Table of Contents

Fiction
Peter Bricklebank “The Guardian”
Herman Levy “The Battle of the Argonne Forest”
Joe Ashby Porter “Roof Work”
Berniece Rabe “Whillie the Masseuse”
Don Zancanella “Nativity”

Poetry
Hugh C. Abernathy, Jr. “Next to Nowhere and Close to Everything”
Renee A. Ashley “Not the First Snow”
Lynne H. deCourcy “Changing the Gown”
Stanley A. Fellman “What Bird Song Remains”
James Grabill Two Poems
Jerry Harp “Gathering”
Michael L. Johnson “The Great Horned Owl”
Greg Kuzma “Burying the Dog”
Diane Raptosh “Idaho”
Richard Robbins “How November Comes”
Biff Russ “Rodin, In Love, Unmolds His Bronze Statue of Eve”
Carolyn Reams Smith “Geophysical”
Gregoire Turgeon Two Poems

Essays
Bruce Bond Immanent Distance: Silence and the Poetry of Charles Simic

Translations
Geng Wei One Poem
Roberto Juarroz Two Poems
Jaroslav Seifert Two Poems

Translation Chapbook
Clementine Nzuji Come See Where I Was Born
Translated by Steven Rubin

Commentary
Kent Johnson Howard McCord and L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E

What We’re Reading
The Automotive History of Lucky Kellerman by Steve Heller
The Nihilesthete by Richard Kalich
A Nation of Poets translated by Kent Johnson
Second-Hand Coat by Ruth Stone