To See for Yourself” and “To See for Yourself,” 411
Marvin Bell and Nathan Lyons, “The Book of the Dead Man: Eight Poems by Marvin Bell and Eight Images by Nathan Lyons,” 425
John Meredith Hill, “Race Point,” 442
Karin Gottshall, “The Consolation of Philosophy,” 456
Chard deNiord, “Dress Poker,” 467
Edward Nobles, “Picnic Negative” and “Slate Skies,” 477
 
GRAPHICS
Barbara Kassel, Paintings, 417