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Essays

• On the Inner Lives of Ghosts   Antonio Muñoz Molina   

• Caves, Masks, and Code Switching: The Inventive Narratives of Junot Díaz   Susan Balée   

Memoir

• Excerpts from a Life, with Marilyn Horne Wailing in the Background   Jayme Stayer   
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Poetry

• An Open Letter to Petros Solomon   Frederick Turner   

• Rural Proletarian Children, 1914   Adam Kirsch   
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• That of Which Joy Is the Desiring; Only   Rebecca Foust   

• Letter Never Sent; Hurricane; Love in the Afternoon; Division; Fool's Gold   Grace Schulman   

• The Highest Emblem in This Cipher of a World   Robert Schultz   

• Saturday Night; After Dark   Mark Kraushaar   

• The Art Colony   William Logan   

• Looking Down at a Friend   E. M. Schorb   

• Figure: After Quevedo   William Carlos Williams   

• Feeney in Lent; Winter in the Woods   Timothy Murphy   

• Farewell, Thou Child of My Right Hand, Loved Boy; Driving to Dr. Foster's; A Clearing   John Ridland   
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• Elegy for the Neighbor's Weeds   Debora Greger   

• Letter to My Mother; Fall Sequence   Patricia Hooper   
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Chronicles

• Terror, Terror Everywhere   Brooke Allen   

• At the Galleries   Karen Wilkin   

• Brecht and the Spring Theater Season   Erick Neher   

Reviews

• Epistolary Cather   William H. Pritchard   
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• From the World of Men   Alan Davis   

• Immiti Consumptus Morte Tibullus   Bruce Whiteman   

• The Unseeable, Unsayable World   David Mason   

• A Poet's Life in Letters   Mark Jarman   

• Backward Glances   Meg Schoerke   
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Comment

• Letter from London   Derwent May