Winter 2004 (Volume LVI, No. 4) The End of Immortality Memoir by David Mason Homeowner; The Guide; The Lookout Poetry by David Wagoner The Crabapple in Flower Poetry by Deborah Warren A Clutch of Mammals; A Dialogue Between the Body and Soul Poetry by Conrad Hilberry The Bridge Fiction by Cary Holladay A Hemiplegic’s Romance Poetry by Laurence Lieberman Auto Salvage; Garrison, Nebraska; The Possible Lives Poetry by Ted Kooser Character in Contemporary Fiction Criticism by Brian Phillips To Certain Students; Suspect Poetry by V. Penelope Pelizzon Maintenance; Requiem Poetry by Ethan Stebbins The Color of My Eyes Fiction by Kermit Moyer Wild Sarsaparilla Poetry by Robin S. Chapman Three A.M. and the Stars Were Out Poetry by Ron Rash The Dead: Story and Film Criticism by Irving Singer The Clothespin Bag Poetry by Patricia Hooper Case Notes Poetry by Timothy Murphy Art and Matter Arts Review by Bert Cardullo Northernness and Other Considerations: At the Museums and Elsewhere Arts Review by Karen Wilkin Ibsen Triumphant Arts Review by Richard Hornby Carnegie’s New Zankel Hall Arts Review by Robert S. Clark In Search of Chopin Arts Review by Alexandra Mullen Fiction Matters Book Review by William H. Pritchard Kingdom, Power and Glory Book Review by Louis Simpson Jean Starobinski’s History of “Reaction”: The Uses and Dangers of Metaphorical Language Book Review by Emily Grosholz In the Anteroom Book Review by Thomas M. Disch A Plague of Poets Book Review by Bruce Bawer