Winter 2008

CONTENTS
 
ESSAYS
James McKean, “Rootie Kazootie One Man Band,” 509
Kathryn Starbuck, “My Mother’s Theories of Child Rearing,” 529
Priscilla Long, “Solitude,” 573
Shannon Egan, “A Quiet Absorption: Paul Fenniak’s Realism,” 581
Ryan Van Meter, “First,” 593
William Jay Smith, “La Baule: Sea and Salt,” 599
 
FICTION
Harry Albert Haines, “Bodies at Rest,” 541
Emily Doak, “Spring across from West Point,” 553
Racheal Kadish, “Killer,” 615
Rosellen Brown, “Justice,” 630
Robert Oldshue, “Summer Friend,” 638
 
POETRY
Floyd Collins, “Prelude to the Sandbar Duel: 1827,” “Bonham on the Night Prairie,” “Final Assault: Interlude,” and “Cannonade,” 523
Bob Hicok, “Epithalamium,” “A theory of communication,” and “Not having nothing good to say,” 538
Linda Pastan, “Flowers” and “Boundaries,” 550
Jill Bialosky, “In Contemplation of the Husband,” “The Figure,” and “The Poet Confronts the Self,” 570
Carol Was, “Amber Necklace” and “To an Iris,” 579
Christopher Howell, “Letting Things Go” and “The Rain Is Not Discouraged,” 596
Gary LaFemina, “One Bird Feeder Feeds at Least Four Dozen Birds” and “Perspective, St. Thomas, USVI,” 612
Patricia Clark, “Mephitis Mephitis” and “Wild Turkey (Meleagris gallopavo),” 625
Jean Nordhaus, “Because of the Ghosts” and “I Was Always Leaving,” 628
Lance Larsen, “The Hunger Diaries,” 636
Marvin Bell, “The Book of the Dead Man (His Olde Ode),” 662
 
GRAPHICS
Natasha Kissell, Paintings, 585