Spring 2005
CONTENTS
ESSAYS
Peter Stitt, Editor’s Pages, “The Kingdom of Moroni,” Part X, 5
Joan Connor, “The World before Mirrors,” 39
Molly Hutton, “The Nature Studies of Neil Welliver,” 78
Benjamin Hedin, “A History That Never Happened: Philip Roth’s The Plot Against America” (review of The Plot Against America, by Philip Roth), 93
Mike Barrett, “An Old West Diptych,” 129
FICTION
Albert Wachtel, “Goddess,” 19
Erin Brooks Worley, “Grove,” 65
Sue Repko, “Deliverance,” 110
Cortright McMeel, “Mahler’s Ninth,” 145
POETRY
Rhoda Janzen, “Bad Breath,” “Pinched Nerve,” “Plantar’s Wart,” “Varicose Vein,” and “Winter Skin,” 32
Sherod Santos, Translations from Lyre, Lyre, Lyre: Poems from The Greek Anthology, 55
Bob Hicok, “Grounded,” “My career as a director,” and “Slow going,” 71
Pattiann Rogers, “A Philosopher of Verbs and Their Godliness Contemplates First Causes” and “Citizens in the Dominion of Heaven,” 89
Billy Collins, “Time” and “Special Glasses,” 107
Dick Allen, “B&B,” “Sea,” and “Whistling in the Dark,” 123
Paula Closson Buck, “Beetle,” “The Moment: Stone Fish,” “Night in Venice: Summer,” and “November Consolation,” 140
GRAPHICS
Neil Welliver, Paintings, 81
