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  1. Dew litters this lawn with stars
  2. H. L. Hix
  3. p. 1
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  1. Heart of the Octopus
  2. Jonathan Veach
  3. pp. 2-3
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  1. The Apocalypse Comes to Coal Country
  2. Corey Miller
  3. p. 4
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  1. Choose Your Own Adventure
  2. Corey Miller
  3. pp. 5-6
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  1. Natasha
  2. Nick Lantz
  3. p. 7
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  1. Judas Horse
  2. Nick Lantz
  3. p. 8
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  1. Houses
  2. Ed Skoog
  3. p. 9
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  1. On the Ghost Ship Lollipop
  2. Ed Skoog
  3. p. 10
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  1. As the Water Rose
  2. Edmund Sandoval
  3. pp. 11-18
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  1. There Are Bright Signs in the Crystal Ball—I’d Say Yes
  2. Whittney Jones
  3. p. 19
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  1. Caddo River Elegy
  2. Joe Wilkins
  3. pp. 20-21
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  1. Jesus Walks in Blue above Louisiana
  2. Jay Udall
  3. p. 22
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  1. Blessing of the Beasts
  2. Jay Udall
  3. p. 23
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  1. Between Experiments
  2. Brent Goodman
  3. p. 24
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  1. Twenty-One Titles for a Revenge Poem
  2. Alan Michael Parker
  3. p. 25
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  1. The Novelist and the Short Story Writer
  2. Douglas Trevor
  3. pp. 26-44
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  1. Like Adrian Dantley
  2. Adrian Matejka
  3. p. 45
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  1. Like Emily Dickinson
  2. Adrian Matejka
  3. p. 46
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  1. The Governor in Love
  2. Amorak Huey
  3. p. 47
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  1. Survivor
  2. Kathryn Levy
  3. p. 48
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  1. Entries from The Lover’s Field Guide
  2. Sandra Beasley
  3. pp. 49-50
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  1. Bad Flower
  2. Verónica Reyes
  3. p. 51
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  1. Imaginary Vacation Scenario #2
  2. Catherine Pierce
  3. p. 52
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  1. True Story
  2. Catherine Pierce
  3. p. 53
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  1. In Transit
  2. Ben Merriman
  3. pp. 54-56
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  1. Questions for Pablo
  2. William O’Daly
  3. pp. 57-58
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  1. The Material Etymologies of Cecilia Vicuña: Art, Sculpture, and Poetic Communities
  2. José Felipe Alvergue
  3. pp. 59-96
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  1. Hallucination and Madness: The Impact of Censorship on Mo Yan’s Writing
  2. Wang Jinghui
  3. pp. 97-110
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  1. The Novel at the World Scale: (on David Palumbo-Liu, Bruce Robbins, and Nirvana Tanoukhi, eds., Immanuel Wallerstein and the Problem of the World: System, Scale, Culture [2011]; Jon Hegglund, World Views: Metageographies of Modernist Fiction [2012]; John Marx, Geopolitics and the Anglophone Novel, 1890–2011 [2012]; and Elizabeth Anker, Fictions of Dignity: Embodying Human Rights in World Literature [2012])
  2. Madigan Haley
  3. pp. 111-125
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  1. “Ask Me If I Care”: Work, Injustice, and Other People’s Happiness: (on Sara Ahmed, The Promise of Happiness [2010])
  2. Lisa Fluet
  3. pp. 126-150
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  1. Old Left, New Class: Literary Anxiety in the Consumers’ Republic: (on Stephen Schryer, Fantasies of the New Class: Ideologies of Professionalism in Post–World War II American Fiction [2011]; Michael Szalay, Hip Figures: A Literary History of the Democratic Party [2012]; and Alan M. Wald, American Night: The Literary Left in the Era of the Cold War [2012])
  2. Joseph Darda
  3. pp. 151-160
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  1. Books Received
  3. p. 161
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  1. Contributors
  3. pp. 162-165
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