Winter 2007

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CONTENTS
 
ESSAYS
Marcia Aldrich, “The Mother Bed,” 509
Lisa Knopp, “Fleet,” 537
Shannon Egan, “Bright Lights on Quiet Streets: Tom Keough’s Nocturnes,” 583
Benjamin Hedin, “Alice Munro: Scrpaing the Dirt off Gravestones” (review of Carried Away, by Alice Munro), 593
John Summers, “James Agee, the Anarchist Sublime,” 619
 
FICTION
Jeannette Bertles, “Blackie,” 523
Margot Singer, “Borderland,” 551
Kelly Luce, “Ash,” 571
Corinna Vallianatos, “Examination,” 605
Holly Goddard Jones, “Theory of Realty,” 635
 
POETRY
David Baker, “Stranging” and “Trillium,” 519
Deborah Bogen, “Bringing in the Sheaves” and “Charity,” 534
Lawrence Raab, “True Paradises” and “Supernatural Forces,” 548
Mark Halliday, “Chicken Salad” and “Keener,” 569
Geraldine Connolly, “Postcard from Montana,” 579
Gary Fincke, “The Anomaly Museum,” 580
Karin Gottshall, “Pretty Stories,” 582
Richard Lyons, “Suite for the Music in the Future” and “A Voice from the Spleen,” 601
Brian Brodeur, “The Last Swimmers,” 615
Maggie Smith, “Apologue (al fin de los tiempos . . .)” and “Apologue (para saber . . .),” 616
T. Alan Broughton, “Harrowing the Field,” 618
James Haug, “44 in a School Zone,” “The Cop Is on the Settee,” and “Paradise City,” 632
 
GRAPHICS
Tom Keough, Paintings, 585