Summer 2011

CONTENTS
 
ESSAYS
Kathryn Starbuck, “Taking Kotex to Inoussas,” 191
John Nelson, “Bad Birds,” 201
Kate Mele, “The Eternal Flame,” 231
Kristin Bair O’Keeffe, “Stacking Wood,” 243
John Drury, “The House That She Designed,” 257
Melissa Kwasny, “Dové il Tevere?,” 279
Sarah Katharina Kayß, “Contemporary History in Fifteen Minutes: A German Perspective,” 293
Aaron Gilbreath, “A String of Maybes: Speculating the Elusive Charles Portis,” 315
 
FICTION
Timothy Hedges, “Civil Twilight,” 173
Sara Majka, “Boy with Finch” 213
M. C. Armstrong, “The Seventy-Fourth Virgin,” 265
Sukhee Ryu, “Buddha Jumps over the Wall,” 299
 
POETRY
Rebecca Hazelton, “Elise as Marie Antoinette at Her Toilette” and “It’s Springtime, Elise, and You’re Missing All of It,” 188
Stanley Plumly, “Dark Wine” and “Nature,” 199
Brian Swann, “General History” and “Dame Edna, Judy Tenuta, and John Ashberry,” 210
Abigail Cloud, “After Failure,” “The Christening,” and “The Girl with Enamel Eyes,” 228
William Hathaway, “Red Squirrel Morning,” 239
Gerard Malanga, “Charles Méryon, 1821–1868” and “Nino Rota,” 241
Caroline Finkelstein, “Tybee Island,” 247
Boyer Rickel, “Elegiac,” 248
Bruce Beasley, “Having Read the Holy Spirit’s Wikipedia,” 261
Bethany Schultz Hurst, “Complications of a late Freeze” and “Every Couple before Us,” 277
David Mason, “Abide the Time,” “An Early Dark,” and “Gestures Toward,” 290
Saara Myrene Raapana, “Given and Shed,” 298
David Wagoner, “Below the Raven’s Nest” and “Taking Leave of My Senses,” 313
Lawrence Dugan, “Lighting the Fire in Brooklyn” and “Tinicum,” 329
 
GRAPHICS
Catherine Tuttle, Paintings, 249