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Essays

• Man of Action, Man of Letters   David Mason   

• Lives and Misfortunes of Lorenzo Da Ponte   Antonio Muñoz Molina   
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• Goddess or Witch? The Pale Queen's Rise in Postwar British Literature   Stephen P. Joy   

Fiction

• Leah, Lamb   Dana Fitz Gale   
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Poetry

• The Visitor   Gerry Cambridge   

• Fated; Poem in Autumn   Rubén Darío   
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• Six Lessons from Rikyu   John Ridland   

• Tunneling to the Disremembered   Laurence Lieberman   

• May 8, 2012; exsultate jubilate   Rebecca Foust   

• Hildegard von Bingen; St. Catherine of Bologna   Marilyn Nelson   
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• To Hold from This Day Forward; A Music   Tom Wayman   

• Pictures of a Sea; For Lorca   R. A. Pavoldi   

• The Birch; Closing the Loop on the Year   Wendy Drexler   

• From The Duino Elegies   Rainer Maria Rilke   
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• After the Rally   Rhina P. Espaillat   
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Chronicles

• The Other Musicals   Erick Neher   
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• Yehudi Menuhin: The Childhood of a Prodigy   Frederick Brown   

• A New American   Marcia B. Siegel   
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Reviews

• Anthony Hecht's Nobility   William H. Pritchard   
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• Life and After Life   Mark Jarman   

• Recepti Scriptores and Some Others   Bruce Whiteman   

• The English Franklin   Brooke Allen   
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• When We Talk About Death   Tom Wilhelmus   

• Watery Narratives   Susan Balée   

Comments

• Letter from London   Derwent May   

• Letter from Cuba   Karen Wilkin   
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