Vol. 78 nos. 3 & 4
Spring/Summer 2012

EDITOR’S NOTE
Resilience, Robert Stewart
FICTION
Roma v. Lazio, Brian Doyle
Everything I Know of You I Know From Your Warts, Maggie Harrison
One in a Million, Gary Gildner
ESSAY
A Yeti in the District, Donald Hall
Occupying the Real West, Judy Blunt
The Girl in the Mirror, translated by Thomas E. Kennedy, Kaare Scheuer Pedersen
Shuffletown, Joseph Bathanti
The Glass Negatives, Introduction to poems, Trish Reeves
The Last Six Months, Mariko Nagai
POETRY
Two Poems, Jo McDougall
Four Poems, Venus Khoury-Ghata
Unofficial Missouri Poem, William Trowbridge
Three Poems, John Kinsella
Three Poems, Mia Leonin
Eight Poems, Trish Reeves
Birds Be With You, Rebeca Lehmann
Seeing the Elephant, Dwayne Thorpe
Incantations to Snow, Lawrence Revard
Month of Ashes, Maryfrances Wagner
Visiting the Master, Peter Serchuk
Hospital Corners, Linda Kunhardt
REVIEWS & COMMENTARIES
What a Fool, on the poetry of William Trowbridge, Gary Dop
Laughter in the Dark, the writing of men about aging, Ellen Visson
More Than Brevity, the essays of Sven Birkerts, Crystal Radley
Complicated Silence, on the poetry of Amanda Auchter, Kristina Marie Darling
For Want of Wonder, on the nature essays of Amy Leach, Andrew Johnson
Unflinching Testimony, on the poetry of Carol Frost, Alice Friman
ARTWORK
Photographs by Gloria Baker Feinstein & Kimbra Hess
Archival pigment prints by Rolf Brommelsiek