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Essays

• On the Experience of Fiction   Antonio Muñoz Molina   
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• Two Poets Named Dunstan Thompson   Dana Gioia   
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Fiction

• From Shanghai Far from Where   Ursula Krechel   
  Edna McCown    Full Text

Poetry

• A Narcissus; Buddleia; The Breaches   Karl Kirchwey   
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• Claws and Wings; Power Outage   Peter Makuck   

• Handbag   Maria Terrone   

• The Goose; A Song for Eleanor; 1917   Garret Keizer   

• Sorrow, Meister Eckhart said; Why is it   John Foy   
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• River Light   Robert Gibb   

• A New Earth   Jeff Hardin   

• 1986: The Hudson; Sylvia and Ted (1963)   Campbell McGrath   

• Gray's Elegy Reworked by W. S. Gilbert   John Whitworth   

• Swim for Life   Rafael Campo   
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• Rosalind, Later   Gail White   
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Chronicles

• Men and Their Egos   Erick Neher   

• Sitcom   Richard Hornby   

• At the Galleries   Karen Wilkin   

• Ohad Naharin in San Francisco   Rachel Howard   
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Reviews

• The Prose Eliot   William H. Pritchard   
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• Dream of Fair to Middling Poetry   Bruce Whiteman   

• Visions, Vessels, Voices   Lorna Knowles Blake   

• Back to the Future   Carol T. Christ   

• Saul Bellow, Human Being   James Santel   

• Gladys Schmitt: Hardly "Middlebrow"   Susan Balée   

Comments

• Letter from York   Mairi MacInnes   

• Letter from Virginia   Robert Schultz