Spring 2010
CONTENTS
ESSAYS
Laura-Rose Russell, “Scented,” 5
Jack Bushnell, “The Swallows of Selborne,” 41
Tom Elliott, “A Town Somewhere,” 53
Sue Eisenfeld, “One Windy Day,” 68
Lisa Dorrill, “Fire and Ice: The Sublime Landscapes of Eric Aho,” 78
Mike Freeman, “The Feel,” 111
Jeffrey Meyers, “Theme and Variations: Lady Chatterly’s Lover and L. P. Hartley’s The Go-Between,”120
Kristina Marie Darling, “‘This desire for linkage’: Form, Narrative, and History in Four Recent Poetry Collections by Women,“ 147
FICTION
Ian Randall Wilson, “Keep to the Pocket Concept,” 19
John Fried, “Chicago,” 89
Kurt Rheinheimer, “Philadelphia,” 99
Bradford Kammin, “Cereal Days,” 136
POETRY
John W. Evans, “Corn Snake” and “Almanac,” 14
Caroline Finkelstein, “Here,” 40
Maurya Simon, “Birth” and “A Slow Death, ” 51
Nathaniel Perry, “Drainage, The Farm to Choose,” “Poultry,” and “Remaking a Neglected Orchard,” 64
Martha Zweig, “Contretemps” and “Pinch Me,” 76
Traci Brimhall, “Dueling Sonnets on the Railroad Tracks,” 98
John Mann, “Don’t Trust Yourself, Five Reactions to Being,” and “It Is Sweet and Fitting,” 108
Oliver Rice, “About Thomas Bulfinch” and “Peace, I Lipspeak to the Polkadot Grouper,” 118
Gretchen Steele Pratt, “Church by the Sea” and “Everything the Color of Ferns,” 134
Weston Cutter, “Outside/A/War,” 145
GRAPHICS
Eric Aho, Paintings, 81