Vol. 69 no. 4
Summer 2003
EDITOR’S NOTE
Editor’s note, Robert Stewart
FICTION
Threads on the Mountain, Pamela Schoenewaldt
The Painter, Mike Lamb
Sixteen Jackies, Lance Olsen
On the Way to Dewberry Gardens, Charlotte Forbes
The Gift of Her Hands, Jean Hanson
Panther in the Woods, Karen Bjorneby
ESSAY
High, Low, Everywhere You Go, Janet Burroway
An Infinity of Particular Things, Jodi Varon
POETRY
Avian Nights, Sherman Alexie
Five Poems, Sherman Alexie
A Byzantine Nobleman Composing Verses, translated by Aliki Barnstone, C. P. Cavafy
Quartet for Judy, David Ray
To An Old Poet, translated by William Baer, Jorge Luis Borges
Footnote, Alice Friman
Ogre, Anna Maggiore
Two Poems, Diana O’Hehir
Pythagoras, Zoe Anglesey
Meridian, Mia Leonin
Of Storytelling, Jayanta Mahapatra
Night Heron, Taylor Stoehr
Three Poems, Stuart Friebert
Billy Goat With Alzheimer’s, Tim Skeen
Three Poems, Warren Slesinger
Two Poems, Laurie Klein
Two Poems, Simon Perchik
INTERVIEW
To Put on Perfume & Make Guns, an interview with Renee Stout, conducted by Robert Stewart
REVIEWS & COMMENTARIES
The Dream of an Adequate Language, a review of essay books by Brenda Miller and John D’Agata (editor), H. L. Hix
Two American Books, a review of poetry books by B.H. Fairchild and Leslie Adrienne Miller, Jonathan Holden
ARTWORK
Mixed media artwork and sculpture by Renee Stout
Illustrations by Andy Warhol and Renee Stout