Vol. 70 nos. 3 & 4
Spring/Summer 2004
EDITOR’S NOTE
Editor’s Note, Robert Stewart
FICTION
Cybele, Naked, Beth Simon
Syrup and Feather, Cary Holladay
The Blind Spot, Mary Gordon
The Ice Road, William J. Cobb
Driving the Dead Man’s Car, Susan Ferguson
ESSAY
Wind-Time, Wolf-Time, Jonis Agee
On Painting Don Quixote, Luis Quintanilla
Don Quixote in the Heartland: My Father’s Murals, Paul Quintanilla
In the Dark, Thomas E. Kennedy
Zio Filippo at Summer Camp, Helen Barolini
POETRY
Three Poems, Noel Smith
Three Poems, Linda Pastan
Two Poems, Marilyn Kallet
Moon Dance, David Wagoner
Two Poem, Abe Louise Young
Three Poems, Brent Dozier
The Face You Forget Again, Amy McCann
Three Poems, Jill Osier
Two Poems, Aliki Barnstone
Goodbye to the Blockhead, David Clewell
Four Poems, Sonia Gernes
Two Poems, Linda Ramey
Singing Descant, Allison Funk
INRI, Thomas Zvi Wilson
Two Poems, Anthony Butts
Winter Landscape, Emmanuel Moses
Two Poems, Walt McDonald
We Could’ve Been Commandos, Charles Harper Webb
Two Poems, Mark Irwin
Five Poems, Jim Daniels
Three Poems, Tim Seibles
Ode for the Runners of the Municipal Race, Maura Stanton
Beyond Words, Anna Boothe
Gershwin’s Shoes at the Piano, James Ragan
Ignition, translated by Thomas E. Kennedy, Pia Tafdrup
Girl with Many Eggs, Jeanie Wilson
Song, Robert Funge
INTERVIEW
A Complicated Relationship, an interview with Mary Gordon, conducted by Angela Elam, Michael Pritchett, and Bryan LeBeau
Giant Crickets Attacking America, an interview with Tim Seibles, conducted by Remica L. Bingham
REVIEWS & COMMENTARIES
The Serious Business of Entertainment, review of fiction by Trudy Lewis, Catherine Browder
Beyond Imitation, review of fiction by Judith Kitchen, Catherine Browder
Mortal Negotiations, review of poetry by Stephen Corey, Walter Bargen
Language Stampedes, review of fiction by Gary Lutz and David Markson, Scott Bryan Wilson
ARTWORK
Fresco Panels by Luis Quintanilla
Photographs by Roger Pfingsto, Thomas E. Kennedy, and Charles Brodsky