In this Issue

Table of Contents

I Will Not Talk in Class

Bobby C. Rogers
p. 523
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Adrienne Rich, and: Transfixed

Alice Friman
pp. 524-525
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Water and Oil

Michael Knight
pp. 527-542
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The Subjunctive, and: The Field, and: February

Margaree Little
pp. 543-545
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The Harbor

Brian Brodeur
pp. 546-547
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The Living Room Store

Caitlin Hayes
pp. 548-556
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The Creation

Jeanne Murray Walker
p. 557
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Twelve Jesus Night-Lights

Barbara Hamby
pp. 558-559
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Indignities

Brendan Galvin
pp. 560-561
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Marla

Jerome Charyn
pp. 562-574
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First Practice

Thomas Reiter
p. 575
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In Koine Greek

Lynn Domina
pp. 576-577
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To the Stars through Difficulties

Christina Olson
pp. 578-579
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The Gap Year

Lori Ostlund
pp. 580-600
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Prism

Susan Ludvigson
p. 601
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The Would-Be Whale Eater

Miller Mantooth
pp. 602-603
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Body Politic: To Ezra Pound in Purgatory

David Wojahn
pp. 604-613
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public-space art

Momo
pp. 614-622
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This Universal Contraption, and: Indigo Bunting

Kelly Cherry
pp. 623-624
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Three Poems

Cathryn Essinger
p. 625
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A Visit

William Virgil Davis
pp. 626-627
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Vainglory

Maggie Shipstead
pp. 628-643
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KO, and: Gabriel’s Poems

Gary Gildner
pp. 644-646
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Lapis Lazuli

Peter Cooley
p. 647
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Room for Rent

Piotr Florczyk
pp. 648-649
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[The man said starless], and: [It happened]

Michael C. Peterson
pp. 650-651
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John Updike Writes Like a Girl

Barb Johnson
pp. 656-660
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The Last Word: On Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov

Ramona Ausubel
pp. 661-664
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Is It Real?: On Shirley Jackson’s We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Marisa Silver
pp. 665-667
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“A Veritable Angel of Mercy”: The Problem of Nurse Ratched in Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

Manuel Muñoz
pp. 668-671
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Consider the Marshmallow: Cassandra at the Wedding and the Boyle’s Law Novel

Chris Bachelder
pp. 672-676
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According to Ibid

Gary Fincke
p. 677
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Receiver, and: Saint Sebastian

Bruce Bond
pp. 678-679
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Anno Domini 2004, and: My Sister Tells Me Her Prayer about the World of Men

Martin Lammon
pp. 680-681
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A Real Marriage

Marian Crotty
pp. 682-691
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October 30, 1938

Floyd Skloot
pp. 692-693
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Ars Poetica

Dan Albergotti
pp. 694-695
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Wildflowers, and: November Trees, and: Endgame in August

Robert Gibb
pp. 696-700
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Boars

Jane Delury
pp. 701-703
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Fish and Game

John Surowiecki
p. 704
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Lunch at the Brew Moon, and: The Bad Singers of San Miguel de Allende, and: The Afterlife

Alan Feldman
pp. 705-709
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Contributors

pp. v-x
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Note

p. xi
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Browsers’ Prize: An Introduction to the National Book Award 1963, Revisited

Chris Bachelder
pp. 652-655
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