Vol. 74 no. 1
Fall 2007/2008
EDITOR’S NOTE
The Editorial Slant, Robert Stewart
FICTION
Making It to Thirty, Kenneth Gangemi
The Fruit Stand, Kenneth Gangemi
Breakfast on the West Side, Kenneth Gangemi
Red River Valley, Thomas Fox Averill
A Tour of the Country, Catherine Browder
ESSAY
A Way of Being: Some Observations on the Ends and Means of Poetry, B.H. Fairchild
The Anatomy of Torture–Villa Grimaldi, transcript by Thomas Larsen, translated by Thomas E. Kennedy, Inge Genefke
Curious Survivals: The Letter of Willa Cather, Andrew Jewell
POETRY
Two Poems, Willis Barnstone
Two Poems, Michael Blumenthal
Horse in Her, The, Elaine Sexton
My Heart, Kim Addonizio
A Marriage of Convenience, Andrew Plattner
Five Poems, Kevin Young
Reading, Adrienne Su
Two Poems, Mia Leonin
Cottonwood Lounge, The, B.H. Fairchild
Across the Borderlands, the Wind, Michelle Boisseau
The Naming, Mihaela Moscaliuc
Two Poems, David Ray
Bronze Horseman by McKenna, Desmond Egan
Class Trip: December 1963, Bill Christophersen
The First Law of Thermodynamics, David Wagoner
Two Poems, Peter Balakian
INTERVIEW
To Make a Story, an interview with Edward P. Jones, conducted by Angela Elam
REVIEWS & COMMENTARIES
Seven Notes of Advocacy and Affection For John Williams’ Stoner, Robert Day
Novels of Jazz, the Jazz of Novels, an essay review on Thomas E. Kennedy’s Copenhagen Quartet, Michael Lee
ARTWORK
Ceramics by Linda Lighton
Charcoal drawings and watercolor paintings by Nicole Emanuel
Photographs by Philip L. and Helen Cather and Alice Maud Gulbrandsen