Summer 2004

CONTENTS
 
ESSAYS
D. R. Cruikshank, “The Toad Picture,” 187
Elizabeth Weld, “Your Suitcase Is Heavy,” 219
Norma Marder, “A Body of Secrets,” 235
Molly Hutton, “The Watercolors of Frederick Brosen,” 246
James McKean, “Learning to Fight,” 285
Diane Comer, “Meditation in I,” 303
Kristin Bair, “The Bear,” 322
 
FICTION
Charles Yu, “The Man Who Became Himself,” 173
Akshay Ahuja, “Tenanting,” 201
James Magruder, “You’ve Really Learned How,” 263
Marlene Roberts, “The Square Root of Reason,” 309
 
POETRY
Judith Vollmer, “In Praise of Camus at the End of His Century” and “Talking with My Nephews,” 184
Mark Kraushaar, “We Regret to Inform,” “This Is What Happened,” and “Everything,” 196
Scott Brennan, “Contentment” and “Italian,” 216
Dean Young, “Venus,” “Ephemeroptera,” and “Ghost Grease,” 229
Carol Frost, “Drowned” and “Man So Bronzed,” 244
Alice Friman, “Waiting,” “The Iron Cross,” “The Color of Ineffable,” “The Black Tupelo,” and “The Bad Tooth,” 257
Brian Brodeur, “Reunion,” “Blue Collar,” and “The Brunch,” 282
Alan Michael Parker, “Dog Drinking from the Bowl,” “The Horses at the Edge of the Field,” and “Oh, What a Red Sweater,” 297
Stefi Weisburd, “Five Kinds of Weather Roll across Texas,” 307
Rebecca Givens, “One Faculty” and “Blessing,” 320
Gary Fincke, “The 1918 House,” 326
Oliver Rice, “Timely Enumerations Concerning Sri Lanka” and “Whom No Priest Can Absolve,” 328
 
GRAPHICS
Frederick Brosen, Paintings, 249