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  • Index Volume CXX, 2012

Fiction

Bontly, Thomas .................... Lightning on the Hill 179
Chappell, Fred ................ Things Beyond Us 1
Howell, Ross ........................ In the Traces 196
Jacobs, Richard .................... Mending Fences 210
Schirmer, Robert .................... Enchantments 229
Smith, Austin .................... The Black Blanket 249
Trevor, William .................... Giotto's Angels 357
Walling, Mark ........................ Bois d'Arc 262

Poetry

Behm, Richard H. ......... Autumnal Dark and Dawn (four poems) 279
Bense, Robert ................ In Full Throat of Life (three poems) 282
Boyers, Peg ........................ For Mrs. Sullivan 19
Brosman, Catharine ............... Savage Scenarios of Love (two poems) 285
Collins, Billy ............... One Page at a Time (two poems) 633
Cording, Robert ..................... Endings (two poems) 21
Greene, Jonathan ..................... Back-Page Notice 635
Grennan, Eamon .................... Apparitions 289
Harmon, William .................... The Laxness Monster 370
Howard, Ben .................... Firewood and Ashes 24
Junkins, Donald .................... Five Poems 27
Kennedy, X. J. ........................ Self-Publishing 632
Four Poems 371
Leamon, Warren .................... The Cold Fields of November (five poems) 30
Malin, Stephen ............... Altars of the Eye (two poems) 34
McNair, Wesley .................... Finding the Way (two poems) 375
Moore, John Rees ............... Three Irish Artists (three poems) 36
Rossiter, Sarah ................ Tears of Grief, Tears of Joy (two poems) 38
Sternlieb, Barry .................... Sole Impression 630
Life Against the Heavens (two poems) 290
Wakefield, Kathleen .................. Small Things (two poems) 41
Welch, Don ........................ Combustible Thoughts, Ethereal Possibilities (three poems) 43

Esays

Benson, Robert ........................ Wedding the Wild Particular 292
Berthoff, Ann E. ............... Kindred Spirits: Kathleen Raine and Margaret Fay Shaw 91
Bornstein, George .................... W. B. Yeats's Poetry of Aging 46
Buffington, Robert .................. A Great Seizure of Poems 62 [End Page 675]
Burroughs, Franklin .................. For What Blood Was Worth 419
Dillingham, William B. .................... Kipling, W. E. Henley, St. Paul, and Discipleship 403
Hart, Henry .................... Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes: A Complex Friendship 76
T. S. Eliot's Autobiographical Cats 379
Keithley, George .................. Summer Solstice 304
Lacy, Robert .................. Trout Therapy 329
O'Mara, Richard .................. Brothers 450
Swan, Gladys .................... The Tonic of the Wilderness 314
Yezzi, David .................... Cassandra at the Evening Window: Louise Glück's Dark Visions 103

The State of Leters

Brosman, Catharine Savage .......... Four Modes of Book Collecting 537
Clabough, Casey ...................... A Father's Son: George Garrett and the Art of Dying 124
Clark, William Bedford ...... The Letterly Life of Robert Penn Warren 598
Donaldson, Scott .................... Great Editing: A Beginner's Luck 592
Goldsmith, Maurice L. .................. Adios, Lash LaRue 475
Gorra, Michael .................... The Library of America at Thirty 545
Harmon, William .................... Martin Gardner, 1914-2010 134
Heddendorf, David .................... Reading at Whim: Beyond Moby-Dick 584
Lacy, Robert .......................... When Country Was Country 151
Saturdays at the Paramount 483
Macfie, Pamela .................... Royston Shakespearean Spectacles in London and Stratford 118
Malchodi, Marie .................................... All That Remains 521
Masters, Hilary .............................. Amelia Earhart's Last Landing 471
McDonough, Christopher ............... The Red and the Green: James Loeb and his Classical Library 553
Moseley, Merritt ........... Two Curious Instances of Self-Publishing 615
Mott, Michael ...................... Filling Bookshelves for a Lifetime 528
Moulton, Elizabeth .................... Remembering Emmy 644
Murray, John A. .................... A Personal Remembrance of John Haines (1924-2011) 129
Parotti, Phillip ...................... Adventures with Friends of the Library 569
Potter, Dawn ...................... Ode to My Son's Audiobooks 589
Not Writing the Poem 146
Robinson, Fred C. .................... What Is a Rare Book? 513
Rovit, Earl ............................................ Kosta 138
Confessions of a Renter 489
Strout, Cushing ....................................................... Crisis in Camelot: Mark Twain and the Idea of Progress 336
Terzian, Philip .................... A Literary Pilgrimage: Max Beerbohm 576 [End Page 676]
Toll, Seymour I. .................... Shakespeare on the Left Bank 558
Watson, George .................... Kermode on Kermode 636
Wentworth, Richard ............. My Forty Years at University Presses 607
West, James L. W., III ........... The Divergent Paths of British and American Publishing 503
Yoder, Edwin M., Jr. .................... Annals of Book Reviewing 622

Arts and Leters

Banerjee, A. .................... Oxford Companions 658
Engel, William E. ........... A Most Extravagant Art 172
Fraser, Russell .................... Johnson's Lives of the Poets 157
Moseley, Merritt ............... The Man Booker Prize for 2011 341
O'Mara, Richard ............... Saving the Book 646
Patterson, W. Brown .................... The King James Bible in Cultural Context 650
Pickering, Sam ................................... Field Notes 347
Poe, Harry Lee ............... C. S. Lewis at One Hundred 494
Stone, Donald .................... Turner the Monarch 167
Strout, Cushing .................... The Singular Affair of the Two Companions 668
Weber, Myles .................... An Odd Psychological Type 498

Books Reviewed

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