Vol. 78 no. 2
Winter 2012
EDITOR’S NOTE
Editor’s Note, Robert Stewart
FICTION
We Grow Accustomed to Our Troubles, Sophie Rosenblum
Schooling, Dana Fitz Gale
Dr. Paracelsus and the Drifter, Willis Barnstone
ESSAY
City of the Dead, J. Malcolm Garcia
Toward Oceans 101, Sara Flood
The Freuds, the Tiffanys & Me, Lynn Burlingham
POETRY
Two Poems, Jeanne Marie Beaumont
Visiting the Ruins, Alice Friman
The Reckoning, Martina Evans
Four Poems, Doris Ferleger
Two Poems, Gail Hanlon
The Seasons of Language Revolt, Dan Jaffe
Three Poems, Linda Pastan
Three Poems, Stephen DunnTime Travel, Christopher Buckley
thinking back these eighty-eight years, Peter Cooley
INTERVIEW
The Freedom to Act, an interview with Harry Crews, conducted by Rodney Elrod
REVIEWS & COMMENTARIES
Salinger in His Time & Ours, on the biography by Kenneth Slawenski, Conger Beasley, Jr.
Fragments in the Bed:Review of Walk Me to Schenectady by Diana O’Hehir and Heavenly Questions by Gjertrud Schnackenberg, Robert Stewart
Like Newcomers Everywhere, Review of When We Were Strangers by Pameal Schoenwaldt, Catherine Browder
The Moment Stands Still: Poetry from Brick Books, Kristina Marie Darling
Jammed-Up Individuals, Review of Word Comix by Charlie Smith, Robert Stewart
ARTWORK
Photographs by Thomas Zvi Wilson, J. Malcolm Garcia & Robert W. Butler