In this Issue

Table of Contents

A Note of Gratitude

Stephen Donadio
pp. 6-7
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ner.2012.a475789
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Poetry

Edward Hopper’s Office in a Small City

Victoria Chang
p. 8
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Now You Must Go Wherever You Wish

Carl Phillips
p. 14
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Blizzard

Carl Phillips
p. 15
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Border Song

Carl Phillips
p. 16
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String Theory

John Lundberg
pp. 23-24
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A Brief History of Rejection—

Beverly Burch
p. 42
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On Writing

Adrienne Su
p. 43
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Contentment

Adrienne Su
p. 44
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It’s the Boat That Haunts You

Matthew Nienow
p. 60
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Ode to the Slick

Matthew Nienow
p. 61
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Elegy for a Carpenter’s Carpenter

Debora Greger
p. 80
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To a Redbud

Debora Greger
p. 81
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Mud

Jeff Friedman
p. 97
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Dead Letter Office

Valerie Wohlfeld
p. 106
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Father, Son

C. L. O’Dell
p. 121
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After Reading the Bible

C. L. O’Dell
p. 122
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Primer

Caleb Curtiss
p. 166
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Poem with You Drinking a Cup of Coffee

Caleb Curtiss
p. 167
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In Arabic

Shara Lessley
pp. 197-198
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Fiction

Of the Revolution

Brock Clarke
pp. 9-13
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The Finest Medical Attention

Christine Sneed
pp. 45-59
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Plain Tales from the Hills

Castle Freeman Jr.
pp. 88-96
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You Can’t Be Too Careful

Jane Ratcliffe
pp. 107-120
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At the Dark End of the Street

William Gilson
pp. 123-165
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Reflections

Songs and Calls of the Human Species

Karen Holmberg
pp. 17-22
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Tea

Francis-Noël Thomas
pp. 82-87
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Cultural History

How the Book of Changes Arrived in the West

Richard J. Smith
pp. 25-41
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ner.2012.a475797
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Literary Lives

Hemingway, Faulkner and the Clash of Reputations

Joseph Fruscione
pp. 62-79
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ner.2012.a475804
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Testimonies

Keeper of the Flame

Matthew Vollmer
pp. 98-105
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The Ding Tank

Paul Plagens
pp. 183-196
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Translations

Café Chats

Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Benjamin Ehrlich
pp. 168-182
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Rediscoveries

Rome: First Impressions

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, A. J. Morrison
pp. 199-202
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ner.2012.a475821
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Contributors’ Notes

pp. 203-206
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