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Essay

• Shipwreck Is Everywhere   A.E. Stallings   
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Memoir

• Verdun   Kevin Honold   

Fiction

• Other Men's Fields   Mark Jacobs   
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Poetry

• The Head of the Table   Rachel Hadas   
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• Two Windows; Epiphany; Wingbanger   Cally Conan-Davies   

• The Streaming; Dream Interrupted—; S t a r r y N i g h t   Elizabeth Spires   

• The Diagnosis; The Wait; A Word   Brian Swann   
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• We Walk Invisible   Marjorie Stelmach   

• Over   Keith Ratzlaff   

• November   Robert Cording   

• The Runner   Stephen Bluestone   

• His Voice   Joan Murray   

• Remember; first snow   Rebecca Foust   

Chronicles

• Notes from the Road: Part II   Elizabeth Lyon   
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• Summer Blockbusters   Erick Neher   

• Ghosts Walking   Marcia B. Siegel   
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Reviews

• The Freedom of Montaigne   David Mason   
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• Friends: Pepys and Evelyn   Brooke Allen   

• Bloom's Falstaff   Bruce Bawer   
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• On Michael Wood on Empson   William H. Pritchard   

• Some Final Words   Susan Balée   

• A Worker in the Vineyard   Andrew Motion   
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• What Was Postmodern Poetry?   Mark Jarman   

• From Rhymed Lines to Mongrel Tongues   Robert Archambeau   

Comment

• Letter from Tuscany   Karen Wilkin