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Editor’s Note

  1. Editor’s Note
  2. Stephen Donadio
  3. pp. 8-10
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ner.2014.0031
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Poetry

  1. Okaloosa
  2. Derrick Austin
  3. pp. 11-12
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ner.2014.0040
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  1. What Are We Not For, and The Black Umbrella
  2. Tommye Blount
  3. pp. 18-20
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ner.2014.0049
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  1. What David Taught & Where He Taught It
  2. G. C. Waldrep
  3. p. 30
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ner.2014.0002
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  1. “When It Is Over It Will Be Over”, and Saturdays at Reynolds Work Release
  2. Paisley Rekdal
  3. pp. 38-41
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ner.2014.0011
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  1. Pomegranate Queen
  2. John Poch
  3. p. 48
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ner.2014.0019
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  1. The Bourbon Baudelaire: A Set of Variations
  2. John Kinsella
  3. pp. 49-50
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ner.2014.0027
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  1. Memory in Plain English
  2. Cate Marvin
  3. pp. 64-65
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ner.2014.0036
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  1. The Two Times I Loved You Most on a Farm, and Five Letters Returned to Sender
  2. Aimee Nezhukumatathil
  3. pp. 66-67
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ner.2014.0045
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  1. The Chain
  2. Sarah Murphy
  3. p. 85
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ner.2014.0054
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  1. November
  2. Christopher Brookhouse
  3. p. 86
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ner.2014.0007
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  1. Janiculum Staircase, and Santa Cecilia
  2. Karl Kirchwey
  3. pp. 314-316
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ner.2014.0016
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  1. Calculations: A Love Poem
  2. Gary Fincke
  3. p. 333
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ner.2014.0024
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  1. Nothing Is the Thin Wall
  2. Martha Rhodes
  3. p. 339
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ner.2014.0033
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  1. In Full Velvet
  2. Jenny Johnson
  3. pp. 356-359
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ner.2014.0042
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  1. I Wear the Work Upon My Clothes
  2. Matthew Nienow
  3. p. 360
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ner.2014.0051
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  1. Centering
  2. Craig Morgan Teicher
  3. pp. 370-371
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ner.2014.0004
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Fiction

  1. Who’s Stopping You?
  2. Castle Freeman Jr.
  3. pp. 13-17
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ner.2014.0013
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  1. Studies in Composition
  2. Leslie Bazzett
  3. pp. 21-29
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ner.2014.0021
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  1. Sloth
  2. Charles Baxter
  3. pp. 31-37
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ner.2014.0029
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  1. Found by Thee
  2. Nick Wolven
  3. pp. 51-63
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ner.2014.0038
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  1. Oido Beach
  2. Young Rader
  3. pp. 68-84
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ner.2014.0047
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  1. Visit to the Beach
  2. Andrew Touhy
  3. pp. 372-373
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ner.2014.0000
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Provocations

  1. The Favored Language of the Apparatchik: A Contemporary Sampler
  2. Steven Poole
  3. pp. 42-47
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ner.2014.0009
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  1. Kindle 451
  2. Jeff Staiger
  3. pp. 340-355
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ner.2014.0018
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Literary Lives

  1. Reading Rilke with Denise Levertov
  2. Barbara Hyams
  3. pp. 317-332
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ner.2014.0026
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  1. The Image Factory
  2. Rick Barot
  3. pp. 361-369
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ner.2014.0035
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Observations

  1. Evening, All
  2. Merritt Moseley
  3. pp. 334-338
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ner.2014.0044
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Rediscoveries

  1. The Dream World
  2. Helen Keller
  3. pp. 374-379
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ner.2014.0053
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The Russian Presence

Editor’s Note

  1. The Russian Presence
  3. p. 87
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ner.2014.0006
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Poetry

  1. Again I visited . . .
  2. Alexander Pushkin, Alyssa Dinega Gillespie
  3. pp. 88-89
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ner.2014.0015
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  1. Devillet
  2. Zinaida Nikolaevna Gippius, Robert Chandler
  3. pp. 127-128
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ner.2014.0023
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  1. Poem No. 78, and Poem No. 129
  2. Osip Mandelstam, Joan Aleshire
  3. pp. 129-130
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ner.2014.0032
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  1. He Who Had Found a Horseshoe
  2. Osip Mandelstam, Alex Cigale
  3. pp. 131-133
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ner.2014.0056
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  1. Séance, and from the Cycle “Seventeenth”
  2. Vladimir Narbut, Alex Cigale
  3. pp. 134-137
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ner.2014.0041
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  1. Black as the pupil...
  2. Marina Tsvetaeva, Robert Chandler
  3. p. 143
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ner.2014.0050
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  1. Where does such tenderness...
  2. Marina Tsvetaeva, Joan Aleshire
  3. p. 144
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ner.2014.0057
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  1. from The Two
  2. Marina Tsvetaeva, Alyssa Dinega Gillespie
  3. p. 145
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ner.2014.0058
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  1. They’ve cut a hole..., and I pardon all your sins...
  2. Sofia Yakovlevna Parnok, Robert Chandler
  3. p. 146
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ner.2014.0003
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  1. The Jolt
  2. Anna Semyonovna Prismanova, Boris Dralyuk
  3. p. 147
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ner.2014.0012
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  1. Saturday, June 21, 1941 and Ignatevsky Forest, and Beautiful Day
  2. Arseny Tarkovsky, Philip Metres, Dimitri Psurtsev
  3. pp. 157-159
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ner.2014.0020
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  1. Goodbye to Friends
  2. Nikolay Alexeyevich Zabolotsky, Robert Chandler
  3. p. 160
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ner.2014.0028
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  1. The Feast, and Old Women, and Beads
  2. Olga Sedakova, Stephanie Sandler
  3. pp. 242-244
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ner.2014.0037
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  1. Poet and Crowd
  2. Lev Rubinstein, Philip Metres, Tatiana Tulchinsky
  3. pp. 259-266
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ner.2014.0046
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  1. Let’s Go to Morocco, and Trains
  2. Anzhelina Polonskaya, Andrew Wachtel
  3. pp. 312-313
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ner.2014.0055
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Fiction

  1. Three Scenes from Crime and Punishment
  2. Fyodor Dostoevsky, Michael R. Katz
  3. pp. 90-99
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ner.2014.0008
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  1. Verochka, and Ionych
  2. Anton Chekhov, Rosamund Bartlett
  3. pp. 100-126
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ner.2014.0017
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  1. Lifeless Beast
  2. Teffi, Robert Chandler, Elizabeth Chandler
  3. pp. 138-142
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ner.2014.0025
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  1. Nabokov’s Inkblot
  2. Mikhail Shishkin, Mariya Bashkatova
  3. pp. 267-275
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ner.2014.0034
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  1. Fardwor, Ruissa! A Fantastical Tale from Putin’s Russia
  2. Oleg Kashin, Will Evans, Pasha Mrachek
  3. pp. 294-311
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ner.2014.0043
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  1. The Cherepanova Sisters
  2. Olga Slavnikova, Marian Schwartz
  3. pp. 276-293
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ner.2014.0052
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Revaluations

  1. “To Overcome Evil”: Andrey Platonov and the Moscow Show Trials
  2. Robert Chandler
  3. pp. 148-156
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ner.2014.0005
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Cultural History

  1. Lee Harvey Oswald Arrives in the USSR
  2. Peter Savodnik
  3. pp. 161-169
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ner.2014.0014
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  1. The Trial of Joseph Brodsky
  2. Frida Vigdorova, Michael R. Katz
  3. pp. 183-207
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ner.2014.0022
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  1. From Babel to Pentecost (and Back Again): The World After the Wall Came Down
  2. David Edgar
  3. pp. 245-256
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ner.2014.0030
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Literary Lives

  1. Meetings with Anna Akhmatova
  2. Tomas Venclova, Ellen Hinsey
  3. pp. 170-182
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ner.2014.0039
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Film

  1. Andrey Tarkovsky, Russian Experience, and the Poetry of Cinema
  2. P. Adams Sitney
  3. pp. 208-241
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ner.2014.0048
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Provocations

  1. Russian Slang, circa 1995
  2. Vladimir Shlyakhov, Eve Adler
  3. pp. 257-258
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ner.2014.0001
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  1. Contributors’ Notes
  3. pp. 380-391
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ner.2014.0010
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Beginning with the next issue, the editorial responsibility for NER will be assumed by Carolyn Kuebler, and in my "Editor's Note" (page 8) I have indicated my deep indebtedness to her and to C. Dale Young, our longtime poetry editor. At this moment of transition, I also want to express my gratitude for the demanding example set by the editors who preceded me—especially Sydney Lea, who with Jay Parini was one of the founding editors of the magazine in 1978. Jessica Dineen, the first managing editor I had the good fortune to work with, instantly understood everything that needed to be done and how to do it; her fine work has been carried on by those who succeeded her, Jodee Stanley and—for almost ten years now—Carolyn Kuebler. Thanks, too, to Toni Best, who was for many years Office Manager at NER, a position now occupied by Lexa deCourval. In addition, I want to acknowledge the efforts of our team of editorial Readers—Jennifer Bates, Janice Obuchowski, and J. M. Tyree, in particular—who have maintained a close association with the magazine and continue to provide us with invaluable assistance in identifying work of the highest quality for publication in our pages. And finally, thanks from all of us to Middlebury College and President Ronald Liebowitz, and to our many donors, for their continuing commitment and indispensable support.

—S.D.