Twenty-Six - Spring 2004
I went to the world and the world was there—
not waiting, not stretching out its hands,
and I said, old earth, I would like to grow like you
that I may learn to lose my want. And I sat down.
- Nadia Herman Colburn, from "What Takes Place Takes Place Upon It"
| Fiction | |
|---|---|
| JUDITH McCORMACK | A Theory of Probability |
| ANNABEL LYON | Saturday Night Function |
| PETER BROWN | The Slaughterhouse |
| LAN SAMANTHA CHANG | Li Ang |
| BARBARA SUTTON | Maybe, Maybe Not |
| THOMAS O'GRADY | Underfoot |
| Drama | |
|---|---|
| ARTHUR MILLER | from Resurrection Blues |
| ROBERT SCANLAN | Arthur Miller's Unstinting Output |
| Poetry | |
|---|---|
| JULIANNE BUCHSBAUM | from The Dialogue of Balm |
| DAVID BLAIR | We Were Insanely Bored |
| TOM SLEIGH | Necessity Ulysses Sick< |
| BRUCE BOND | The Invisible |
| LUCIANO ERBA Translated by Ann Snodgrass |
In Jura |
| JEAN ESTEVE | House of Ice |
| VIVEK NARAYANAN | Scenes from a Space Odyssey Primitive Lament (Money) |
| GERARD MALANGA | The Further Adventures of... gaberdine |
| KATHRYN STARBUCK | Ali Pahsa, the Butcher of Ioannina Where the Desert Begins |
| AVIYA KUSHNER | Isaiah Gets Feisty, Chapter 28 |
| ULF KIRCHDORFER | Long and Short |
| NADIA HERMAN COLBURN | All Those Ordinary Days What Takes Place Takes Place Upon It |
| GABRIEL WELSCH | The Expensive View |
| BRYAN DIETRICH | 78 |
| STEVEN CRAMER | That'll Be the Day: |
| MAGGIE DIETZ | The Interview |
| DANIEL COUDRIET | Reservations |
| CHRIS WALLACE-CRABBE | Those Celestial Harmonies |
| Essays | |
|---|---|
| JANE BROX | Ghost Countries |
| PATRICIA VIGDERMAN | Manatees |
| DEBRA ANNE DAVIS | Fighting the Devil by Killing the Angel |
| HA-YUN JUNG | Personal and Singular |
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| Graphics | |
|---|---|
| PEIK LARSEN | Monotypes |
| PETER BRANDES | PAST III, photographs |
| Book Reviews | |
|---|---|
| Jennifer Barber, Rigging the Wind | Hadara Bar-Nadav |
| Tina Brown Celona, The Real Moon of Poetry | Andrew DuBois |
| Henri Cole, Middle Earth | James Sitar |
| Robert Creeley, If I Were Writing This | William Doreski |
| B. H. Fairchild, Early Occult Memory Systems... | Chard deNiord |
| David Gewanter, The Sleep of Reason | Kathleen Rooney |
| Peter Gizzi, Some Values of Landscape and Weather | Tim Peterson |
| R. C. Morgan, ed., Clement Greenberg Late Writings | Peter Campion |
| Jennifer Grotz, Cusp | Benjamin Paloff |
| Lucy Honig, Open Season | Steve Dykes |
| Fanny Howe, Gone | Meg Tyler |
| Anne-Marie Levine, Bus Ride to a Blue Movie | Robert M. Stein |
| James McCorkle, Evidences | Benjamin Paloff |
| Heather McHugh, Eyeshot | Maggie Dietz |
| Thomas McMahon, Ira Foxglove | Daphne Abeel |
| Joyelle McSweeney, The Red Bird | Andrew DuBois |
| Philip Nikolayev, Monkey Time | Christina Pugh |
| Sharon Olds, The Unswept Room | Floyd Skloot |
| Dzvinia Orlowsky, Except for One Obscene... | Cecily Iddings |
| Michael O'Siadhail, The Gossamer Wall | Sarah Kafatou |
| Rosamund Purcell, Owls Head | Marcia Deihl |
| Victoria Redel, Swoon | Joyelle McSweeney |
| Donald Revell, My Mojave | Robert Schnall |
| George Steiner, Lessons of the Masters | Jonathan Locke Hart |
| Dabney Stuart, The Man Who Loves Cézanne | Floyd Skloot |
| Larissa Szporluk, The Wind, Master Cherry... | Garth Greenwell |
| Rosanna Warren, Departure | William Doreski |
| Mona Sue, Justice Matters | Michael Shinagel |
| C. K. Williams, The Singing | Peter Campion |
