New Letters magazine

Volume 78 Nos. 3 & 4 (spring/summer 2012)

• Editor's Note

• 7 /

  Resilence

  , Robert Stewart

• Essays & Articles

• 25 / A Yeti in the District, Donald Hall
• 35 / Occupying the Real West, Judy Blunt
• 57 / The Girl in the Mirror, translated by Thomas E. Kennedy, Kaare Scheuer Pedersen
• 82 / Shuffletown, Joseph Bathanti
• 87 / The Glass Negatives, Introduction to poems, Trish Reeves
• 129 / The Last Six Months, Mariko Nagai

• Fiction

• 11 / Roma v. Lazio, Brian Doyle
• 111 / Everything I Know of You I Know From Your Warts, Maggie Harrison
• 159 / One in a Million, Gary Gildner

• Poetry

• 16 / A Woman Remembers Her Mother, Who Died Young, Jo McDougall
• 17 / Standing Alone at Flannery O'Connor's Grave on a Night in April, a Woman Hears a Voice, Jo McDougall
• 18 / Her eyes outlined with the stock-pot's kohl, Venus Khoury-Ghata
• 19 / Our scribbles gave the mother a visible body, Venus Khoury-Ghata
• 20 / Sometime we'd take turns standing under the skylight looking for fragments of God, Venus Khoury-Ghata
• 21 / The sky's perambulations made our houses lose their bearings, Venus Khoury-Ghata
• 22 / Unofficial Missouri Poem, William Trowbridge
• 71 / Drummond's Rose Hedge, John Kinsella
• 73 / Dear Frieda, John Kinsella
• 76 / Penillion of Draining the Cam, John Kinsella
• 77 / From the New Head of Hair To Its Child, Mia Leonin
• 78 / Nurse's Epitaph, Mia Leonin
• 79 / A Boy in a CNN Transcript Shoots Marbles, Mia Leonin
• 90 / The Glass Negatives, Trish Reeves
• 91 / Solar Noon, Tirsh Reeves
• 93 / Variation on Child's Game: Glass, Celluloid, Paper, Trish Reeves
• 95 / Empire, Trish Reeves
• 97 / The Unknown, Trish Reeves
• 99 / Elliptic Orbit, Trish Reeves
• 101 / The Boy and His Sharp-Eared Dog, Trish Reeves
• 102 / Inheritance, Trish Reeves
• 104 / Birds Be With You, Rebeca Lehmann
• 106 / Seeing the Elephant, Dwayne Thorpe
• 108 / Incantations to Snow, Lawrence Revard
• 110 / Month of Ashes, Maryfrances Wagner
• 156 / Visiting the Master, Peter Serchuk
• 157 / Hospital Corners, Linda Kunhardt

• Reviews & Commentaries

• 189 /

  What a Fool, on the poetry of William Trowbridge

  , Gary Dop
• 191 /

  Laughter in the Dark, the writing of men about aging

  , Ellen Visson
• 195 /

  More Than Brevity, the essays of Sven Birkerts

  , Crystal Radley
• 197 /

  Complicated Silence, on the poetry of Amanda Auchter

  , Kristina Marie Darling
• 199 /

  For Want of Wonder, on the nature essays of Amy Leach

  , Andrew Johnson
• 201 /

  Unflinching Testimony, on the poetry of Carol Frost

  , Alice Friman

• Artwork

• 0 / Missouri Mannequin, photograph, front cover, Gloria Baker Feinstein
• 10 / Waterfront Park 2, Portland, Oregon, photograph, Gloria Baker Feinstein
• 24 / Waterfront Park 6, Portland, Oregon, photograph, Gloria Baker Feinstein
• 49 / Dalton Hess After Her Home Run, photograph, Kimbra Hess
• 50 / Beatuy Salon, Kajjansi, Uganda, 2011, photograph, Gloria Baker Feinstein
• 51 / Twins, Union Station, Portland, photograph, Gloria Baker Feinstein
• 52 / Kajjansi, Uganda, 2011, photograph, Gloria Baker Feinstein
• 53 / West Central Missouri Girls Fastpitch Softball, photograph, Kimbra Hess
• 54 / Photograph, Estate Sale Series, photograph, Gloria Baker Feinstein
• 55 / Captain Underpants, Estate Sale Series, photograph, Gloria Baker Feinstein
• 56 / Michael & Barrett, North Park Blocks, Portland, Oregon, 2012, photograph, Gloria Baker Feinstein
• 121 / Car in Tunnel 1, 2011, archival Pigment Print, Rolf Brommelsiek
• 122 / Ice Man and Car 4, 2010, archival pigment print, Rolf Brommelsiek
• 123 / Ice Man and Car 1, 2010, archival pigment print, Rolf Brommelsiek
• 124 / Waterfront Park 4, Portland, Oregon, photograph, Gloria Baker Feinstein
• 125 / Waterfront Park 3, Portland, Oregon, photograph, Gloria Baker Feinstein
• 126 / Car in Tunnel 5, 2011, archival pigment print, Rolf Brommelsiek
• 127 / Ice Man and Car 2, 2010, archival pigment print, Rolf Brommelsiek
• 128 / Car in Tunnel 6, 2011, archival pigment print, Rolf Brommelsiek

• Notes on Contributors

• 209 /

  Notes on Contributors to This Issue

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