Winter 2024 (Volume LXXVI, No. 4) ESSAYS The Silencing of Ophelia Robert Crossley Full Text Bright Medusas Beth Gutcheon Full Text FICTION The Half Hour Bob Johnson Full Text Book Words; Arch of Flowers Mark Jacobs Full Text POETRY Shopping; Practicing Death Robert McDowell Full Text The Swifts Nina Bogin Full Text Sestina on Six Words by Michael Peterson John Philip Drury Full Text Like Mowing the Grass; Annunciation Triptych Bruce Beasley Full Text The Auction Barbara Craig Adams Full Text Lenape Names in Philadelphia; Gonzalez Grocery David Livewell Full Text The Attic Brian Swann Full Text Little Collage; Breakwater Rock Bruce Lawder Full Text Living Situation on Thomes Street Michele Herman Full Text Reconstructed Sapphic Fragment 24C Wendy Drexler Full Text Clearing Brush Robert Cording Full Text After Snow; "Tell It Slant" David Hamilton Full Text ARTS CHRONICLES At the Galleries Karen Wilkin Full Text The Ubiquity of Sondheim Erick Neher Full Text Giuseppe Verdi on the First Crusade: Italian Opera and Religious Warfare in the Middle East Larry Wolff Full Text Film Chronicle Brooke Allen Full Text BOOK REVIEWS Life of a Laureate Mark Jarman Full Text The Mirror of Poetry Robert Archambeau Full Text Achilles Hath the Mighty Hector Slain Bruce Whiteman Full Text Lord Byron—Seven Takes David Mason Full Text Harvest and Reflection Cary Holladay Full Text COMMENT The Imaginary Operagoer: A Memoir Dana Gioia Full Text NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS Notes on Contributors Full Text Obituary Full Text