Table of Contents: June 2009

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Cover art: Kathy Osborn, “Good Egg,” 2004.

AUTHOR TITLE
Averill Curdy Hardware
To the voice of the retired warden of Huntsville Prison (Texas death chamber)
Song & Error
Michael Hofmann Cricket
Portrait d’une Femme
Stephen Edgar The Building of Light
Auspices
Rae Armantrout Procedures
Eyes
Advent
Timothy Murphy Agape
Disenchantment Bay
P. K. Page Cullen in the Afterlife
Ange Mlinko Win-Win
Kouign Amann
W. S. Di Piero Big City Speech
Sales
Having My Cards Read
A.E. Stallings Tulips
The Mother’s Loathing of Balloons
D. Nurkse A Marriage in the Dolomites
The Simulacra
Donald Revell “Unreal precision of the houses...”
“Some motionless conflict in the sky...”
“Birds small enough...”
COMMENT
Tom Sleigh Sex, Drugs, and Thom Gunn
The life and work of a true servant of eros.
Robert Archambeau Storming the Museum of Irrelevance
Has the manifesto outlived its usefulness?
Joel Brouwer All This Scratching and Erasing
A critical look at new prose from William Logan, Fanny Howe, and W.S. Di Piero.